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You were the first elements of that Empire...." "'Ere," said Stumpy, grinning with delight, "'ave a bloomin' drink." "Your Battalion saved a whole Division at Cambrai ." "Ave a bloomin' nother!" Even during this "rest" in Pop., working parties were daily sent up on missions varying in detail but never in hardship or risk.
"We will be quite merry to-morrow," he said. "I hope we shall eat many Christmas dinners together, and continue good friends." He started, after breakfast, with the promise of coming back at night; but night came, the Christmas passed away, months and years fled away, but we never saw the little stumpy man again!
Stumpy met him at the door, and the crippled pirate's eyes burned with the newborn lust of loot. Stumpy made as if to stay the giant with questions; but he saw the snarling fight at the end of the chamber and caught the glitter of jewels. With the stumbling speed of a charging, wounded bull, he rushed in to join battle.
Now to business. Do you intend to pay or not?" The merchant hesitated. Evidently he was afraid to oppose the other too strongly. "Well, I don't want to let you go without anything," he began. "I'll let you have twenty-five dollars " John Stumpy jumped up in a passion. "That settles it. I'm done with you.
He, too, had heard the rumour that Peter had mentioned to me at St Anton, of a new Boche plane, with mighty engines and stumpy wings cunningly cambered, which was a devil to climb; but no specimens had yet appeared over the line.
"Well, do as you think best, Roger, only don't be too long the widow and Kate are waiting, you know." Pushing through the crowd, I tapped Stumpy on the shoulder. He looked around in assumed surprise. "Hullo!" he exclaimed sharply. "What do you want?" "Nothing much," I returned. "I just saw you were greatly interested in what I was doing." "Why, I didn't see you before."
"Shall we pretend we are enjoying ourselves?" said Scott with a smile. She answered him with feverish earnestness. "Yes yes! Let us do that! And, Stumpy, Stumpy dear, you are good, you can pray. I can't, you know. Will you will you pray sometimes that I may find him?" "I shall pray that your eyes may be opened, Isabel," he answered, "so that you may know you have never really lost him."
As no motion had been made to bind them, the boys could make a sudden break or dash for liberty whenever the whim took possession of them, but nothing could be gained and a great deal might be lost by such an attempt. Stumpy and heavy-set as were the warriors, they could easily outrun their captives, and rather than permit them to get away, they would doubtless riddle them with bullets.
The penny ones might be like gooseberry bushes, rather low down and stumpy, and mother would say, 'Now, who will go and see if there are any ripe pennies for me to-day? and we should see the great round brown pennies hanging ready to drop, and the little wee ones just beginning to grow, or perhaps having grown to the size of halfpennies; and we might ask, 'Shall we gather all we find, or leave the halfpennies for another day to grow into pennies?
And the great heavy dark plate-chests went off to Messrs. Stumpy and Rowdy, to lie in the cellars of those eminent bankers until the same period should arrive. One day Emmy, with George in her hand and clad in deep sables, went to visit the deserted mansion which she had not entered since she was a girl. The place in front was littered with straw where the vans had been laden and rolled off.
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