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Updated: June 23, 2025
Cap'n Joab felt almost as though Cap'n Abe's sudden departure was a thrust at him. But when he introduced himself to Cap'n Amazon the latter seized the caller's hand in a seaman's grip, and said heartily: "I want to know Cap'n Joab Beecher, of the old Sally Noble. I knowed the bark well, though I never happened to clap eyes on you, sir. Abe give me a letter for you. Here 'tis.
Inasmuch as Isabel had always hated the girl venomously, she did not trust herself to comment upon her caller's enthusiasm. "She is now eighteen," the fat suitor went on, ecstatically, "and so altogether charming But why waste time in pretty speeches? I have decided to marry her."
The old-fashioned brass bell-handle upon the caller's right drooped from its socket in a dead fag, but after comprehensive manipulation on the part of the young man, and equal complaint on its own, it was constrained to permit a dim tinkle remotely.
"Oh I can't tell you, so you'd understand." "Am I so thick-headed?" Brown asked the question seriously. His eyes, keen, yet full of sympathetic interest, rested inquiringly upon his caller's face. "It's in the air, that's all I can say. I wouldn't be surprised to be fired any minute after eight years' service.
Waddles picked his guitar; two fiddles broke into "Turkey in the Straw" and the dance was on with Waddles calling the turns. All through the room they shuffled and bowed, whirled partners, locked elbows and swung, the shriek of fiddles and scrape of feet punctuated by the caller's boom. "Grab your gals for the grand right an' left!" the big voice wailed. "Swing, rattle and roar!"
And then Henrietta, with that audacious forwardness which the Cooneys mistook for humor, smiled treacherously at her cousin over the caller's shoulder, and said: "And entertain each other a moment, won't you? I have got to speak to mother...." On that Hen left them. Through some bias in its ancient hinges, the parlor door swung to behind her. It shut with a loud click.
"Miss Mayo she say, 'Yaas," he briefly reported. Under the force of the nervous reaction he experienced, Laurie actually caught the man's arm. "She's there?" he jerked out. "You're sure of it?" "Yaas, sah." Henry spoke soothingly. By this time he had made a diagnosis of the caller's condition which agreed with that of the night-watchman Laurie had just interviewed.
Cobden saw by his caller's clothes that he was a Quaker, and in an instant had decided to employ him. In relating the incident, years after, Cobden said: "I was wrong in my conclusions I thought he had come to me for work; instead, he had come to hire me. He wanted me to go over to Rochdale and lecture for his Literary Society."
His brother officers, although being men they were not so quick to nose out a scandal, could not help noticing his absorption in Mrs. Norton's society. One afternoon his Double Company Commander, Major Hepburn, walked into the compound of Raymond's bungalow and on the verandah shouted the usual Anglo-Indian caller's demand: "Boy! Koi hai?"
And she may claim the success of the evening as her own, for it is upon the hostess that each phase of successful dinner-giving devolves, even when most of the actual entertaining is done by one or more of the guests. It is a time of extreme convention, and despite the seeming revelry and celebration, the strictest rules are observed. The calls are made according to the caller's rank.
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