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"The great Captain Lovett!" he faltered. "Little Paul at the top of the profession! Lord, Lord! I always said as how he'd the hambition to rise!" "Well, well, but the father's name?" At this question the expression of Dummie's face fell; a sudden horror struggled to his eyes Why is it that at moments there creeps over us an awe, a terror, overpowering but undefined?
"There, boy," quoth she, and she stroked his head fondly when she spoke, "you does right not to play for nothing, it's loss of time; but play with those as be less than yoursel', and then you can go for to beat 'em if they says you go for to cheat!" Paul vanished; and the dame, laying her hand on Dummie's shoulder, said,
The father will scarcely thank you for finding his son! -Know, Dummie, that Paul is in jail, and that he is one and the same person as Captain Lovett!" Astonishment never wrote in more legible characters than she now displayed on the rough features of Dummie Dunnaker. So strong are the sympathies of a profession compared with all others, that Dummie's first confused thought was that of pride.
"Mine is a worse business than that, I fear;" and therewith Paul, in a lower voice, related to the trusty Dummie the train of accidents which had conducted him to his present asylum. Dummie's face elongated as he listened; however, when the narrative was over, he endeavoured such consolatory palliatives as occurred to him.
Dummie's face grew pale, for he was superstitiously affected by the vehemence and the language of the dying woman, and he answered, as he kissed the pretended Bible, that he swore to keep the secret, as much as he knew of it, which, she must be sensible, he said, was very little.
"There, boy," quoth she, and she stroked his head fondly when she spoke, "you does right not to play for nothing, it's loss of time; but play with those as be less than yoursel', and then you can go for to beat 'em if they says you go for to cheat!" Paul vanished; and the dame, laying her hand on Dummie's shoulder, said,
"The great Captain Lovett!" he faltered. "Little Paul at the top of the profession! Lord, Lord! I always said as how he'd the hambition to rise!" "Well, well, but the father's name?" At this question the expression of Dummie's face fell; a sudden horror struggled to his eyes Why is it that at moments there creeps over us an awe, a terror, overpowering but undefined?
"Mine is a worse business than that, I fear;" and therewith Paul, in a lower voice, related to the trusty Dummie the train of accidents which had conducted him to his present asylum. Dummie's face elongated as he listened; however, when the narrative was over, he endeavoured such consolatory palliatives as occurred to him.
The father will scarcely thank you for finding his son! -Know, Dummie, that Paul is in jail, and that he is one and the same person as Captain Lovett!" Astonishment never wrote in more legible characters than she now displayed on the rough features of Dummie Dunnaker. So strong are the sympathies of a profession compared with all others, that Dummie's first confused thought was that of pride.
Dummie's face grew pale, for he was superstitiously affected by the vehemence and the language of the dying woman, and he answered, as he kissed the pretended Bible, that he swore to keep the secret, as much as he knew of it, which, she must be sensible, he said, was very little.
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