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"La, sir!" said she, "I did'nt expect to see you!" "Where are Miss Julia and my brother?" "Why, la, sir! I was just agoing to ask you. Miss Julia had a letter from you about a week ago, and she and Mr. Henry went off in a poshay together next day. They said they would be back to-day."
Stepping to the door, he found him seated very composedly in the yard, working busily upon a toy he was fashioning with a knife from a piece of wood. "Why do you remain outside, Edward, after the other boys are called in?" said the master. "Cos I did'nt come in, sir," replied Ned, without looking up, or even pausing in his employment.
Yes, I did, Mr. Higgins. And that's what mortifies me. He's dead, you see, poor fellow. T'was'nt my fault that I did'nt keep my promise. There'll be no whales to kill where he's gone, poor fellow!" Again he shook his head feelingly, then raising his hat, wiped the sweat from his bronzed brow. He now sent for Tite, who came upon the quarter-deck nervously, and saluted his superior.
If I did'nt quilt him in no time, you may depend; I went right slap into him, like a flash of lightning into a gooseberry bush. He found his suit ready made and fitted afore he thought he was half measured.
They fixed the tent amidst the trees at the edge of the chapparel, and made it larger and more abiding with the aid of the dinghy's sail. Amidst these occupations, wonders, and pleasures, the children lost all count of the flight of time. They rarely asked about Mr Lestrange; after a while they did'nt ask about him at all. Children soon forget.
I told them frankly that I'd let drive among them some night with a double-barrelled gun, loaded with powder and duck-shot and I meant it. But those cats did'nt believe a word I said. They did'nt believe I had any powder and shot.
He was only a baby when freedom came, but he too, "stayed on" a long time afterward. He did not know his real name, but he was given his Massy's name. "Don't ask me how much work I had to do. Gracious! I used to plow and hoed a lot and everything else and then did'nt do enough. I got too many whippings besides." "Our Boss man, he had "planty" of slaves. We lived in a log houses.
He dreaded Cecil's powers of entertainment too much, and it made him angry to hear how he was making Alice laugh. Then, when the four came into the house, this offending couple took no notice of them at all, but continued walking up and down in the garden, till Jim, who, not being in love, did'nt care twopence whether his sister came in or not, went out to the verandah, and called out "Hi!"
He was a univarsal favorite with the galls, and tho' he did'nt behave very pretty neither, forgetting to marry where he promised, and where he had'nt ought to have forgot too; yet, so it was, he had such an uncommon winnin way with him, he could talk them over in no time Sall was fairly bewitched.
Who do you mean by they?" "Why, whoever they were who carried her off." I could not suppress the "bah!" that rose to my lips. Mr. Gryce might have been able to, but I am not Gryce. "You don't believe," said she, "that she was carried off?" "Well, no," said I, "not in the sense you mean." She gave another nod back to the police station now a block or so distant. "He did'nt seem to doubt it at all."
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