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They walked down the boardwalk to the place where most of the offices were and there read on a newly placed signboard the legend: "John and Hannah Higginbotham, Insurance Agents." "How is that?" said Carson, as he lit a cigar. "Well, I'll be surprised," was the answer. As Jim looked in astonishment the door was opened and a dapper little man with a fuzzy red beard appeared.
Then he rapped on the door with a bit of stick like a handspike that he carried, and when my father appeared, called roughly for a glass of rum. This, when it was brought to him, he drank slowly, like a connoisseur, lingering on the taste, and still looking about him at the cliffs and up at our signboard. "This is a handy cove," says he, at length; "and a pleasant sittyated grog-shop.
It was one of the black houses of old Paris, with a dark, evil-smelling passage, leading into a small yard which the nurse's few squalid rooms overlooked. Above the passage entrance was a yellow signboard which simply bore the name of Madame Rouche in big letters.
It was plain to Jack that Frank, as well as all the sailors and officers, was thinking along similar lines. The expressi6n on all faces was plain proof of it. Suddenly the sailors sprang forward, forgetting in an instant heat, bad air and discomfort. Following the gaze of the sailors, the lads turned their eyes to the signboard. There, as if by magic, had sprung up the word: "Attention!"
Kirby would ever consent, if he were alive, to die wrapped up in a Secession flag! gazing admiringly upon the unostentatious signboard which is suspended in front of the Hon. Izzy Lazarus's tavern glancing, wondering, and gazing thus, I enter the old Chatham theatre. The pit is full, but people fight shy of the boxes.
The only reason Murk wanted to remain in the vicinity of the cottage was to catch a sight of the countenance of the man who had worn the mask. As far as the cottage itself was concerned, he had noticed a signboard on a street corner not far from it, and he would be able to locate it again if Sidney Prale or Jim Farland thought it necessary.
But most of the brightness abode in the Chinamen's shoe-shops, where many lamps shone on the hammering and the stitching. There were endless shoe-shops, and they all belonged to Powson or Singson or Samson, while one signboard bore the broad impertinence, "Macpherson."
Ridding, who remembered his Dickens; and he blinked up, craning his head out, at the signboard, on which through a gap in the branches of the pepper trees a shaft of brilliant late afternoon sun was striking. "Don't see one, though." He jerked his thumb. "Up back of the trees there, I reckon," he said. Then he prepared to open the door and go and have a look.
Bobby settled herself on the porch with a pan of peas in her neat gingham lap, and all at once I cried: "'Comfort Cottage'! It is the very essence of comfort, Mrs. Bobby, even if there is not absolute peace or rest. Let me paint the signboard for you this very day." Mrs. Bobby was most complacent over the name.
But the post office agreed to put it back into the name, and a big signboard was painted and set up at the dock. "It sartain sure looks a hull lot diff'rent, even if ye do pernounce it the same," admitted Walky Dexter. So much was happening these balmy June days! The school year the first in the new schoolhouse was going to end in a blaze of glory for Nelson Haley, Janice was sure.
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