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"Oh, in many small ways, but chiefly in this affair with the little lady of Appleby." "Never!" I denied. "So far as decent speech could compass it, I have ever sought to tell her what a conscienceless villain you are." He laughed again at that. "You know women but indifferently, my Captain, if you think to breach a love affair by a cannonade of hard words. But I am in no humor to dispute with you.
Pickle fixed his habitation for life in the six and thirtieth year of his age; and before he had been three months settled, the indefatigable zeal of Miss Grizzle had arranged a match for her brother with a fair Miss Appleby, daughter of a gentleman who lived in the next parish. The following letter was transmitted to Miss Appleby by her brother: MISS SALLY APPLEBY.
"Then please, Uncle Por I mean Captain, what shall we name our ship, I mean the new name?" "Well, my Porges, I mean, of course, shipmate, I rather thought of calling her Hallo! why here's the Sergeant." Sure enough, there was Sergeant Appleby sitting under the shade of "King Arthur" but who rose, and stood at attention as they came up.
Father nervously concealed his greasy shirt-front with his left hand, and held out his right hand deprecatingly. Mr. I'm glad there's an end to all this wickedness and foolishness at last. Where's Mother Appleby?" "She wasn't feeling jus' like coming," Father mumbled. "I'll take you to her." "How the devil are you earning a living?"
"Well, here we are, safe across, horseless, and well belike to freeze to death," he commented. "What next?" I made him a bow. "You are on my demesne of Appleby Hundred, Captain Jennifer, and it shall go hard with us if we can not find a fire to warm a guest and a horse to mount him withal. Let us go to the manor house and see what we can discover."
But Isaac had the advantage in point of looks, I will say that for him. "I mean that you two women will stay up on that roof until one of you agrees to marry me," said Isaac solemnly. I gasped. "Isaac Appleby, you can't be in earnest?" I cried incredulously. "You couldn't be so mean?" "I am in earnest. I want a wife, and I am going to have one.
When the door had closed on the last of the revelers Father returned, glanced once at him, coldly stopped to pick up a chair which had been upset, then stalked up to Harris and faced him, boring him with an accusing glance. "Well," said Harris, uneasily, "you sure got Say, I certainly got to hand it to you, Father Appleby." Like a big, blubbery, smear-faced school-boy he complained, "Gee!
Then Tom said: "I prefer to say nothing, Doctor." "Very well. Then this painful scene had best end. I request you all to keep silence on this matter. I will see Mr. Appleby, and explain that all of my students deny having had a hand in this occurence. That should be sufficient for him."
The door stood wide, and a thin wreath of blue smoke curled upward from the mouth of the wattled chimney. Then and there I had my first welcome home. Old black Darius old when I had last seen him at Appleby Hundred, and a very grandsire of ancients now was one of the runaways who made the forest lodge a refuge.
He grinned contentedly and went to sleep again.... Fortunately Mother was asleep and did not see him acting as she often but vainly defined it "like a young smart Aleck." Father awakened from an agitating dream of setting the barn afire, and beheld Mother sitting up amid the hay an amazing, a quite incredible situation for Mrs. Seth Appleby.
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