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All at once a voice called out, "Of course his bills are worth four hundred pounds; but, my good sir, four hundred pounds to a man in my position is not worth the getting. Why, I've given four hundred pounds for a freak of my girl Sarah! Is it right, eh, Jezebel? She's a good girl, though, as girls go. Mrs. Lionel Crofton, of the Crofts, Sevenoaks, Kent Sevenoaks, Kent Seven "
When the captain's shout reached the cabin Jim Crofts had just said: "I'll tell 'ee what it is, messmates, if this here state of things goes on much longer, I'll go out on the floes, walk up to the first polar bear I meet, and ask him to take his supper off me!"
Let her be up here at two. Grimes can bring her box round, I suppose." "Oh, yes: of course." "And don't be talking to her about money before she starts. I had rather you didn't; you understand. But when you see Crofts, tell him to come to me. Indeed, he'd better come at once, if this thing is to go on quickly."
The more he argued the more angry Gerty got, and at last she ses, "Two's company and three's none, and if you and me can't go out without George Crofts, then me and 'im 'll go out with-out you." She was as good as her word, too, and the next night, while Bob 'ad gone out to get some 'bacca, she went off alone with George.
"Wait, only wait a few minutes," answered Mary, laying her hand eagerly on Crofts' arm. "How kind it is of you to think of this. You will wait, I am sure. I I will get something!" "Very well, we will take out the others first," said Crofts, who was very kindly disposed toward the little girl; "be quick, though." Mary went out in breathless haste.
The conversation turned upon the extraordinary appearance of the ambassadors. I know not where that fool Crofts had heard that all these Muscovites had handsome wives; and that all their wives had handsome legs.
I believe the squire had made up his mind that he would not let the place." "I don't think he ever has let it." "And if there was nobody in it, it would all go to rack and ruin; wouldn't it? Had your mamma to pay anything for the lodgings she engaged at Guestwick?" "Upon my word, I don't know. Bell can tell you better about that than I, as Dr Crofts settled it.
"The wild man o' the North himself, or my name aint Jim," said Crofts, turning pale. "Why, it's Davy Butts, I do believe," cried Sam Baker, who came on deck at that moment. Just then the bear came tearing round the end of the hummocks in full chase. "Hurrah! hallo! ho!" roared the men, who had crowded on deck at the first note of alarm.
There was a bay window in the room. I promise you they got little enough from me. There was my namesake, Sir Nicholas Bacon, my lords Leicester and Pembroke, and Mr. Secretary Cecil; Sir James Crofts, the Controller of the Household, and one or two more; but these were the principal. I was set before the table on a chair alone with none to guard me; but with men at the doors I knew very well.
Some like George Crofts and Baxendale Strangeways she had feared, though in her manner she had tried to conceal her dread of their violence. Well! she had taken a lot of money off the rich, but she had never plundered the poor. Her greatest conquest and that when she was a woman of forty was the monarch of this very country which now lay crushed under the Kaiser's heel.
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