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quoted Billy, who had an excellent memory. Myra rose, hastily. "I must go in," she said. "But play as long as you like." Billy walked beside her towards the shrubbery. "May I come in and see you, presently, dear Queen? There is something I want to say." "Come when you will, Billy-boy," said Lady Ingleby, with a smile. "You will find me in my sitting-room."
The hands had long since left, and the night watchman having abandoned his trust in favour of a neighbouring bar, the wharf was deserted. An elderly seaman came to the gate and paused irresolute, then, seeing all was quiet, stole cautiously on to the jetty, and stood for some time gazing curiously down on to the deck of the billy-boy PSYCHE lying alongside.
"And one sent me to see that ramshackle old brig that looked as if it might have been a tender out of the Armada, and the two others sent me to see a barque that would want twice as big a crew as I should take, and the other to look over that abominable old billy-boy that you couldn't tell bow from stern, which so sure as she bumps upon a sandbank would melt away like butter.
But when the fire had sunk to dull embers, and the stars were peeping shyly in the open flap of their tent, she whispered in his ear: "You mustn't think I'm complaining or lonesome or anything, Billy-boy, when I make remarks like I did to-day. I love you a heap, and I'd be happy anywhere with you. And I'm really and truly at home in the wilderness.
They could not exactly understand each other's language, and had great fights from time to time over toys, for though there was a year between them they were nearly equal in strength; but they cared for each other's company more than for anything else, were always asking to go to one another, and roared when the time of parting came; at least Alwyn did so unreservedly, for Nuttie had begun to perceive with compunction that Billy-boy was much the most under control, and could try to be good at his mother's word, without other bribe than her kiss and smile.
She took it down and stared at it with a tremulous smile. "Oh, Billy-boy, Billy-boy, I wish you knew," she whispered. "But I was coming, anyway, Bill!" That evening, stirring about her preparations for the journey, she paused, and wondered why, for the first time since Bill left, she felt so utterly at peace. Twelve months works many a change on a changing frontier. Hazel found this so.
To his dismay he found when he awoke in the morning that what little wind there was had dropped in the night, and the billy-boy was just rising and falling lazily on the water in a fashion most objectionable to an empty stomach.
'No. I thought I heard him. I must see him to-morrow. 'And I must see yours. May it not be a pleasure to-night? I've no doubt you go and gloat over him at night. 'Well, I do generally run up after dinner; but after your day, I can't think of dragging you up all these stairs. 'Oh, that's nothing! Only you see it is jollier to have my Billy-boy in the next room.
"I'm glad you've found something to loose that pent-up energy of yours on, Billy-boy," she said. "You'll make a success of it, I know. I don't see why you shouldn't make a success of any kind of business. But I didn't think you'd ever tackle business. You have such peculiar views about business and business practice." "I despise the ordinary business ethic," he returned sharply.
Dutton did not wonder that he said so, when she came in leading her little son, with his sunny hair newly brushed and shining, and carrying a little bouquet for the guest of one La Marque rosebud and three lilies of the valley. 'Take it to Mr. Dutton, Billy-boy; I think he knows how the flowers came into the garden. You shall have daddy's button-hole to take to him next.
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