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"You must spend it within doors then." John shook his head. "You ought; it must be dreadfully cold on this bark-heap after sunset." "Rather, sometimes. Are you cold now? Shall I fetch but I haven't anything fit to wrap you in, except this rug." He muffled it closer round me; infinitely light and tender was his rough-looking boy's hand.
However, it all comes to this that whether I like it or not, I'll stick to the tanning as long as I can." "That's right; I'm so glad. Nevertheless" and I watched him as he stood, his foot planted firmly, no easy feat on the shifting bark-heap, his head erect, and his mouth close, but smiling "Nevertheless, John, it's my opinion that you might be anything you liked." He laughed.
John Halifax started up at the sharp tone of command; but when he saw me he smiled. My father walked on to some pits where he told me he was trying an important experiment, how a hide might be tanned completely in five months instead of eight. I stayed behind. "John, I want you." John shook himself free of the bark-heap, and came rather hesitatingly at first. "Anything I can do for you, sir?"
In fact, positively agreeable ay, even though the tan-yard was close behind; but here it would offend none of my senses. "Are you comfortable, Phineas?" "Very, if you would come and sit down too." "That I will." And we then began to talk. I asked him if he often patronised the bark-heap, he seemed so very much at home there. "So I am," he answered, smiling; "it is my castle my house."
Supper, when I do get it, I like best on this bark-heap, after the men are away, and the tan-yard's clear. Your father lets me stay." "And where is your lodging, then? Where do you sleep?" He hesitated coloured a little. "To tell the truth anywhere I can. Generally, here." "What, out-of-doors?" "Just so." I was much shocked.
I have plenty of time for thinking, and one's thoughts travel fast enough lying on this bark-heap faster than indoors. I often wish I could read that is, read easily. As it is, I have nothing to do but to think, and nothing to think of but myself, and what I should like to be." "Suppose, after Dick Whittington's fashion, you succeeded to your master's business, should you like to be a tanner?"
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