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"Why, man, I could never so much as learn the stuff; my memory's like a sieve; and as for acting, I've no more idea than a cat." "The stage is not the only course," said Leon. "Be a sculptor, be a dancer, be a poet or a novelist; follow your heart, in short, and do some thorough work before you die." "And do you call all these things ART?" inquired Stubbs. "Why, certainly!" returned Leon.
But this is Burton, by some accounted a morose person, but by those who knew him intimately a cheery and witty companion. Here, too, with slow and faltering step comes Pusey in extreme old age, and Liddon of ascetic mien. Hark to the laughter! It is Stubbs historian Bishop with witty saying falling from his lips.
His house, with its broad, mossy roof sloping down on one side almost to the rose-bushes and lilacs, and with its comfortable little porch in front, where he used to sit of a pleasant summer afternoon, has passed into new hands, and has been sadly disfigured by a glaring coat of white paint; and in the place of the good Doctor's name, hardly legible on the corner-board, may now be seen, in staring letters of black and gold, "VALENTINE ORSON STUBBS, M. D., Indian doctor and dealer in roots and herbs."
"Do you surrender?" shouted a voice through a megaphone from the dirigible as it hovered above the stricken aeroplane. "Yes, hornswoggle you," roared Ben Stubbs, "but if it hadn't been for that gas-bag of yours you'd never have got us, and I can lick any man aboard yer with my fists or any other weapon."
"This seems the dearest pair of boots you ever had in your life, Mr. Stubbs," said Commissioner Dubobwig very archly, and then he began to inquire about the rest of my misfortunes. In the fulness of my heart I told him the whole of them: how Mr. Solomonson the attorney had introduced me to the rich widow, Mrs. Manasseh, who had fifty thousand pounds, and an estate in the West Indies.
"I have met Chester Crawford," was the reply. "He was here only a moment ago. I do not know Hal Paine." "Well, if you know one of them you are just one better off than I am," was Stubbs' rejoinder. "I know them both, too well. Were it not that I am continually giving up my time to getting them out of scrapes, I would be able to give more attention to my own work.
"We cannot tell yet till the ship has been examined," replied the captain. He gave orders to sound the well and sent some men forward to examine the vessel's bow. Soon the ship's carpenter and Ben Stubbs came hurrying aft with scared faces. "What is it?" demanded the captain, "are we seriously damaged?" "We have sprung a leak forward and the water is pouring in," was the alarming reply.
Stubbs did not seem to be moved in the least at this very startling piece of intelligence, but winked his bright eyes in unconcern; and Toby, seeming to think that everything which he said had been understood by the monkey, continued: "I've got a good deal of money now, an' I guess there's enough for us to start out on.
We can pick up our outfit and our grub at th' same time." Wilson broke in. "I don't like the scheme, Stubbs. I want to get to work and find the girl before she gets over the hills. It's too hard a trip for her it might kill her. She's weak now, but that brute wouldn't care. If " "Slow! Slow, m' son. Yer blood is hot, but sometimes th' short course is th' longest.
"But supposin' that other Christians don't look at it in that light. Thar's Deacon Stubbs and his wife and the parson. Ye remember what he said about 'no covenant with sin'?" "The Stubbses have no right to dictate who I'll have in my house," said Mrs. Rivers quickly, with a faint flush in her rather sallow cheeks. "It's your say and nobody else's," assented her husband with grim submissiveness.
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