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"All right," Tom finally answered, as he hung the receiver up, "I'll be here," and then he turned to Ned, whose curiosity had been growing with the telephone talk, and remarked: "That certainly was wonderful!" "What was?" asked Ned. "Do you think I'm a mind reader to be able to guess?" "No, indeed! I beg your pardon. I'll tell you at once. But I couldn't break away. It was too important.
HE didn't take less than he had asked, because that less was all she had, and more than he expected; not he, Tom!
Later in the afternoon their attention was arrested by another one of the town-criers, Tom had learned that there were three in the town, who was crying out that a meat-auction would be held that night at half-past six o'clock.
We will hope Tom will be wiser, now he has got safe out of his sooty old shell. But good Sir John did not understand all this, and he took it into his head that Tom was drowned.
"Have you saved up so much already?" asked Miles, in surprise. "Part of it I had left over when I got here." "Will you have any left?" "No." "Isn't it well to reserve a little, then?" "Oh, I shall have some more soon," answered Tom, sanguine, as most boys are. "Suppose you are sick?" "If he is sick he shall suffer for nothing," said the Scotchman.
"The first name I knew," he said, "the name of Tom Wood, is far more real to me or my father than Edgar Underwood ever could be." He promised that Dolores should have a telegram at Clipstone by the time she reached it, for she had to give her second lecture the next day, and was to return afterwards.
Henry had paid the entire bill at the Grand Hotel, had lent Tom a sovereign, another sovereign, and a five-pound note, and would certainly have been mulcted in Tom's fare on the expensive train de luxe had he not sagaciously demanded money from Tom before entering the ticket-office. Without being told, Henry knew that money lent to Tom was money dropped down a grating in the street.
She dropped them, and started up as Tom spoke. "Oh, my boy, my boy!" she said, clasping him round the neck. "To think as I should live to see this day! We're ruined everything's going to be sold up to think as your father should ha' married me to bring me to this! We've got nothing we shall be beggars we must go to the workhouse "
'One does keep a secret by telling you. It was to have my eye on some lodging with a decent landlady, where, when it is coming to that, he can go up to be alone, out of the way of troubling Dick, and of all of you. 'Tom, how dreadful! 'I fancy it is something of the animal instinct of creeping away alone, and partly his law to himself not to trouble Dick.
Tom climbed up the rigging and joined me shortly afterwards. From our elevated post we could see plainly the formation of the island, and the lagoon in the centre, encircled by a band of coral, in some places white, bare, and narrow, in others wide and covered with palm-trees and rich vegetation; it was moreover possible to understand better the theory of the formation of these coral islands.
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