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Be careful of it, and don't waste the iron," shouted Christy, when the decisive moment came. "All ready, sir," responded the men along the rail. "You are the man, Boxie! You are in the right place for the first shot," added the midshipman. Boxie was next to him, and it would be Christy's turn next if the old man failed to do good work with his shot.
I say, go and see Christy's Minstrels when you're in town, and get them to let Jockabilly do the break-down. It will make you split. If that French chap is hanging about, tip him a bob for me and be civil to him, because he was decent enough to me. Auntie Eva said something about your bringing a gentleman home with you. I hope he's a jolly sort of chap. Rosalind's temper is all anyhow.
We are now settled in it, in very comfortable quarters. There is a restaurant down below, where the son of the late Yturbide dines daily, and everybody points him out to us, and moralises over him. Mr. Christy's drawer-roll of letters of introduction has produced an immediate crop of pleasant acquaintances, whose hospitality is boundless.
They are of hard stone, very heavy and covered with carvings. It is remarkable that, though the altars for human sacrifices are no longer to be found, these accessory stone clamps, or yoke-like collars, are not uncommon. A fine one from Mr. Christy's collection is figured. The obsidian knives and arrow-heads are very good, but these I have spoken of already, as well as of the stone hammers.
"No revolvers, Christophe!" said the detective earnestly, as he placed himself by the side of the young man. Christy's revolver was in his hip-pocket, where he usually carried it, and the detective feared he might use it, for both of them could hardly withstand the pressure upon them; and the firing of a single shot would have roused the passions of the mob, and led to no little bloodshed.
If they do not come to me of their own free will, I may be forced to ask the officer to come down and identify the boys, in which case both will from that instant cease to be members of Fernhurst School." In a state of high excitement the school poured down to tea. "I bet it's someone in Christy's," said Bradford. Christy believed in leaving his house entirely to his prefects.
Christy's bed was just behind them, when they had seated themselves; and he dropped down on his blanket, rolled it about him as well as he could, and then pretended to be asleep, as Percy was still, in spite of the noise of the escaping steam on board of the boat. "What have you done with your men, Captain Pecklar?" asked the major.
Your father accepted an offer from Jarrett you remember him, he has been down here; he is your father's broker and chief creditor and everything else is to go to Christy's at once. 'Then there is no more to be said. She gave Dick her hand. 'You won't mind if I don't come to the station with you? 'Won't you come up to London? he asked again. She shook her head. 'I want to be alone.
The consequence is, that, between these jarring systems, the poor birds have had a most trying and unhappy time of it. Many have fallen victims to Christy's feeding and Master Simon's physicking; for the latter has gone to work secundum artem, and has given them all the vomitings and scourings laid down in the books; never were poor hawks so fed and physicked before.
Rosalind tossed her head when she heard of it, and hoped he might enjoy himself. Tom failed to see why, when there was football in the air at Maxfield, any one could be bothered to travel up to London for pleasure, unless indeed he intended to take a season ticket for Christy's Minstrels. Altogether Roger did not feel elated at the prospect of this visit.
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