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"You're always off in the mornings when there's work to be done," replied Abel, "but for heaven's sake, bring home a string of hares to put ma into a better humour. She whets her tongue on me and I'll be hanged if it's right." "She never used to do it till you went over to Mr. Mullen's church and fell in love with Molly Merryweather.
Our reserve of bullion is much larger at present than is usually kept in a single branch office, and the directors have had misgivings upon the subject." "Which were very well justified," observed Holmes. "And now it is time that we arranged our little plans. I expect that within an hour matters will come to a head. In the meantime, Mr. Merryweather, we must put the screen over that dark lantern."
It was a month after the return of Jacob and his party from the diggings that Frank, Jacob, and Captain Merryweather met on board the Sabrina at Port Adelaide. "So, Jacob, my boy," cried the captain; "why, how you're grown! Colonial life agrees with you. I should hardly have known you. And you're coming home in the old ship.
You, of course, have brothers and sisters, and that is the best of all, isn't it?" There was no resisting Hildegarde's smile; the young Merryweather wavered, smiled, smiled again, and in five minutes they were all seated together, and chatting away like old friends.
"Yes, I suppose I like you a little but all men are the same mother used always to tell me so." Poor distraught Janet Merryweather! There were times when he was seized with a fierce impatience of her, for it seemed to him that her ghost stood, like the angel with the drawn sword, before the closed gates of his paradise.
And how could our poor Hilda know that the Merryweather obstinacy was roused, and that Roger meant to save her and himself, and the canoe, too, if he had to swim across the lake to do it? But now she heard him cry out, in a joyful tone: "Courage, little girl! here we are, all right!" Next moment, oh, joy! oh, wonder past belief! she felt the ground beneath her feet.
The great shocks of thunder rolled heavily, but still farther and farther away. The storm was moving off across the lake, and one thought was in the hearts of all the birch canoe. How was it with those two, alone in that frail boat in the wild tempest? It seemed hours that they sat there, waiting and listening. At length "It is lighter now," said Mr. Merryweather.
Bell and her mother drew closer together, and Kitty nestled down between them, and held a hand of each, "to keep herself safe." "If the lightning strikes the camp, what shall we do?" asked Willy. "I think we shall be very likely to keep still!" said his father, dryly. "Miles, how can you?" said Mrs. Merryweather. "I wonder you can joke, with those two children out in the canoe in this horror!"
They had not long left the hotel, and were passing along a back street on their way to the outfitter's, when a man came hastily out of a low public-house, and ran rather roughly against Captain Merryweather. "Halloa, my friend," cried the sailor, "have a care; you should keep a brighter look-out. You've run me down, and might have carried away a spar or two."
Charley remarked, though he was anxiously studying the behavior of the Mary Rebecca, which was being driven under far more canvas than she was rightly able to carry. "Next stop is Antioch!" announced the cheerful sailor, after the manner of a railway conductor. "And next comes Merryweather!" "Come here, quick," Charley said to me.
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