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There was a pause, and then Coke said: " Oh, of course-I don't know-but-" He who was called Billie then addressed his com- panions. " It wouldn't be right to repeat any old lie about Nora Black, and by the same token it wouldn't be right to see old Mother Wainwright chummin' with her. There is no wisdom in going further than that.
Even chummin' won't sarve ye. Good-night!" After getting rid of this importunate customer, Cap'n Abe closed his door and put out his store lights an hour earlier than usual and came back to sit down with Louise. His visage was red and determination sat on his brow. "I snum!" he emphatically observed. "Cardhaven folks seem bit with some kind o' bug. Talk 'bout curiosity! 'Hem!
"What I mean to say is this," he continued, by way of explanation, "the chaps Burton and the rest of 'em seems a bit puzzled that 'e 'aven't come off aboard to sleep to-night; but so far as I can make out, they thinks 'e's stayin' ashore with you, chummin' up with you, in a manner of speakin', and tryin' to get to wind'ard of you.
'Course nobody'd want you to keep up chummin' in with Come-Outers, but what you said to old Eben'll square you this time. So long." The minister shut the door behind his departing guests. Then he went out into the kitchen, whither the housekeeper had preceded him. He found her standing on the back step, looking across the fields. The wash bench was untenanted.
"Every craft in sight has strung the colors." Pearson laughed. Then he said: "Captain, I think the room will do. It isn't palatial, but one can live in worse quarters, as I know from experience." "Yup. Well, Jim, there's just one thing more. Have I disgraced you a good deal, bein' around with you and chummin' in with you the way I have? That is, do you think I've disgraced you?
And then for eight or ten years she'd lived by herself, just devotin' all her time to little Polly, sendin' her to school, chummin' with her durin' vacations, and tryin' to make her forget that she had a daddy in the discards.
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