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"Then do your worst!" said Paul, stung to defiance. "Very well, then," returned Chawner meekly, "I will and we'll see who wins!" And they went back to the schoolroom again, where Mr. Bultitude, boiling with rage and seriously alarmed as well, tried to sit down and appear as if nothing had happened.
More than that Chawner wouldn't say; but he recognised they should walk out together and unfold their feelings, and he promised that in a year's time he'd decide whether Samuel was up to the mark for his girl.
The new-comer was a tall, narrow-shouldered, stooping fellow, with a sallow, unwholesome complexion, thin lips, and small sunken brown eyes. His cheeks were creased with a dimpling subsmile, half uneasy, half malicious, and his tread was mincing and catlike. "Well, you fellows?" he said. All rose at once, and shook hands effusively. "Why, Chawner!" they cried, "how are you, old fellow?
And you very well know I love you, and life's properly empty when you ain't with me. There's nought else in the world that matters to me but only you." With that the man swallowed her in his great arms and took his first kiss off her. In fact, the world went very well for 'em, till they stood afore Chawner, who demanded time. Indeed, he appeared to be a good bit vexed about it.
This sneaking dodge is all very well for Chawner. Chawner could do that sort of thing without getting sat upon, because he's a big fellow; but we're not going to stand it from you. Will you promise on your sacred word of honour, now, to be a decent sort of chap again, as you were last term?" But Mr.
So there it was: the keepers at Trusham always felt that Chowne stood against 'em in their valiant endeavours to catch out Chawner; while the officer took his stand on the letter of the law and said that he held the balance of justice as became him, but weren't going to believe no tales nor set the law in motion against Mr. Green until the proofs stood before him.
Bultitude; "say it out at once; it will make no difference to me, I give you warning!" "Oh, yes it will, though. I think it will. Wait. I heard all you said to Grimstone in the study to-day about that girl Connie Davenant, you know." "I don't care; I am innocent. I have nothing to reproach myself with." "What a liar you are!" said Chawner, more in admiration than rebuke.
After a moment or two of anxious waiting he heard Coggs shout, all in one breath, "One-two-three-off!" and the sound of scampering feet followed immediately. It was a most exciting and hotly contested race. Paul saw them for one brief moment in the lamplight. He saw Chawner scudding down the path like some great camel, and Coker squaring his arms and working them as if they were wings.
I much hope you'll do so, please young man, and I give you my word solemn and faithful never to come here no more." Their blue eyes met and 'twas Samuel's that looked down first. "Who might your father be?" he asked. "Mr. Chawner Green," she answered. "'Tis this way with us, you see. My sister, that kept house for him, have just married, and so now I be come to take care of father."
He was a good bit of a puzzle to Borlase, but the younger, in justice, couldn't quarrel with the verdict, and he only hoped that Cicely wouldn't change her mind in such a parlous long time; for a year to the eye of love be a century. Well, as elders in such a pass will do, Chawner took careful stock of Sam, and the more he gleaned of the young man's opinions the better he liked him.
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