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I understood only that she was frantic with anxiety, and might have offered further remonstrance had it not been for the sudden defection of Crump. He edged a little nearer, and gently jogged my elbow.
But now " She shook her head with hard emphasis. "She has been through a good deal," observed Mrs. Grace mildly. "No more'n I have!" was the retort. "If she'd stop thinking about herself and eat like other folks, she'd be better." "Nervous prostration patients have to be careful about their diet, don't they?" ventured Miss Mullaly. "She hasn't got it!" snapped Mrs. Crump. "She thinks she has."
"At all events, we shall be safe till daylight, as the tide won't go down for some hours after then," observed Dixie; "and by that time it will be curious if Captain Crump doesn't send to look for us." On hearing this, I proposed that we should fire off our rifles from the summit of the tower, when probably the sound would reach him. Just as we were about to do so, Carlos exclaimed
High overhead was the sun, and very warm indeed on that day in the fore part of February 1850, when the two children were put on Old Crump to see if he would let them ride. The two small children were placed in the pockets on each side, face outward, and they could stand or sit as they should choose.
Mary's situated on the Basseterre side of the little Cul de Sac, and committed the execution of it to the colonels Crump and Clavering: but the night appointed for the service proved exceedingly dark and tempestuous; and the negro conductors were so frightened, that they ran several of the flat-bottomed boats on the shoals that skirt this part of the island.
"Can it be a New Year's present? Bring it in, Jack." It was brought in immediately, and the cover being lifted there appeared a female child, of apparently a year old. All uttered exclamations of surprise, each in itself characteristic. "What a dear, innocent little thing!" said Mrs. Crump, with true maternal instinct. "Ain't it a pretty 'un?" said Jack, admiringly.
"I suppose," she said, "that she has the best claim to her; but it will be a terrible thing for us to part with her." "Don't let us trouble ourselves in that way," said the cooper. "It seems to me very natural that they should keep her a little longer than they intended. Besides, it is not too late for her to return to-night." This cheered Mrs. Crump a little. The evening passed slowly.
Woolsey and Eglantine were rivals in many ways rivals in fashion, rivals in wit, and, above all, rivals for the hand of an amiable young lady whom we have already mentioned, the dark-eyed songstress Morgiana Crump. They were both desperately in love with her, that was the truth; and each, in the absence of the other, abused his rival heartily.
Lord, I wish our old cross Captain Crump would go over to the rebels, that Nosebag might get the troop! Lord, what can Bridoon be standing swinging on the bridge for? I'll be hanged if he a'nt hazy, as Nosebag says. Come, sir, as you and I belong to the service, we'll go put the rascal in mind of his duty.
Crump and her daughter bounced into the room. "Here we are, Mr. E," cries Mrs. Crump, in a gay folatre confidential air. "But law! there's a gent in the room!" "Don't mind me, ladies," said the gent alluded to, in his fascinating way. "I'm a friend of Eglantine's; ain't I, Egg? a chip of the old block, hay?" "THAT you are," said the perfumer, starting up. "An 'air-dresser?" asked Mrs. Crump.
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