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When I lighted a candle, I could perceive no living creature in the place with me, but the poor parrot, who, being frighted, cried out, Hold your tongue, and What's the matter with you, which words I had taught him, by saying so to him, when he made such screaming noises as I did not like. Lord, said I aloud, surely the devil has been here. Hold your tongue, says Poll.
"Now wait a moment, Poll, before you lose all hope!" exclaimed John, quickly glancing from Anne to his mother, and then back to his sister. "I asked father if he would agree to your having a private teacher live at Pebbly Pit to educate you, as you craved to be.
We stand benevolently in front of our fellow man, offering, almost as if it were food and drink and shelter and love, the work we want him to do; and behind him, we are acutely aware, is necessity, sometimes quite of our making, as when we drive him to work by a hut-tax or a poll tax or a rent, that obliges him to earn money, and sometimes not so obviously of our making, sometimes so little of our making that it is easy to believe we have no power to remove it.
"Yes," replied Short, taking the pipe out of his mouth, and wetting his lips with the grog. Short stay apeak was the anchor, We had but a short minute more, In short, I no longer could hanker, For short was the cash in my store. I gave one short look, As Poll heaved a short sigh, One short hug I took, Short the matter cut I, And off I went to sea. "Go on, Bob."
From words the incensed factions proceeded to blows; and there was a riot which was with some difficulty quelled. The High Bailiff then walked round the three companies of horsemen, and pronounced, on the view, that Montague and Fox were duly elected. A poll was demanded. The Tories exerted themselves strenuously. Neither money nor ink was spared.
It seemed to me that this latter business was of vital and pressing importance. The Hudson's Bay factors, and traders were, in various grades and degrees, partners in the annual trade or "outfit," under the provisions of the "deed poll." This "deed poll" was the charter under which the hardy officials worked and saved.
"I think you've won, mon petit chien," he said with vindictiveness, "but my poll comes to-morrow night, and I shall win." "No game is won till it's all played, m'sieu', and this innings is mine!" "I am fighting a bigger man than you, wasp," snarled Barouche. "As big as yourself and bigger, m'sieu'," said Denzil with a smile. There was that in his tone which made Barouche regard him closely.
"Very well, then, take it out o' that there now, that's one." It was now drawing on towards dusk, and Poll, assuming her black bonnet, and throwing her black cloak about her shoulders, sallied out with that furtive air which always accompanies one who is conscious of something that requires concealment.
She carried photographs of several small children, one of them a girl so like Little Poll that she might have been the original of the picture. "They just came," said Nancy Ellen rather breathlessly. "I was wild for that little darling at once. I had Robert telegraph them to hold her until we could get there.
I find by him that the House of Parliament continues full of ill humours; and do say how in their late Poll Bill, which cost so much time, the yeomanry, and indeed two-thirds of the nation, are left out to be taxed.
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