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"Bring your instruments and music, and then we needn't come up here again before we go to the ball-room. Halloa! you smell it?" "Yes, sir," said Jerry, who had been sniffing loudly. "Someone's been turning on the gas here, and no mistake! Temp'ry pipes, I suppose." "Doesn't it smell down below?" "Yes, I did notice it a bit, sir, all along the tables; but nothing like this."
She handed the money to the personage in black, who was no other than the former butler to Sir Morton Pippitt, now at the Manor on temp'ry service, and who in turn presented it with an official stateliness to the startled fly-man, who was just waking up to the fact that his fare, whom he had considered as a person of no account whatever, was the actual mistress of the Manor.
"Bill, ole feller," said Trotter, in tones of conciliation, and Bill wagged again. "'Ell, I can't make nothing of it," confessed Trotter blankly. "Must have gone sort o' temp'ry insane, like the sooicides. But well, we'll be even with 'im before all's over." And the lean Signor's sidelong look at the dog was full of menace.
"An' I've nothin' to say against larch IF you want to make a temp'ry job of it. I ain't 'ere to tell you what isn't so, sir; an' you can't say I ever come creepin' up on you, or tryin' to lead you further in than you set out " A year ago George would have danced with impatience. Now he scraped a little mud off his old gaiters with his spud, and waited.
Couldn't stand it no longer, he couldn't. The tune it got on his narves, it did! If it hadn't 'a been for a sort o' reel ease he got takin' of it quick and slow like the Hoarperer he'd have gave in afore; so there was no pretence. It's all werry fine to say temp'ry insanity, but I tell you it's the contrairy when a beggar comes to his senses and drownds hisself.
"All I say is that you can put up larch and make a temp'ry job of it; and by the time the young master's married it'll have to be done again. Now, I've brought down a couple of as sweet six-by-eight oak timbers as we've ever drawed. You put 'em in an' it's off your mind or good an' all.
"Oh, a wreck?" she exclaimed. "Will we have time to go up and see it?" "I'd say it's a wreck," grinned the trainman. "An' you've got all the time you want. We're a-goin' to pull in on the sidin' an' let the wrecker an' bridge crew at it. But even with 'em a-workin' from both ends it'll be tomorrow sometime 'fore they c'n get them box cars drug out an' a temp'ry trussle throw'd acrost."
"Why, he not only give the land for the church over there" and Hill pointed at the freight-house, so Hart could ketch on "but it was him got the Company to lay them temp'ry tracks, so the building stuff could be took right in. He's going to give a melodeon, too." "Dear William!" Hart's aunt said. "It rejoices my heart you're doing all these good deeds and all the others Mr.
He was uncomfortably conscious of a slight flush rising to his face, as he met the bland enquiring stare of Sir Morton Pippitt's former butler now on 'temp'ry' service at the Manor, he became aware that there was also a new and rather pretty housemaid beside the said butler, who whispered when she ought to have been silent, and he saw blankness on the fat face of Mrs.
He handed me a beautifully finished little repeating rifle, hardly heavier than a navy revolver, and a small bag of cartridges. 'Thar, that'll be company for ye, in case ye hev to draw a bead on the any one just temp'ry like. Our horses is hobbled in Bates's clearing. Take my old sorrel if ye can catch him. He stopped for a second and put his hand in a listening fashion.
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