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Well, it's saved me a world of bother. If kids don't like me I don't like them, so that's an even score. But that certainly is a handsome child." Jims chose this moment for waking up. He opened his big brown eyes and looked at Mrs. Matilda Pitman unblinkingly. Then he sat up, dimpled deliciously, pointed to her and said solemnly to Rilla, "Pwitty lady, Willa, pwitty lady." Mrs.
"I never did such a thing in my life. I cannot drive." "Very well," responded Michael with entire composure, "neither can I see. But just as you like. Anything to oblige a friend." A glimpse of the ostler's darkening countenance decided Pitman. "All right," he said desperately, "you drive. I'll tell you where to go."
At the moment when we must present him to our readers, Pitman was in his studio alone, by the dying light of the October day. There was a thinning on the top of Pitman's head, there were silver hairs at Pitman's temple. Poor gentleman, he was no longer young; and years, and poverty, and humble ambition thwarted, make a cheerless lot.
"Looky here, Sam Pitman," he began, "for a long-headed, sensible mountain-man you are plunging into more serious trouble than any chap of your size ever got into. I'm going to let you on to a thing that a fellow usually keeps quiet I'm going to do it because I feel that it is my Christian duty not to be a party to the great disaster you are on the brink of."
Tomorrow we rip the fittings out, deposit the our friend inside, plump the whole on a cart, and carry it to the chambers of a young gentleman whom I know by sight. 'Whom do you know by sight? repeated Pitman. 'And what is more to the purpose, continued Michael, 'whose chambers I know better than he does himself.
But if the jury requires such "guiding" from the court, and if the court is competent thus to guide them, it is clear that the court must know the way and must be able to follow it; otherwise it could not so guide the jury. Judge Pitman also argues that the jury can eliminate "the personal equation" better than the judge. But is this so?
He was forestalled, however, a man of the opposing party deftly tripping him up and sending him sprawling into the mud. Before the unlucky pitman could rise the whole mob had surged over him, amidst shrieks of laughter. On this the Fairburn men threw all George's cautions to the winds, and charged the mob. Instantly a hot fight was going on around the big banner.
"Here I am, William Dent!" he cried, and drawing from his pocket two little wisps of reddish hair, he held them to his cheeks like side-whiskers and danced about the studio with the filmy graces of a ballet-girl. Pitman laughed sadly. "I should never have known you," said he. "Nor were you intended to," returned Michael, replacing his false whiskers in his pocket.
"His own mammy couldn't treat him better." "I don't know whether I'm spoiling him or not." He detected a slight quavering in her voice which was not exactly that of her usual composure. "Some folks say I am. I know I can't bear to have him work hard, although he is plumb well now. He had such a hard time under Sam Pitman that, somehow, I want him to have a good, long vacation.
The surprise of the three gentlemen at this simple avowal from a young pitman was unbounded. Then Mr. Hardinge said: "We must talk of this again later on. Now let us go down the pit; this young man will do excellently well for a guide. But I am afraid, Mr. Brook, that I shall have to trouble you a good deal.
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