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Someone produced one, and as her son shouted "Have with you, mother," Steadfast hastily asked Tom Oates to let Patience know that he was gone to see after Jephthah, and joined Ned Lakin and his mother.
"Good lord, professor," Ned Land answered me, "don't mention it! What did we do that's so praiseworthy? Not a thing. It was a question of simple arithmetic. Your life is worth more than ours. So we had to save it." "No, Ned," I replied, "it isn't worth more. Nobody could be better than a kind and generous man like yourself!" "All right, all right!" the Canadian repeated in embarrassment.
It's a question of principle a question that cuts to the bone of a fellow's life and character. A man must be true to what he believes to be right, mustn't he?" His voice was tender, wistful, pleading. The sweet, young face upturned to his caught his mood: "Yes, Ned." "I couldn't be a real man and do less, could I?" "No but I'm sorry" she paused and suddenly asked, "Your brother agrees with you?"
"Give me all your notes, Ned," said she, "and let me see whether I can make something of them; but first perhaps Miss Rolleston will empty her bag on the counter. Go back to your work a moment, for I know you have enough to do." The expert was secretly glad to be released from a case in which there were no materials; and so Helen escaped unobserved except by one of her own sex.
I know I can't talk the lingo as you can, and that so I add to your danger; still sometimes in danger two can help each other, and we have gone through so much together oh, Ned, don't propose that you should go alone."
"I'm thirsting for a breath of fresh air and to stretch myself. I'm a terrible one for walks, you know." "Not much riding here, Nellie;" walking on. "That's why I walk so. I can go from here right down to Lady Macquarie's Chair in under half-an-hour. Over two miles! Not bad, eh, Ned?" "That's a good enough record. Suppose we go down there now, Nellie, only none of your racing time for me.
These tanks are great, and there's nothing like 'em." "Oh, yes there is, Ned!" "There is!" cried Ned. "What do you mean?" "I mean there may be something like them soon." "There may? Say, Tom " "Now don't ask me a lot of questions, Ned, for I can't answer them.
Ned was glad of the chance to take the wheel, and he and Jerry changed places. They were proceeding at slow speed, the girls occasionally humming the chorus of a song, and the boys joining in when they knew the air. The beauty of the night, the fine boat, and delight of moving along with scarcely a sound, had them all under a sort of magic spell, and they felt they could thus go on forever.
Ned hoped his friends would rescue him, not so much that he minded being captured, as it was all in fun, but that he did not like the first year boys to play such a trick on the older pupils.
The boy accepted the post of salesman with alacrity, and Ned turned to his friend and seized his hand. "Barret," said he, in a low, earnest voice, "if I succeed in holding out, I own my salvation, under God, to you. I've tasted nothing but ginger-beer for many a long day, and I really believe that I have got my enemy down at last.
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