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Two days before the election a mass meeting of juniors and Limpets of all houses and ages, summoned by proclamation, was held in a corner of the playground, "to hear addresses by the candidates, and elect a member for Shellport." Pringle, of course, was to figure as his distant uncle, and upon the unhappy Bosher had fallen the lot of assuming the unpopular role of Mr Cheeseman.
Bubb, from elsewhere the anxious outcries of Mrs. Cheeseman and her husband. Amid all this Greenacre and his quondam friend somehow reached the foot of the stairs, where the darkness that enveloped their struggle was all at once dispersed by a candle in the hand of Mrs. Bubb. "Don't alarm yourself," shouted Gammon cheerily, "I'm only kicking this fellow out. No one hurt." "Well, Mr.
When it was settled in this strong way that Old Cheeseman was a tremendous traitor, who had wormed himself into our fellows' secrets on purpose to get himself into favour by giving up everything he knew, all courageous fellows were invited to come forward and enrol themselves in a Society for making a set against him. The President of the Society was First boy, named Bob Tarter.
"You are a man of business, and I am come upon dry business. You can conjecture is it not so? who I am by this time, although I am told that I do not bear any strong resemblance to my father." He took off his hat as he spoke, shook back his long black hair, and fixed his jet-black eyes upon Cheeseman.
But the sad, contemptuous, and piercing gaze as if he were hardly worth penetrating and the twirl of the black tuft above the lip, and the firm conviction on the broad white forehead that it was confronting a rogue too common and shallow to be worth frowning at all these, and the facts that were under them, came amiss to the true James Cheeseman.
He had the look of a man who has predetermined an attitude of easy good-humour, nor had the parting with Cheeseman failed to prove an occasion for fresh recourse to that fiery adjuvant which of a sudden was become indispensable to him.
The wife of Cheeseman urged him to join Bacon and fight for their liberties, which he did, as she afterward declared, at her own request.
Come and see them, all with Cheeseman's brand, the celebrated Cheeseman of Springhaven name guarantees the quality. But one thing, mind you no use to hanker after them unless you come provided with the ready." "We don't want your goods; we want you," answered Scudamore, now first luff of the brig of war Delia, and staring a little with his mild blue eyes at this man's effrontery.
Hood, he said, leaning forward, 'I owe you an apology, many apologies. You and your good husband in times long past did me a service of a very substantial kind. You thought I had forgotten it yes, you couldn't help but think it 'Oh, we won't talk about that, Mr. Cheeseman, interposed Mrs. Hood, not without a suggestion in her tone that she had indeed entertained the thought attributed to her.
The new aid given to Cheeseman left a few shillings out of the second broken sovereign. Let the two pounds he said to himself be regarded as gone; eight remained untouched. For the odd shillings, let them serve odd expenses. So when he had purchased Cheeseman's ticket to King's Gross, he was free with small change at the station bar.
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