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Maitland, sinking into a deck-chair beside Sophy's chaperon, "do you intend anything to come of that?" and she nodded at a pair who, with heads fairly near, were leaning over the side, engrossed in watching the divers at Aden. "What do you mean?" "It's rather a case, is it not? First love and an early marriage!" "If you mean Sophy and young Shafto, why, they haven't a bad sixpence between them!"
"I came," Da Souza answered, "in both our interests chiefly in my own!" "I can believe that," Trent answered shortly, "now speak up. Tell me what you want." Da Souza groaned and sank down upon a vacant deck-chair. "I will sit down," he said, "I am not well! The sea disagrees with me horribly. Well, well, you want to know why I came here! I can answer that question by another.
"Been looking after that fellow cleanin' my gun, my dear," John explained, shambling toward the deck-chair. Later Broomhurst stood at his own tent door. He looked up at the star-sown sky, and the heavy silence seemed to press upon him like an actual, physical burden. He took his cigar from between his lips presently, and looked at the glowing end reflectively before throwing it away.
It was one of the few cases where it was possible for an assistant master to fulfil his duty to a parent directly, instead of through the agency of the headmaster. Knocking out the ashes of his pipe against a tree, he folded his deck-chair and went into the house. The examination papers were spread invitingly on the table, but they would have to wait.
Mr. Joseph P. Mangles, at his ease in a deck-chair on the broad Atlantic, was smoking a most excellent cigar. Mr. Mangles was a tall, thin man, who carried his head in the manner curtly known at a girls' school as "poking." He was a clean-shaven man, with bony forehead, sunken cheeks, and an underhung mouth. His attitude towards the world was one of patient disgust.
Val made that most momentous trip in four easy stages, resting on the big chair where Rupert had spent so many hours, on the bench by the window, in the first of the deck-chairs by the side of the French doors leading to the terrace, and then he reached the haven of the last deck-chair and settled down just where he had intended.
Amid the commiseration of his friends, among whom was, of course, Terence O'Meara, Jim, together with other sick men from the flagship's crew, was put into a steam-launch and conveyed to the gunboat, from the deck of which he watched, half an hour later, while comfortably seated in a deck-chair, the departure of the Chilian squadron, consisting of the Blanco Encalada, Almirante Cochrane, O'Higgins, Chacabuco, Magellanes, and Abtao, the last-named being filled with combustibles so that she might serve, if necessary, as a fire-ship.
"A sunny, sheltered corner," he remarked. "An ideal spot for a deck-chair and a book." She shrugged her shoulders half contemptuously. "I dare say," she replied, "but I never use it." "Sometimes, surely," he persisted mildly. "It would be my favourite retreat. But then " "I was going to say that I had never even been out on it, but that would not be quite true.
We will have bread and cheese, and oh, may Heaven our simple lives prevent from luxury's contagion, weak and vile! Till then, good-by." He strode off to recover his hat from the veranda, waved it to Mr. Cupples, and was gone. The old gentleman, seating himself in a deck-chair on the lawn, clasped his hands behind his head and gazed up into the speckless blue sky.
On a certain day in the June of the year mentioned, he was to the fore at his post of duty that is to say, he was extended idly over the extreme length of a comfortable deck-chair, and the hotel flottant was anchored at Point-de-Galle, a port at the southern extremity of Ceylon, and one of the reputed regions of the terrestrial paradise.
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