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His callin' me Torchy, I mean. She does her best, too, to get him to change it to Daddy. But that word don't seem to be on 'Ikky-boy's list at all. He picked up the Torchy all by himself and he seems to want to stick to it. I don't mind. Maybe it ain't just the thing for a son and heir to spring on a perfectly good father, chucklin' over it besides, but it sounds quite all right to me.
Dowd, chucklin' easy to himself, had allowed how he would. "To your complete satisfaction, Ellins," says he, "or no money passes. And within the week." As I takes another look down at the little grass plot on the roof I has to admit that the Hon. Matt knew what he was talkin' about. He sure had turned the trick. Kind of clever of him, too, havin' the window marked and all that.
And it would be fun, wouldn't it, sailing off for that enchanted coast to hunt for a real treasure island?" "'Yo, ho, ho, and a bottle of rum!" roars out Mr. Ellins. It's the battiest remark I ever heard him make. I was lookin' for Auntie to throw some sort of a fit. But she don't. She comes nearer chucklin' than anything else. "Mr. Ellins," says she, "I think perhaps I have misjudged you.
I'd gone on, wonderin' where he had blown in from, and chucklin' over that fancy tinted beard, when the first thing I knew here he was at my elbow lookin' down on me. "Forgive, sahib, but you have the face of a kindly one," says he. "Well, I'm no consistent grouch, if that's what you mean," says I. "What'll it be?"
And when he does get to New Bedford, chucklin' over the way he's befooled his sister and her folks, I'm blessed if he didn't find that the town had gone no-license, and every saloon was shut up! Ho! ho! ho! Well, I felt about the way he did, I guess, when I stood on the steps of your Fifth Avenue house and realized you'd gone away. I wouldn't have had Abbie see me there for somethin'. Ho! ho!"
'So ye call him Pegasus, sez Doc Smith, grinnin'; 'I didn't known ye was subject to the divine afflatus, Dan'l. 'I don' offen hev it, sez I, 'but when I do I find a little straight gin does me good. 'So did Byron, sez he, chucklin'. But even if I had called him 'Beelzebub' the hull town would hev bin jest as crazy over him.
Robert had doped out his motions correct; for a week goes by and no Mr. Ballard shows up to take the rubber stamp away from me, or even ask fool questions. I was hopin' too that Ballard had gone a long ways from here, accordin' to custom. Then one night well, it was at the theater, one of them highbrow Shaw plays that I was chucklin' through with Aunt Zenobia. Eh? Remember her, don't you?
"'Hi, there, Lory! says Raven; 'wherever did you get the corkin' white un? "'Sh-h-h! you damn fool, says Lory. "'The hell you say! whispers Raven, reins aside, chucklin' low to the two of us, and with a knee-press which I knew meant, 'Sol, jist you watch 'em!
I wouldn't if I was you. Then he went away, chucklin'." "Chucklin', hey? What made him so joyful?" "Don't know" Captain Sol's face clouded once more "and I care less," he added brusquely. Simeon pondered. "Have you heard from Abner Payne, Sol?" he asked. "Has Ab answered that letter you wrote sayin' you'd swap your lot for the Main Street one?" "No, he hasn't.
And allow me to say that I believe you have done for the Government a great service tonight; though how you managed it so neatly I'll be hanged if I see. And er I think that will be all." With which he urges me polite towards the door. But it wasn't all. Not quite. I hear there's something on the way to me from the chief himself, and Old Hickory has been chucklin' around for three days.
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