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Upon reaching the street they stepped up along side the squire, so that persons in passing thought they were merely walking along to keep the aged man company. But Ralph Willoby was not so easily misled. He was just leaving the Bugle office as they came along, and he instantly detected a "story." "Come on," said Alice, "you can be our counsel. We are under arrest."
"Why, it's a regular fort!" exclaimed Ralph, as the shutters clanged to with a harsh, grating sound. "You bet my life idt's a fort," agreed Herr Geisler, "undt ledt me tell you dot you needt a fort ven you have a specie room by dis country." "Then the specie room is near us?" "In there." The German pointed over his shoulder at a door in the rear of the office.
"I wonder to hear ye, Ralph Peden, your father's son," said the minister, "you that have been colleged by the shillings and sixpences of the poor hill folk. How will ye do with these?" "I will pay them back," said Ralph. "Hear ye, man: can ye pay back the love that hained and saved to send them to Edinburgh?
"Changed he must be, Ralph, if you would commit to his care what could not be too well discharged by the most trustworthy friend of the family." "Yes, but Robbie will do as well as another better. You know, Willy, I have an old weakness for a sheep that strays. When I get it back I fancy, somehow, it's the best of the flock." "May your straggler justify your odd fancy this time, brother!"
"Dear Gus," he said, "when next I am here, you will be my own, own wife," and he kissed her. "Dear Ralph," she said, "when next I am here, you will be my own, own husband," and kissed him; "but we have Como, and Florence, and Rome, and Naples to do before that; and won't that be nice?" "It will be very nice to be anywhere with you," said the lover.
She knew how keenly Ralph must feel her last slight to his family, and she had been frightened when she guessed that he had seen her returning with Van Degen. He must have been watching from the window, since, credulous as he always was, he evidently had a reason for not believing her when she told him she had come from the studio.
Ernest would have preferred to lose Ralph, but when the boy was out of the harvest field he stuck to his brother like a burr. There was something about Claude's new clothes and new manner that fascinated him, and he went through one of those sudden changes of feeling that often occur in families.
"I," said Duke Ralph, "prefer the fists; 'tis noblest." Gwynplaine came out from the shadow. He directed his steps towards him whom he had hitherto called Tom-Jim-Jack, but in whom now, however, he began to perceive something more. "I thank you," said he, "but this is my business." Every head turned towards him. Gwynplaine advanced.
One pleasant Wednesday afternoon, a portion of the week always devoted to recreation by the Boston school children, Ralph obtained leave to take the "Clipper" with him to the Common. George also went with him with his sled. The coasting is very good, and some hundreds of boys are enjoying it.
'Oh! said Newman, throwing some intelligence into his eyes all at once, and dropping them on his master, 'I thought you rang. With which laconic remark Newman turned round and hobbled away. 'Stop! said Ralph. Newman stopped; not at all disconcerted. 'I did ring. 'I knew you did. 'Then why do you offer to go if you know that? 'I thought you rang to say you didn't ring, replied Newman.
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