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Silence followed the word, a breathless silence. Derrick sat perfectly motionless, his fingers gripping his hair. At last Averil moved up to him, a little frightened by his stillness, and very intensely compassionate. She bent and touched his shoulder. "Dick!" she said. "Dick! Don't!" He stirred under her hand, but did not raise his head. "Get away, Averil!" he muttered. "You don't understand."
"I hope they've made you as comfortable as possible, Mr. Green. I've brought a friend of yours with me, and I have a message from another friend of yours, Miss Grant. She says she will pay you a visit whenever you like to see her." Derrick shook his head. "I don't want her to come here," he said. "But I'm very glad to see Mr. Clendon." "By the way," cut in Mr.
I little thought a son of mine would ever have been so wanting in spirit as to prefer dabbling in ink to a life of action to be the scribbler of mere words, rather than an officer of dragoons." Then to my astonishment Derrick sprang to his feet in hot indignation.
They were always anxious to help us or cheer us on our way. We passed a dredge that evening and saw a man at work with a team and scoop shovel, the method being to scoop up the gravel and sand, then dump it in an iron car. This was then pulled by the horses to the top of a derrick up a sloping track and dumped.
"Ah," he said, as he bit off the end, and leaned over to the emblematic masterpiece, where the brandy was still feebly flickering, "I wonder if there's enough natural gas left to light my cigar." His effort put the flame out and knocked the derrick over; it broke in fragments on the table.
The pilot-fish only deserted their master when the derrick hauled him out of the water, and at the same time some dozen remoras, or sucking-fish, looking like disgusted bloated leeches, let go their hold on the shark and dropped back into the sea. No human being would voluntarily pay a second visit to Colon, a dirty, mean collection of shanties, with inhabitants worthy of it.
All I could gather was that Lawrence had been tremendously feted, that Freda had been present, and that poor old Derrick was as miserable as he could be when I next saw him.
No, I'm not married already," he added, with a grim smile, as he saw the question in Sidcup's eyes. "The fact is, I'm an outcast and a pariah. Sounds melodramatic, doesn't it? But it's the truth. And you can tell Isabel so, if you like." Sidcup laughed bitterly. "Do you think that would make any difference to her?" he retorted. "You don't know much about women " "I don't!" interjected Derrick.
Derrick and his wife and his daughter had gone after the fire at Hinksey Park had completed the ruin which disastrous speculations had begun; and at the gate of one of the cottages the riders stopped and dismounted. "I shall not see you again after to-day," said Stella. "Will you come in for a moment?" Thresk gave the horses to a passing labourer to hold and opened the gate.
Floors, doors, and rafters made a great variety of angles; every room had a particular inclination; the gable had tilted towards the garden, after the manner of a leaning tower, and one of the former proprietors had buttressed the building from that side with a great strut of wood, like the derrick of a crane.
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