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"You should have been out and about two hours ago. The day is glorious." "Shan't be more than a minute, gov'nor, now. Just got to have a tub and then chuck on a few clothes." He disappeared into the bathroom. His father, taking a chair, placed the tips of his fingers together and in this attitude remained motionless, a figure of disapproval and suppressed annoyance.
"I don't want any of your opinions, my man," said he; "and, if you talk of gallantry, I don't think she has stuck to us as she might have done in the gale. Probably, though, she couldn't help this; for she's a wretched tub and has the misfortune of having a nincompoop for a commander besides!"
Well, the story still runs at West Point that Military Cadet Hobson was forced to read aloud all the best things about his brother in the Navy that the other cadets could find in the newspapers. Besides that, Cadet Hobson, so we are told today, had to 'sail' chips on a tub of water, at the same time bombarding the chips with pebbles and cheering for his brother.
They manage the murder part of it all right, and then stub their toes on the body problem. 'I wish you wouldn't talk as if we had done a murder. 'I feel as if we had, don't you? 'Exactly. 'I read a story once where a fellow slugged somebody and melted the corpse down in a bath tub with sulphuric 'Stop! You're making me sick! 'Only a suggestion, don't you know, said Bill apologetically.
Traces of fright and apprehension were met at every step; a dirty hairbrush dropped on the ground; a clock abandoned on a bench outside the door as if too heavy; tins opened and rifled of their contents; a tub half full of soiled clothes in foul water. All these he saw, scarcely taking in their meaning, until returning to the manor he opened the front door and went in.
He started each day with a stimulating plunge in his big tub, and never tired proclaiming that with this and enough good whiskey he would live to be a hundred and then Main Street would stop and listen to the generous reverberations of his deep-chested laugh.
"A man had better be in bed this time of night than rapping at locked doors," he decided. And in five minutes was asleep. When Jim woke next morning his first act was to try doors and window. All were as he had left them last night. But since he was not the man for worry before breakfast he went into his tub singing.
They brought him water, and when they plunged his swollen feet into the tub, he cried out it was burning; and folk say that it DID bubble and sparkle like a seething cauldron. He flung the cup at Dougal's head, and said he had given him blood instead of burgundy; and, sure aneugh, the lass washed clotted blood aff the carpet; the neist day.
"And you can have the room for your tools where it'll be warm in the winter!" "An' there'll be the bow-winder out of the settin' room, Huldah!" "Yes, and a real bathroom, with water coming right out of the wall, same as the Wileys have!" "An' a tub, Huldah one o' them pretty white chiny ones!" "Oh, Cyrus, ain't it almost too good to be true!" sighed Huldah: then her face changed.
Starboard a little," he sang out, "or we shall run into a tub with a light in it." "Oh, the scoundrels!" broke from many lips. Jack was about to douse the light, but Hemming told him to let it burn on. "It will serve as a beacon to us, and the felucca's people will not know whether or not we have been deceived by it," he observed. It now became a question in which direction the slaver had gone.
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