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Smith, mournfully, "I'll 'ave that gal of Kybird's scratching my eyes out or p'r'aps sticking a hat-pin into me. I had that once; the longest hat-pin that ever was made, I should think." He shook his head over the perils of his calling, and then, after another glance at the clock, withdrew to the kitchen with his bag, leaving Mr.
It was a week after Mr. Kybird's visit to the alley that he went, as usual, for a stroll up and down the High Street. The evening was deepening, and some of the shops had already lit up, as Mr. Silk, with his face against the window-pane, tried in vain to penetrate the obscurity of Mr. Kybird's shop.
He had a dim feeling that, having been the cause of Miss Kybird's losing one young man, the most elementary notions of chivalry demanded that he should furnish her with another. And this idea was clearly uppermost in the minds of her parents. He looked over at Amelia and with characteristic philosophy accepted the position. "We shall be the handsomest couple in Sunwich," he said, simply.
Kybird's extensive stock, he paid a visit to Jem Hardy to talk over old times and discuss the future. "You ought to make friends with your father," said the latter; "it only wants a little common sense and mutual forbearance." "That's all," said Nugent; "sounds easy enough, doesn't it? No, all he wants is for me to clear out of Sunwich, and I'm not going to until it pleases me, at any rate.
He had a dim feeling that, having been the cause of Miss Kybird's losing one young man, the most elementary notions of chivalry demanded that he should furnish her with another. And this idea was clearly uppermost in the minds of her parents. He looked over at Amelia and with characteristic philosophy accepted the position. "We shall be the handsomest couple in Sunwich," he said, simply.
Do you remember how you used to knock me about?" "Come round to my place and have a chat," said Hardy. Jack shook his head. "They're expecting me in to tea," he said, with a nod in the direction of Mr. Kybird's, "and honest waterside labourers who earn their bread by the sweat of their brow when the foreman is looking do not frequent the society of the upper classes."
"Little trip!" repeated the other; "you call a whaling cruise a little trip?" "No, no, sir," said Mr. Smith, in a shocked voice, "I ain't so bad as that; I've got some 'art, I hope. He's just gone for a little trip with 'is old pal Hardy on the Conqueror. Kybird's idea it was." "Don't you know it's punishable?" demanded the shipbroker, recovering. Mr. Smith shook his head and became serious.
He drew back as they entered and, raising his voice above Miss Kybird's, began to explain his action. "Teddy, I'm ashamed of you," said Mr. Kybird, shaking his head. "A little joke like that; a little innercent joke." "If it 'ad been a darning-needle now " began Mrs. Kybird. "All right," said the desperate Mr. Silk, "'ave it your own way. Let 'Melia marry 'im I don't care -I give 'er up."
Remittances which had reached him from his sister and aunt had been promptly returned, and he was indebted to the amiable Mr. Kybird for the bare necessaries of life. In these circumstances a warm feeling of gratitude towards the family closed his eyes to their obvious shortcomings. He even obtained work down at the harbour through a friend of Mr. Kybird's.
"He doesn't like his name now," said Nugent, drawing his chair closer to Miss Kybird's, "and I don't wonder at it. What shall we call him? Job? What's that work you're doing? Why don't you get on with that fancy waistcoat you are doing for me?" Before Miss Kybird could deny all knowledge of the article in question her sorely tried swain created a diversion by rising.
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