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Presently, coming round to the front garden, wheels were heard grating on the gravel, and Brandon's voice shouted, "Swan, Swan, I say, is young Crayshaw here?" "No, sir," Swan shouted in reply; "not as I know of."
It may be hoped," she continued, looking round, "that other accents are not catching either." Crayshaw, choosing to take this hint as a compliment, smiled sweetly. "I guess I'm speaking better than usual," he observed, "for my brother and his folks air newly come from the Ste-ates, and I've been with them.
"I'm like a good clock," said Crayshaw, "I neither gain nor lose. I can strike, too. But how did you find out, sir, that I never gained any prizes?" "Don't you, sir?" "Never, sir I never gained one in my life, sir. But I say, I wish you'd take these shavings down again." "No, I won't," answered Swan, "if I'm to be 'sirred' any more, and the young ladies made to laugh at me."
Crayshaw a fit man for his responsible post? Had he ever heard rumours to the man's discredit? Replies that must do for a wife will not always answer a man who puts the same questions.
Brandon walked with an infallible stride, and that you were the most consecutive of any one he had ever met with." "But, my dear little girl, Crayshaw would not have known that unless you had told him; do you think that was the right thing to do by a guest?" Gladys blushed. "But, father," said Barbara, "I suppose Cray may come now; Conyngham goes to-morrow.
"Four," Valentine went on, "'The City of the Skunk, an Ode. Now, Cray, it is of no use your saying you did not write this, for you sent me a copy, and told me that was the poetical name for Chicago." "Well," said Crayshaw, "I tried that subject because Mr.
There was a whispered tradition that he had once been in jail for a misuse of his acquirements in the art of penmanship; and if you heard his name cropping up in the confidential conversation of such neighbours as small farmers, the postman, the parish overseer, and the like, it was sure to be linked with unpleasingly suggestive expressions, such as "a dirty bit of business," "a nasty job that," "an awkward affair," "very near got into trouble," "a bit of bother about it, but Driver and Quills pulled him through; theirs isn't a nice business, and they're men of t' same feather as Crayshaw, so I reckon they're friends."
John Mortimer sat together in the house the party adjourned to the orchard, and Crayshaw presently appeared with a small box in which had hitherto been concealed his own gifts of like nature. Among them were two gold lockets, one for each of the twins. "I helped him to choose them," said Johnnie, "and he borrowed the money of his brother." "There's nothing in them," observed Barbara.
"She is so very young," thought the warm-hearted step-mother. "She will soon forget it." She took Gladys with her, and after their short drive managed that they should be together when young Crayshaw appeared; and she helped her through a certain embarrassment and inclination to contradict herself while answering his reproachful inquiries respecting Blob, his dog.
"But it wath a great lark," observed Johnnie, "and he knowth he thought tho." "Yes," said Crayshaw, folding his hands with farcical mock meekness, "but I saved hardly anything nothing whatever, in fact, but my Yankee accent, and that only by taking it between my teeth." "There was not enough of it to be worth saving, my dear boy," said Brandon.
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