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Celestina had been turning her bright brown eyes from one parent to another in turn as they spoke. 'Is London much grander than Seacove? she asked. 'I thought the Rectory was such a fine house. Mrs. Fairchild smiled. 'It might be made very nice. There's plenty of room any way. And many clergymen's families are very simple and homely. 'I wonder if there are any little girls, said Celestina.
'Boats and ships is all the same, Biddy persisted; 'and I heard papa say there was a Scotch boat to Seacove twice a week there now, Rough. 'Oh well but that's only a way of speaking. Papa didn't mean a real boat a little boat. Now, if we could go down those steps right among all the ships I'd soon show you the difference. 'But we mustn't, Rough, said Alie anxiously.
"Now watch me play him." But the first few "nibbles" proved to be merely "hook-cleaners." The fish got the bait, and the boys had the exercise of swishing their lines in and out of the water. Channel bass run to large sizes. Torry told about seeing one hung up on the dock at Seacove weighing sixty-four and a quarter pounds.
'I don't know how a fashionable London clergyman will settle down at Seacove, nor what his reasons are for coming here, I'm sure. I hope the change will be for good. But his tone showed that he was not at all certain that it would prove so. 'Is he married? asked Celestina's mother. 'Oh yes, by the bye, I remember Mr.
"I've soaked in enough salt water. I don't feel as though I should really need a bath again before I get to be twenty-one yet." "Tough on your messmates, Ikey," observed Whistler. "Do think better of such a rash decision." The four boys from Seacove were not alone in being anxious regarding the Kennebunk and their chance of overtaking her.
Before night it was evident that both Biddy and her father were not to escape all bad results from the chill and wetting; and the Seacove doctor, who was sent for at once, looked grave, shook his head as he murmured that it was no doubt most unfortunate. He would say nothing decided beyond giving some simple directions till he should see how the patients were the next day.
Last night he closed the shop an hour early so's to sit down with my mama and me and Aunt Eitel in the back room, after the kids was all in bed, and made me tell about all we'd done and seen. I tell you it's great!" "And before we began our hitch," Al Torrance chuckled, as he expertly rounded a corner, "we were scarcely worth speaking to in Seacove.
Coming north to Seacove by train, they had met their shipmate, Hans Hertig, known aboard the Colodia as Seven Knott, who had likewise been given a furlough after leaving the naval hospital where he had been convalescing from a wound. The Colodia was still at sea or across the Atlantic or somewhere. The young seamen who belonged to her crew did not know where.
The Seacove boys were already well trained in the general duties that fell to their share, even though they had never cruised upon a superdreadnaught. Now they had the special duties of looking after the guns in the turret to which they were attached. Gun drill would hereafter occupy a part of their time each forenoon.
After stopping for a moment at the grocer's, Mrs. Vane turned to go home by the Parade, the same way by which the children had come to Seacove that Saturday. It was a fine bright afternoon, still early a little breeze blew in from the sea the tide was far out. 'Mayn't we go home by the shore, mamma? Alie asked. 'It is nice firm walking nearly all the way. Mrs.
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