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With that, we hauled her up a little, and almost at the same moment I saw the boat rising on a wave. By that time, it was an oar's length from the ship. "They say they can't pull back," shouted Mr. Chipperton. "Don't let her down any further." "All right!" I roared back at him. "We'll bring her in another boat," and I began to pull up with all my might.
I don't know what kind of a business man Mr. Chipperton was, but when Rectus told him that he had written a letter to his father which would make the thing all right, he was perfectly satisfied; and the next day we all went out in a sail-boat to the coral-reef, and had a splendid time, and the "Tigress" went off without any Chippertons. I think Mr.
I was glad he enjoyed it so much, for he paid for the whole dinner for ten, which had been prepared at his order. When we reached the street, Uncle Chipperton put on a graver look. "This is all truly very funny," he said, "but, after all, there is something about it which makes me feel ashamed of myself. Would you object to take a ride? It is only about eight o'clock.
Chipperton, getting up and taking us each by the hand, "I don't know what to say to you." I thought, for my part, that they had all said enough already. They had praised and thanked us for things we had never thought of. "I almost wish you were orphans," he continued, "so that I might adopt you. But a boy can't have more than one father.
He went straight through it, from one end to the other. And there was no ill-feeling, no discord, no cloud of any kind. All perfectly harmonious, wasn't it, Will?" "Perfectly," said I. "I just wish I had known about it," said Rectus, a little sadly. "And now, Mr. Colbert," said Uncle Chipperton, "I don't want this to happen again. There may be other reunions of this kind, and we may want to go.
Chipperton, who was a really sensible woman when she had a chance, objected to this, because, she said, it would be better to let the old woman alone now. We couldn't do anything for her after we left, and it would be better to let her depend on her own exertions, now that she had got started again on that track.
Chipperton put the whole thing down as the result of his lecture to Rectus up in the silk-cotton tree. For several days after our hot chase after Priscilla, we saw nothing of this ex-emissary. Indeed, we began to be afraid that something had happened to her. She was such a regular attendant at the hotel-door-market, that people were talking about missing her black face and her chattering tongue.
Chipperton, "and I would have told the people what I thought of them.
"It would never have done for you to have exposed your lung to such a scene of turmoil and confusion." "Bother my lung!" cried Mr. Chipperton, who was now growing quite excited. "I would never have stood tamely by, and witnessed such vile injustice " "We didn't stand tamely by," said I. "We ran wildly after the unjust one." "I would have stood up before that crowd," continued Mr.
Then he took it all in, or at least I supposed he did, for he sat down on a chair near the door, and burst out into the wildest fit of laughing. The waiters came running into the room to see what was the matter; but for several minutes Uncle Chipperton could not speak. He laughed until I thought he'd crack something. I laughed, too, but not so much. "I see it all," he gasped, at last.
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