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When told to construe a passage read out not two minutes before by one of the upper boys, they knew nothing about it, and feared it was too hard for their overwrought capacities; and when pinned down where they sat to the acquirement of some short rule or passage, they explained sorrowfully that that had not been Mr Moss's method.
Albert Moss's familiarity so well, that when at length they departed, the last words were a parting whisper, 'Good morning, Miss Martindale. If we had known what we interrupted but ah! I have gone through those things so lately, that I know how to feel for you, and can keep your secret. 'There is no subject of secrecy that I know of, said Theodora, more coldly than ever. Hateful woman!
Along the track, from out of the hills, ran four unkempt human figures. They were rushing for the flag station, gesticulating as they came. In the loneliness of the spot there was only one interpretation of their attitude for the waiting man. Mr. Moss's voice rang out violently, and caught the echo of the hills. "What in hell ?" he shouted, raising the deadly Winchester swiftly to his shoulder.
"Of himself, miss, I know," sobbed Kate, "but, oh, I feel as if it was my own mother or my own baby, I don't know which." Elsie Moss's school was quite unlike her expectations, and her companions not at all like those of her eager dreams.
Moss's, and I have often sat near her in the services at the hospital chapel," he ended a little defiantly. The speech, save for its ring of half-boyish mortification, was suspicious, as if he were providing a loophole for escape in case Annie refused to indorse his assertion of mutual acquaintance.
If this was a sample of the sympathy he might expect at head-quarters, Moss's prognostications, after all, were not quite baseless. He made the best of his solitary dinner, and then sallied out in the dark to try to find the porter's lodge once more and rescue his luggage.
"Professional interests have to be considered," said Mr. Moss. "No doubt; my daughter does consider her professional interests every day when she practises for two hours." "That is excellent, and with such glorious effects! She has only now got the full use of her voice. My G ! what could she not do if she had the full run of Moss's Theatre!
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