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He took the ten kroner which Lasse had given him so that he might buy a much-needed winter overcoat, and went in to the master, who was in the cutting-out room, and laid them on the table. The master looked at him with a wondering expression, but there was a light in his eyes. "What the devil is that?" he asked, drawling. "That's master's money," said Pelle, with averted face.
"Should the boats get up with us, we must try and beat them off; we were not afraid of the ship herself, and those Frenchmen, though brave enough, are not like our own fellows in cutting-out affairs. See to the guns, however, and get ammunition up on deck, for, should they come, we mayn't have much time to spare."
Swoop! and the dancing hands fell upon the cutting-out knife, and the master fingered the notes on the sharp edge, his head on one side and his eyes closed his whole appearance that of one absorbed in intent inward listening.
A bee was formed, and in a couple of days the roof was replaced, and in less than a week the house again habitable. The winter was drawing to an end. It had not appeared very long, after all everybody had been so busy. Michael and his sons were now at work cutting-out troughs for sugar making. In Canada the maple yields a sap which, when boiled, turns into sugar.
It reminded one of the old "Die-hards" at Waterloo, filling up their squares torn and ravaged by the pelting grape-shot. Here, as elsewhere, she pursued her favorite amusement remorselessly. Fallowfield called it "her cutting-out expeditions."
It was three months after the Box Tunnel that Captain Dolignan called one day upon Captain Haythorn, R. N., whom he had met twice in his life, and slightly propitiated by violently listening to a cutting-out expedition; he called, and in the usual way asked permission to pay his addresses to his daughter.
'I think Anthea's right, but we shall want a most awful lot of feathers. 'I'll go down to the hen-house, said Robert. 'There's one of the turkeys in there it's not very well. I could cut its feathers without it minding much. It's very bad doesn't seem to care what happens to it. Get me the cutting-out scissors.
He took the ten kroner which Lasse had given him so that he might buy a much-needed winter overcoat, and went in to the master, who was in the cutting-out room, and laid them on the table. The master looked at him with a wondering expression, but there was a light in his eyes. "What the devil is that?" he asked, drawling. "That's master's money," said Pelle, with averted face.
There was no chance therefore of our being surprised, should the enemy have discovered our real character. It became, however, hopeless for us to attempt cutting-out any of the vessels, as we should not have had sufficient wind to carry them off, even when we had taken possession.
And what would Clara have said, had she been at home? Then Shillitoe in person came forward from the cutting-out room and Shillitoe's tone and demeanour reassured him. Accident that is to say, a chance somewhat more fortuitous than the common hazards which we group together and call existence pushed Edwin into the next stage of his career.
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