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"Look here! if Marcia's really going to marry Newbury!" he brought his hand down vehemently on Lester's table "there'll be another family row. Nothing in the world will prevent my putting the Betts' case before Marcia! I have already warned her that I mean to have it out with her, and I have advised Mrs. Betts to write to her. If she can make Newbury hear reason well and good.
An' so I went down to the library an' asked Miss Hemenway for a book about him. An' I read it. An' then she told me about more an' more folks that was blind, an' what they had done. An' I read about them, too." "Well, gracious me, Susan Betts, if you ain't the limit!" commented Mrs. McGuire, half admiringly, half disapprovingly. "Well, I did.
The woman herself, when she saw the iron bars in the Elizabeth Street station, fell into hysterics and was taken to the Hudson Street Hospital. Reilly was arraigned in the Tombs Police Court in the morning. He paid his fine and left, protesting that he was her only husband. He had not been gone ten minutes when Claimant No. 4 entered. "Was Sarah Joyce brought here?" he asked Clerk Betts.
The sight of the lady in the car seemed to excite his astonishment, but after a moment or two's observation he turned abruptly round the corner of the building behind him and disappeared. "That's the place, miss, where they try all the new foods," the chauffeur continued, eagerly, "and that's Mr. Betts. He's just wonderful with the beasts." "You know the farm, Jackson?"
J. Mackins, the coxswain of the Walmer lifeboat, was also seized by pneumonia after a splendid service across the Goodwins, when his lifeboat was buried thirty times in raging seas; S. Pearson, once coxswain of the Walmer lifeboat, died of Bright's disease, the result of exposure; and on the occasion of the rescue of the Ganges, one of the crew, R. Betts, had his little finger torn off.
An' pretty quick he'll know." "An' yet you want that poor child to live, Susan Betts!" "Of course I want him to live!" "But what can he DO?" "Do? There ain't nothin' he can't do. Why, Mis' McGuire, listen! I've been readin' up. First, I felt as you do a little. I I didn't WANT him to live. Then I heard of somebody who was blind, an' what he did. He wrote a great book.
Some of the women prepared the breakfast; others carried ammunition to the different guns, while Betts went round and loaded them, one and all; and others, again, picked up such articles of value as had been overlooked in the haste of the previous evening, carrying them either into the crater, or on board the ship.
But Betts had his anchorage already in his eye, and away he went, with the wind on his quarter, towing his prize at the rate of four or five knots.
"We have a choice given us by Providence, both as to ships and as to wives, Captain Betts; but no choice is allowed any of us in what relates to religion. In that, we are to mind the sailor's maxim, 'to obey orders if we break owners." "Little fear of 'breaking owners, I fancy, governor. But, the difficulty is to know what orders is.
She had a baby, and lost it, and was never quite herself after. Poor thing! poor thing!" "And my uncle Laurence's wife," said Bessie, not to dwell on that tragedy of which she knew the issue. "Oh! Mr. Laurence's wife!" said Mrs. Betts in a quite changed tone. "I never pitied a gentleman more.
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