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Robinson took Ede's hand with a haste and an energy that almost startled him, and his features darkened with an expression unusual now to his good-natured face. "To put down thieving in the camp," said he, sternly. "The camp is choke-full of them." Robinson looked blacker, uglier and more in earnest. So was his answer when it came. "Make stealing death by the law." "The law! What law?" "Lynch!"
"My dears," she said to her mates later on, "I don't mind telling you I was all of a twitter, first-along, wondering what card that man Oke was holding back he looked so sly and so sure of hisself. But if he've no better card to play than Seth Ede, we can sleep easy." "Seth Ede's a powerful strong oar," Bess Rablin objected. "Was, you mean.
A man named Billy Ede lived there then, and when my father burst into the kitchen bawling, 'Wreck! wreck! he saw Billy Ede's wife, Ann, standing there in her clogs with a shawl over her head, and her clothes wringing wet. "'Save the chap! says Billy Ede's wife, Ann. "'What d'ee mean by crying stale fish at that rate? "'But 'tis a wreck, I tell 'ee.
Then a second time from the golden ship a boat pushed out, cutting its way through the glassy sea and there landed on the beach a young man, very beautiful, in a suit of blue and gold, and he, without a glance at the waiting sailors, also slowly climbed the sea-path, and at last he too reached Farmer Ede's turnip field.
Long Ede, with his back to the fire, softly shook his feet free of the rugs. His eyes searched for the Gaffer's face. But the old man had drawn back into the gloom of his bunk, and the lamplight shone only on a grey fringe of beard. He saw Long Ede's look, though, and answered it quietly as ever. "Take a brace of guns aloft, and fetch us a look round. Wait, if there's a chance of a shot.
Ede's face grew grave as he thought of his little windows. 'Nothing, he said, 'can be done without plate-glass; five hundred pounds would buy out the fruit-seller, and throw the whole place into one'; and Kate, interested in all that was imaginative, would raise her eyes from the pages of her book and ask if there was no possibility of realizing this grand future.
She asked Montgomery to explain things to her, but he was more anxious to speak of his own music, and when the names of the ladies of the company were being run over in search of one who could take the part of a page, with a song and twenty lines of dialogue to speak, Dick said: 'Well, perhaps it isn't for me to say it, but I assure you that I don't know a nicer soprano voice than Mrs. Ede's.
But the temptation to complain was insidious. It was not every woman who would consent, as she did, to live under the same roof as her mother-in-law, and Hender, who hated Mrs. Ede, who spoke of her as the 'hag, never lost an opportunity of pointing out the fact that the house was Kate's house and not Mrs. Ede's.
A scuffle then seemed to be taking place; half a dozen voices spoke together, and in terror of her life Kate flew across the workroom to Mrs. Ede's bed. The door of the sitting-room was flung open and cajoling and protesting words echoed along the passage up and down the staircase.
'He sought Alice Barton's heart as eagerly as Kate Ede's; and my heart went out to the three policemen to whose assiduities I owed this pleasant evening, all alone with my cat and my immediate ancestor; and as I sat looking into the fire I fell to wondering how it was that the critics of the 'eighties could have been blind enough to dub him an imitator of Zola.
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