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Updated: May 6, 2025
"You don't suppose I would pay any attention to a note like the one Sammy sent me, do you? I just let the suit go on, of course. It has not been decided yet, but I expect to gain it." At this, Uncle Chipperton grew very angry indeed. It was astonishing to see how quickly he blazed up.
Chipperton was not talking to him. "I'll tell you what I believe," said Corny, gasping. But it was of no use to wait to hear what she believed. I believed it myself. "Hello!" I cried to the shoemaker before I reached him. "Did a gentleman stay behind here?" "I didn't see none," said the man, looking up in surprise, as we charged on him. "Then," I cried, "he's shut down in that well!
Of course, we younger people enjoyed all these things, but I was surprised to see that Corny was more quiet than usual, and spent a good deal of her time in reading, although she would spring up and run to the railing whenever her father announced some wonderful discovery. Mr. Chipperton would have been a splendid man for Columbus to have taken along with him on his first trip to these islands.
There was only one table, and I couldn't write if I had wanted to, so I opened my trunk and began to put some of my things in order. We had arranged, before we had fallen out, that we should go home on the next steamer, and Mr. and Mrs. Chipperton were going too. We had been in Nassau nearly a month, and had seen about as much as was to be seen in an ordinary way.
With many apologies, which quite overwhelmed poor Evelyn, she was transferred from the little chamber, with its French bed and bamboo-coloured washhand-stand, to an apartment with a buhl wardrobe and a four-post bed with green silk curtains, usually appropriated to the regular Christmas visitant, the Dowager Countess of Chipperton.
But Uncle Chipperton wanted to plan and arrange everything until he was sure it was just right. That was his way.
It's like a big baby-carriage for twins, only it's pulled by a horse, and has a man in livery to drive it. The top's straw, and you get in in the middle, and sit both ways." "Either way, my dear," said Mrs. Chipperton. "Yes, either way," continued Corny. "Did you ever see a carriage like that?" "I surely never did," said I.
Before we went down to dinner, I asked Uncle Chipperton how his lung had stood it, through all this exposure. "Oh, bother the lung!" he said. "I tell you; boys, I've lost faith in that lung, at least, in there being anything the matter with it. I shall travel for it no more."
Chipperton he would go off with the boat. Directly Mr. Chipperton set up a yell. "Hi! hi! hi!" he cried. I ran down to the pier, and saw a row-boat approaching. "Hi!" cried Mr. Chipperton. "Come this way! Come here! Boat ahoy!" "We're coming!" shouted a man from the boat. "Ye needn't holler for us." And in a few more strokes the boat touched land. There were two men in it.
Before dark, we had to go below, for the captain said he didn't want any of us to roll overboard, and, besides, the spray from the high waves made the deck very wet and unpleasant. None of us liked it below. There was no place to sit but in the long saloon, where the dining-tables were, and after supper we all sat there and read. Mr. Chipperton had a lot of novels, and we each took one.
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