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My inquiry for milk produced a general laugh, but I was told I might take as much sugar as I liked from a jar, which contained a dark-brown substance unlike any sugar I had before seen. "Ye'll soon be asking for your bed, leddie," said Bob Tubbs, the old man whose acquaintance I had so unceremoniously formed. "Ye'll find it there, for'ard, if ye'll grope your way.
The two went forth together, and another visit was paid to the lodging-house. After that Sidney called upon Mrs. Tubbs, and made a simple inquiry for Clara, with the anticipated result. 'You won't find her in this part of London, it's my belief, said the woman significantly. 'She's left the lodgings as she took so much I know. Never meant to stay there, not she!
The crew of the boat, therefore, took two of the latter up on their shoulders, and Tubbs, Harry, and I lifted the third. Harry carried the man's feet; Tubbs and I supported him by our arms and shoulders. "We shall be here for more than a week, I suspect," said Tubbs as we walked along.
"I think we could do it; what do you say? If we went round we might miss the others." "All wight," said Braintree, blowing his hands; "I'm game, so's Tubbs." Tubbs said nothing, but stood by miserably, ready to follow Bowler's lead. "I'll go down first," said the latter. "Mind how you come, the rocks are slippery."
"I thought he might be going to a funeral-dressed so soberly," added Dick, and this caused a general laugh, for Tubbs was attired in a light gray suit, patent leathers with spats, and a cream-colored necktie, with gloves to match. "How do you do?" said William Philander politely, as if he had not seen the others in the classrooms an hour before. "Pleasant day."
Then he heard the rich youth thrown into the stone cell next to the storeroom and left to his fate. It was nipping cold, and, even with the window tightly closed and nailed over with slats, Sam could not endure it to remain on the bench long. Leaping up he began to stamp his feet and slap his arms across his chest to get them warm. Soon he heard Tubbs doing the same thing.
The Applebys, who had mellowed among streets and shops, were very much like the Tubbses of Cape Cod. Father was, in his unquenchable fondness for Mother, like Romeo, like golden Aucassin. But also in his sly fondness for loafing on a sunny grass-bank, smoking a vile pipe and arguing that the war couldn't last more than six months, he was very much like Uncle Joe Tubbs.
"Fifteen-two, fifteen-four, and a pair is six!" rang out, triumphantly. Tubbs surprised them with refreshments they would have been jolly well surprised if she hadn't surprised them and Father played recent New York musical comedy songs on his new mouth-organ, stopping to explain the point of each, whereupon Mother shook her head and said, warningly, "Now, Father, you be careful what you say.
Tubbs's ambitions, without relating the whole strange story of the diary and the Island Queen. I was immensely pleased already by the elimination of Mr. Tubbs from the number of those who need have a finger in the golden pie. I thought that perhaps with time and patience I might coax events to play still further into my hand. But meanwhile the cave drew me like a magnet.
"But Tubby I mean Tubblets no, Willander Philliam Tubbs the name is altogether too long.
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