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Out of the taxes, the major part of which is paid by the people of the outport districts in this Colony, the Government provides free medical aid in the Capital, presumably because those who have the spending of the money mostly reside there.
Gracious, how poky he was; she was glad that she wasn't dragging along at his side. He seemed bigger and rounder than usual. She heard the tap of his cane as he left the Common for Pleasant Street; then his feet moved and stopped, moved and stopped, up the steps of their house. She was sorry now that she hadn't known what an outport was, and determined to ask him to-morrow.
She was sure of several kinds of ports one they had after dinner, another indicated a certain side of a vessel, and still a third was Salem. But an outport Cronstadt, Cavite, what it really meant, what they were, had escaped her. She decided to risk an opinion.
In the beginning there were two companies of the Virginia adventurers, the one having its headquarters in London and the other in the western outport of Plymouth. Englishmen at that time used the name Virginia to designate the full sweep of the North American coast that lay above Spanish Florida.
He is a fine fellow who has been doing great work in this place, and I have actually been chosen to continue it during his absence of a few months. Mr. Jelliffe and he sent for me, a few days ago, after I returned from a trip to a near outport to see a sick woman, and asked me if I were willing to undertake it.
"Why, confound it " he paused and regarded her with a new doubt. "Laurel," he demanded, "what is an outport?" She had a distinct feeling of justifiable injury. A recognized part of the present system of examination was its strict limitation to questions made familiar by constant repetition; and this last was entirely new.
These, and the pleasure-houses, stand as trim as soldiers on parade; contrasting with the swarming, slovenly, close, tumble-down, Eastern old town, that forms the outport of Cairo, and was built before the importation of European taste and discipline. Here we alighted upon donkeys, to the full as brisk as those of Alexandria, invaluable to timid riders, and equal to any weight.
This is the outport of the Welsh coal and iron region, and the Marquis of Bute, who is a large landowner here, has done much to develop its enormous trade, which goes to all parts of the world.
"An outport," she said slowly, "is a a part of a ship," that much seemed safe "I expect it's the place where they throw things like potato peels through." "You suppose what!" he cried, breathing quite hard. "A place where they " he broke off. "And you're Jeremy Ammidon's granddaughter! By heaven, it would make a coolie laugh.
"I don't think it says anything about exports," Laurel volunteered. "We have the boundaries and " "Bilge," he interrupted sharply. "I didn't fetch boundaries back in the Two Capes, did I?" He thrust the offending volume into a crevice of his chair. "Laurel," he added, "what is the outport of St. Petersburg?" "Cronstadt," she answered, after a violent searching of her memory.
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