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Collier Pratt was to her a necessary but insignificant detail in Nancy's scheme of things, a poor artist who had "frittered away so much time in furrin parts" that he was incapable of supporting his only child "poor little motherless lamb!" in anything like a befitting and adequate manner.
But do you know where Parrawhite has lived lodged?" "No!" replied Pratt. "Some of the others may, though!" "Try to find out quickly," continued Eldrick; "Then, make some excuse to go out take papers somewhere, or something and find if he's left his lodgings! I I don't want to set the police on him. He was a decent fellow, once. See what you can make out, Pratt.
This house seems like a prison to me this morning. But what troubles me most is this: Why do Maynard and father permit us to stay here? I am afraid of Mr. Pratt everybody says he will make us trouble, and yet our dear ones urge us to remain." "Mamma," gravely replied Viola, "I want to tell you something that came to me this morning.
Here Lambert's wrath broke bonds. "Damn the control! I don't consent. And I serve notice on you, and on you too" he directed a menacing look upon Pratt "to respect the name of my wife as well as that of my daughter. Clarke has lived long enough in the West to know what I mean, but I'll explain to you."
But all our crops is ruined and how we are ever goin' to get through the winter I declare I can't tell!" "Have you a husband? And, by the way, hadn't you better tell me your name?" said Eleanor. "My husband's dead been dead nearly two years," said the woman. "I'm Sarah Pratt. This here's my husband's sister, Ann." "Well, Mrs.
"I wonder whether he would have advised me to write a little note to Captain Pratt, explaining how I came there, and asking him not to mention it. But, of course, he won't repeat it. He won't want to make an enemy of me and Hugh. The Pratts think so much of me. Edward never would, but I don't think so much of good family, and all that, as Edward did. We will certainly ask him."
He could find the patience, and he had the time but it would give him great happiness if opportunity came along to help in the work. In everyday language, Linford Pratt wanted a chance he waited the arrival of the tide in his affairs which would lead him on to fortune. Leave him alone he said to himself to be sure to take it at the flood.
You're always on horseback now," said Fowler Pratt. "Well, yes; I have gone in a good deal for cavalry work this last month. I've been lucky enough to have a young lady to ride with me." This he said in a whisper, which the distance of Lily justified. "How d'ye do, Crosbie? One doesn't often see you on horseback, or on foot either."
I had thought of real estate, but it needn't necessarily be that. It sounds to me as if you really ought to make an effort to buy the paper, Barry, Have you thought of getting anyone to go into it with you?" The man laughed, perhaps a little embarrassed. "Never here, really. I went to Walter Pratt about it once," he admitted, "but he said he was all tied up.
As it was, however, great was his delight when Deacon Pratt engaged him as master of the new schooner, which had been already named the "Sea Lion" or "Sea Lyon," as Roswell sometimes affected to spell the word, in honour of his old progenitor, the engineer. Mary Pratt had noted all these proceedings, partly with pain, partly with pleasure, but always with great interest.
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