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Warcraft learnt in a breath, Knowledge unto occasion at the first far view of Death?" I suddenly found myself dumped down at Duffer's Drift with the same orders as already detailed, and an equal detachment composed of entirely different men. As before, and on every subsequent occasion, I had ample stores, ammunition, and tools.
"I thought we'd make them plans for Tarrytown," Cronk said presently. "We might as well get to work as to be lazin' about. Don't ye think so?" "Well, I were a thinkin' of stayin' here for awhile," stuttered Lem. "What for?" "Nothin' perticular." "Ye know where that rich duffer's house be what ye heard Middy Burnes speak about?" "Yep. It ain't far from the graveyard.
Upon the other side of the ground the Caterpillar was saying to his father, "I always said he was hairy at the heel." It was admitted afterwards that the Duffer's performance was the one really bright spot in Harrow's second innings. Being a bowler, he went in last but one. It happened that Fluff's brother was in possession of the ball.
This is the worst of it this ambition of the duffer's, this desire for perfection, as if the golfing imbecile should match himself against Mr. Horace Hutchinson, or as the sow of the Greek proverb challenged Athene to sing. I know it all, I deplore it, I regret the evils of ambition; but c'est plus fort que moi.
His airy nest-mate seemed amenable to conversation. "Well, well!" he resumed, "so that was the way you worked it. Wouldn't that make the doctor mad, though what was the old duffer's name, anyway? You did tell me, but I've got such a poor memory now, yours is good, I'll bet a hat."
But, luckily for me, before more could be said, the face began slowly to fade away like that of the Cheshire Puss in "Alice in Wonderland," leaving nothing but the awful frown across the sky. This too finally dissolved, and the whole scene changed. I had another dream. "Sweet are the uses of adversity." Once more was I fated to essay the task of defending Duffer's Drift.
Gus repeated, this time avowedly for the edification of another young fellow who was busily engaged in sousing his head in the water of the lake. "What are you grumbling about, anyway?" Hazard Van Dorn lifted a soap-rimmed face questioningly. His eyes were shut. "What's our luck?" "Look there!" Gus threw a moody glance skyward. "Some duffer's got ahead of us. We've been scooped, that's all!"
Then she plunged at once into business. Did he know the boys who attended that school? Some of them he did, better than he wanted to; and a precious set they were, in Policeman Duffer's opinion. "Might as well go out to the Zoo," he declared, "and get a set of animals and try to tame 'em." Mrs. Roberts was not in the mood to argue; she was bent on information.
I took supper about seven at Duffer's; I went to Glauber's drug-store next and got a glass of soda water; if they don't know me, they'll remember my breaking a glass; then I made a visit at Mr.
Duffer's early service, eight o'clock; and Fridays and Wednesdays and all the saints' days, and decorating for the great festivals perhaps a little too much of that, but on Whitsunday the chancel was lovely, was it not, Mrs. Carnegie?" Mrs. Carnegie nodded her acquiescence. "Then I have a green-house at last, and that gives me something to do. I should like to show you my green-house, Bessie.
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