Vietnam or Thailand ? Vote for the TOP Country of the Week !
Updated: May 26, 2025
After this there was another short breathing-space; a thin stream of blood was trickling from Grundy's nasal organ, while Diggory and Mugford noticed with aching hearts that their comrade was beginning to look rather limp, and was getting short of breath.
James Standing, the first mate, took charge of these matters; Reuben Hawkshaw assisting Diggory Beggs in all things relating to the stores. Greatly were the provision merchants of the town surprised at the quality of the provisions that Master Beggs ordered for the use of the Swan.
"There," he said, rising to his feet again; "we'll do this the last thing every night, and any morning if we find the cotton gone we must look here for footprints, and then we ought to be able to tell if it's a man or a boy." "Don't you think we ought to tell Blake about that man you saw?" asked Acton, as they walked back to the schoolroom. "Well, I don't see how we can," answered Diggory.
"There's some one in the playground," whispered Diggory, as the others crowded round him. "You see the door at the bottom of the garden; well, just when I spoke some one opened it and looked up at the house, and then shut it again. It must have been Blake, and he's seen our light."
Jack Vance looked at Mugford, and Mugford looked at Diggory. "Well, I'm jiggered!" whispered the latter, and once more returned to his examination paper. At eleven o'clock there was a quarter of an hour's interval. Being still, as it were, strangers in a strange land, the three friends kept pretty close together.
"Of course we didn't the safe had been robbed before we went there but it looks as if we'd done it; and if they find out we got into the house, I don't see how we're going to prove that we're innocent." There was a short silence; then Diggory spoke. "Look here, Jack: I was the one who proposed going inside the place; shall I tell your guv'nor?"
He continued to affirm that it must be the man he had seen in the playground on the occasion of the first meeting of the supper club; and that the footprint in the dust had been a man's, and much larger than Kennedy's boot could have produced. This outlawing of the "Main-top" and difference of opinion with Diggory spoiled all chance of games and good fellowship.
O, I couldn't live in a street for the world! Egdon is a ridiculous old place; but I have got used to it, and I couldn't be happy anywhere else at all." "Neither could I," said Clym. "Then how could you say that I should marry some town man? I am sure, say what you will, that I must marry Diggory, if I marry at all.
The boys wandered disconsolately through the booking-office of the little country station, and halted outside to consider what was to be done. "It's five-and-twenty past four," said Jack Vance, looking at his watch, "and it's a good six miles by road; we shall never walk it in the time." "It's a good bit shorter by rail," mused Diggory, "if we could walk along the line.
And so saying, he plunged forward into the deep shadow of the archway. The ground seemed to be plentifully strewn with ashes, which scrunched under their feet as they plodded along, and their voices sounded hollow and strange. "My eye," said Jack, "it's precious dark. I can hardly see where I'm going." "It'll be darker still before we see the end," answered Diggory.
Word Of The Day
Others Looking