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Macey, across the width of the enclosure, facing that way and having their backs towards the gate, in order that they might watch the walls and prevent our being taken by surprise. Then there was a space of eight or ten feet deep, in which the spare arms were, and in which Miss Maryon and Mrs.
Then there were oysters in every variety silver dishes containing them stewed, their fragrant macey odour wafting itself upward, and causing watery sensations about the mouth. Waiters were constantly rushing into the room, bringing dishes of them fried so richly brown, so smoking hot, that no man with a heart in his bosom could possibly refuse them.
"'There's the article, he said, bringing his hand down emphatically upon it. 'The cuss was hard up. Luck had gone agin him and he had lost every cent he had. Jem Macey was a-dealin' and Cazot didn't seem to grasp that fact, but kept bettin' heavy. You see, young feller, ye ain't over likely to win at cards when yer playin' agin the dealer.
"Prescott, have you any idea of the strength of the wind up there?" demanded the real estate man. "It's blowing great guns up there!" "Get some one to toss the coin, and either you or I call," insisted Darrin. Some one told Mrs. Macey what was being proposed. "Oh, stop them!" she cried, leaning forward from the runabout. "Boys, boys! Don't do anything wildly rash like that!
Macey the teamster pointed out the barely visible bit of black fluttering a hundred and sixty feet above the pavement. "Now how about the reward, Mr. Macey?" demanded the teamster. "That will be paid you, if you return the scarf to Mrs. Macey," replied the real estate man dryly. The teamster's jaw dropped. For the uppermost eighteen feet of the spire consisted of a stout flagpole.
Macey now started an objection to his proposing himself as a deputy-constable; for that oracular old gentleman, claiming to know the law, stated, as a fact delivered to him by his father, that no doctor could be a constable. "And you're a doctor, I reckon, though you're only a cow-doctor for a fly's a fly, though it may be a hoss-fly," concluded Mr.
Macey, for example, coming one evening expressly to let Silas know that recent events had given him the advantage of standing more favourably in the opinion of a man whose judgment was not formed lightly, opened the conversation by saying, as soon as he had seated himself and adjusted his thumbs "Come, Master Marner, why, you've no call to sit a-moaning.
Macey, who had been set in his arm-chair outside his own door, would expect some special notice as they passed, since he was too old to be at the wedding-feast. "Mr. Macey's looking for a word from us," said Dolly; "he'll be hurt if we pass him and say nothing and him so racked with rheumatiz." So they turned aside to shake hands with the old man.
Those, I secured as well as they could be secured in a few seconds by one pair of hands, and so ran to that part of the building where Miss Maryon lived. I called to her loudly by her name until she answered. I then called loudly all the names I knew Mrs. Macey, Mrs. Venning, Mr. and Mrs. Fisher, even Mr. and Mrs. Pordage. Then I called out, "All you gentlemen here, get up and defend the place!
Macey, now a very feeble old man of fourscore and six, never seen except in his chimney-corner or sitting in the sunshine at his door-sill, was of opinion that when a man had done what Silas had done by an orphan child, it was a sign that his money would come to light again, or leastwise that the robber would be made to answer for it for, as Mr.
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