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And he had an excellent story to tell. Still Francois doddered. With his eye on the Colonel and the revolver sighted, Maurice picked up the sword. He gave Francois a vigorous prod. Francois needed no further inducement. He started forward with alacrity. In the wink of an eye he threw the cord around Beauvais's arms and pinned them to his sides.
Perhaps it was some such influence, as above is attempted to be described, which, in Captain Delano's mind, heightened whatever, upon a staid scrutiny, might have seemed unusual; especially the conspicuous figures of four elderly grizzled negroes, their heads like black, doddered willow tops, who, in venerable contrast to the tumult below them, were couched, sphynx-like, one on the starboard cat-head, another on the larboard, and the remaining pair face to face on the opposite bulwarks above the main-chains.
They send up their rough glory round the name of the gentleman a stranger, but their friend: and never is friend to be thought of as a stranger who manages to get the holiday for Wrensham and thereabout, that they may hurl away for one jolly day the old hat of a doddered humbleness, and trip to the strains of the internal music he has unwound. Says he: Is it a Charity Concert?
The afternoon was clear and still, the sun shining in the light blue sky, and the wind altogether hushed. On each side of the winding road spread the bright green turf, occasionally shaded by picturesque groups of doddered oaks. The calm beauty of the sylvan scene wonderfully touched the fancy of the youthful fugitive; it soothed and gratified him.
What did old Joe do but go right up and slap him on the back in that hearty way that old Worble went as near screaming as his weak state would let him! "Get up, Georgie Worble," shouted old Joe," and come round with me to Sam Waggs to arrange about that picnic!" Old Worble crooned and doddered, and feebly repeated "Picnic?" "Ah, picnic, young 'un; and you've just hit it. But GET UP, I say!"
Jeppe doddered to and fro, his hands behind his back. The rest of the day he was inclined to solemnity, and did his best to obliterate all remembrance of the punishment. "It was only for your own good!" he would say, in a propitiatory tone.
At a little distance was the whole band of children playing and building houses with peats around a huge doddered oak-tree, which was called Charlie's Bush, from some tradition respecting an old freebooter who had once inhabited the spot.
He even opened the shaving sets, the collar box, the pin cases, and the tie bag. Other persons pushed by toward the train, uttering their relief aloud. Still the inspector doddered on. "Will you hasten?" asked Hillard. "We do not wish to miss this train." "Others follow," said the inspector laconically. Hillard produced a five-franc piece. The inspector laughed without noise and shook his head.
Lived there a woman, herself excepted, who had not hesitated between two men a man who had not doddered between two women for better or for worse? What did the average woman know of the man, the average man know of the woman until afterward? To stake all upon a guess! She knew Cutty. Under her own eyes he had passed through certain proving fires.
If Kitty had any doubt as to the wisdom of her decision, the cold, gloomy rooms of her apartment dissipated them. She wandered through the rooms, musing, calling back animated scenes. What would the spirit of her mother say? Had she doddered between Conover and Cutty? Perhaps. But she had been one of the happy few who had guessed right.
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