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For our lads usually fetched partners from elsewhere, and maidens being accustomed to migrate to service in the south, found mates there even as the swallows. "I thought that would fetch you!" cried Val triumphant. "And now give a guess." But I racked my brains to no purpose. "It's not Widow Lamont, and it's not Robina " "Why not?" he asked. But I saw he was quizzing. "It's a widow," he said.
So saying, he stamped upon the floor, which, was exactly over the bar, in order that some one might attend them with the liquor. "I'm obliged to you, Val," replied his companion dryly, "for your good opinion of me; but at the same time, God forbid that I should ever deserve it eh? ha, ha, ha.
And if he did take two helps of vol-au-vent, you must remember, Isabel, he's a big man well over six feet and requires good support. He certainly is not greedy or he would have tried to pick out the oysters: all men love oysters. "He was nice about Val's ribbon, too . . . wish I understood about that ribbon. Val was grateful: he said 'Thanks, Hyde' while Major Clowes was speaking to Barry.
Winifred a woman of real decision promptly changed his school and his name to Val, the Publius being dropped even as an initial. At nineteen he was a limber, freckled youth with a wide mouth, light eyes, long dark lashes; a rather charming smile, considerable knowledge of what he should not know, and no experience of what he ought to do.
Seven-and-thirty interviews, and some of them very tough ones. I think that's enough to take the steam out of a man." "Do the moneyed swells bite?" asked Mr. Hawkehurst, with friendly interest. "Rather slowly, my dear Val, rather slowly. The mercantile fisheries have been pretty well whipped of late years, and the fish are artful they are uncommonly artful, Val.
The Hawley person could buy us out for cash to-morrow, if she wanted to, and never miss the money. And, Val, she's giving that dance in your honor; you ought to appreciate that. The Hawley doesn't take a fancy to every woman she sees and, let me tell you, she stands ace-high in this country. If she didn't like you, she could make you wish she did." "Well, upon my word!
"The oak leaf is dust," murmured Ricky, "the sea wave is gone, the broadsword is rust, how now hold ye Lorne?" Her brothers answered her together: "By our Luck, thus hold we Lorne!" "And we've got to get it back," she said. "We've just got to! When the Luck hangs there again, we " "Won't have anything left to worry about," Val finished for her. "But that's a very big order, m'lady.
Opposite his mother in the cab going home, Val tasted the after-fruits of heroism, like medlars over-ripe. She only said, indeed, that he must go to his tailor's at once and have his uniform properly made, and not just put up with what they gave him. But he could feel that she was very much upset.
"I shall therefore leave the bulk of everything to you, and trust to you to provide liberally for the dear boy." Dad's remark is the best possible clue to Val's character. Had he nothing else to give, Val would strip the very coat off his own back, when it was a question of relieving distress.
Isabel tells me you're bringing Captain Hyde up to see us." He raised his cap again, smiling directly at Lawrence, who returned the salute with such gay good humour that Laura was able to dismiss that first fleeting impression from her mind. So this was Val Stafford, was it? And a very personable fellow too!
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