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She had known Macey, as he called himself, only a fortnight. He had been introduced to her at a sort of Bohemian gathering, had talked to her, direct, as she liked a man to talk. He had seen her home that night, had asked to call, and on the other nights had taken her to the theater and to supper. Delicately unconsciously, a bond of friendship had grown up between them.
You look a good deal pulled down, though you're not an old man, are you?" "Fifty-five, as near as I can say, sir," said Silas. "Oh, why, you may live thirty years longer look at old Macey! And that money on the table, after all, is but little.
As he was studying it out, Starbuck took a long cutting-spade pole, and with his knife slightly split the end, to insert the letter there, and in that way, hand it to the boat, without its coming any closer to the ship. Meantime, Ahab holding the letter, muttered, "Mr. Har yes, Mr. Harry Macey, Ship Jeroboam; why it's Macey, and he's dead!"
Macey, when Mr. Macey suddenly cried our: "The signal! Nobody has thought of the signal!" We knew of no signal, so we could not have thought of it. "What signal may you mean, sir?" says Sergeant Drooce, looking sharp at him. "There is a pile of wood upon the Signal Hill. If it could be lighted which never has been done yet it would be a signal of distress to the mainland."
Drumlow, and then I out wi' everything, but respectful, as I allays did. And he made light on it, and he says, "Pooh, pooh, Macey, make yourself easy," he says; "it's neither the meaning nor the words it's the regester does it that's the glue."
And for quiet humour modern literature has few happier scenes than the fireside at the "Rainbow," with Macey and Winthrop, the butcher and the farrier, over their pipes and their hot potations, and the quarrel about "seeing ghos'es," about smelling them!
Some one brought the janitor of the church. A hardware dealer near by came along with two coils of rope, which he thought might be handy. Mr. Macey went inside with the janitor and the two chums. A score or two more would have followed, but the janitor called to Herr Schimmelpodt to bar the way, which the big German readily did.
"There's another wants to try it," said Officer Kiely to Officer Macey. "I have my mind he'll get his fill," returned the latter, quietly. They had been in strikes before. The barn at which Hurstwood applied was exceedingly short-handed, and was being operated practically by three men as directors.
Macey made another effort to double the reward, but was overruled. So young Prescott received the two hundred and fifty dollars in crisp, new bills, and as promptly turned half of the sum over to his chum. Now that it was safely over with, it had not been a bad morning's work! Dick Begins To Feel Old
"There's been some mistake here." "Newspaper pictures seldom look like the person they represent," asserted Lawrence Macey nonchalantly. Constance Dunlap looked squarely at the man opposite her at the table, oblivious to the surroundings. It was a brilliant sight in the great after-theater rendezvous, the beautiful faces and gowns, the exquisite music, the bright lights and the gayety.
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