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But we'll be fit as fiddles when we get some of them cakes stowed amidships, and ballast 'em down with a few swallers of that coffee. There ain't everybody that can b'ile coffee like you, Clemmie." "Don't be foolish, Josiah." After a very light breakfast, Mr. McGowan excused himself from the table, saying he must do some work on his sermon before the church hour.
"It ain't no joke," said the Captain, motioning Mr. McGowan to come nearer. "I give you my word, it ain't, Clemmie. There's Adoniah Phillips' son." With a smothered exclamation Miss Pipkin dropped back against the table. "You you " But she ended with a gasp for breath and words. "The Cap'n is telling you the truth," confirmed the minister.
It is painted red, and gives a lot of amusement to the wounded. The trains are very long, and my small carriage is useful for cups and basins, bread, soup, coffee, etc. Clemmie Waring designed and sent it to me. To-day I was giving out my soup on the train and three shells came in in quick succession. One came just over my head and lodged in a haystall on the other side of the platform.
Her face was long and thin, and now age and worry had dug deeply into the homely features, obliterating the last trace of middle life. She always dressed in black, and to-day the Captain saw that her clothes were worn and faded. He moved uneasily as his quick eye took in the meaning of these signs. "I cal'late they're working you too hard here, Clemmie," he said tenderly.
I never heard you talk so in all my born days. If you ain't sick, you're in a heap of trouble. Now, do as I tell you and set down. Tell me what's wrong, that is if that's what you come down for." "That's why I come down, Clemmie," he said, slouching into one of the kitchen chairs. "I heerd you come down-stairs, and I just had to follow.
"You'd see him stop for you, wouldn't you? I'd not give it a second thought, I'd just " "That ain't it, Clemmie. There's his darter, the sweetest little thing that God ever made. It would kill her, and I ain't got no right to hurt her just to save my own skin." "You're right, Josiah." "But what I'm to do, I don't know." Mr.
As the door to the study closed the Captain pushed back his plate and chair. He slid the latter round the end of the table, and placed it by Miss Pipkin. "For the lan' sakes, Josiah! You ain't going to make love to me this morning, be you?" "I ain't sartin, Clemmie. It depends on your partic'lar frame of mind," he replied slowly, a quiet kindness in his old eyes.
Something in his tone made her look up into the face framed in the crack of the door. "Josiah!" she cried at sight of the drawn features. He threw open the door and entered. "Mr. McGowan ain't sick this morning, is he?" she asked. "No. Leastwise he wa'n't when I passed the time of night or early morning with him on my way to bed." "Are you sick, Josiah?" "What I got might be called that, Clemmie.
I think the campaign here is nearly over. It might have been a lot bigger, for the Germans were bribing like mad, but you can't make a Persian wake up. Ever, dear Clemmie, Your loving S. MACNAUGHTAN. So nice to know you think of me, as I know you do. 26 March. I am getting stronger, and the days are bright.
Is that what you said?" He nodded. "You brought him here from the city yesterday?" The seaman shook his head. "He come long afore that." "Where've you been keeping him? Ain't you going to fetch him out?" she cried, rising. "I'll go get him." "Wait, Clemmie. It's been nigh onto twenty-five year since he was born, so he ain't a baby. Let Mack fetch him. Mack!" called the Captain sharply.
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