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Used to dance hornpipes in my young days, but gave up that sort of thing some time ago." "How unfortunate! Every one acts; it's all the fashion," began Miss Ellery, rolling up her blue eyes imploringly. "So I see; but I never cared much for theatricals, I like natural things better." "How unkind you are! I quite depended on you for that, since you wouldn't be a corsair."
Zosco," says I, "but Ellery has discovered a deep laid plot." "Eh?" says Zosco, gawpin'. "To do away with you and your wife," I goes on. "He says your brother Jake is in it, and Mrs. Jake, and the butler, and maybe a lot of others. Isn't that right, Ellery?" "Yep," says Ellery. "They're all crooks." "What confounded tommyrot!" says Zosco. "Why why, Jake wouldn't hurt a fly."
To himself he was saying, "What would Ellery do?" and on his answer to his own question he was readjusting his whole life. "We will not go out this evening, Lena," he said. "We've come to a crisis in our affairs more important than a club dinner." "What, have you been losing money?" cried Lena, startled and resentful. Dick looked at her with a very unpleasant smile. "No," he answered.
"Pink and white scenery with yellow curls," jeered Ellery. Dick made no reply and Ellery went on. "She has a young man already. You can't go and take her away from him. That wouldn't be playing fair." "The man with her is an oaf. He has a loose mouth that wabbles when he opens it to pick his teeth."
Why, if you flash a nickel-plated suspender buckle quick enough you can pass it for a badge even by daylight. "I didn't think you'd get my letter so soon," says Ellery. "I'm glad you came, though. See, I've got one of the gang already. He's the ringleader, too." "Fine work!" says I. "But what's the plot of the piece? You didn't make that so clear. Is it a case of " "Hist!" says Ellery.
By the everlastin'! if he ever comes within reach of my hands then there's times when good honest murder is justifiable and righteous, and it'll be done. It'll be done, you hear me!" He looked as if he meant it. Ellery asked another question. "Did you tell her Aunt Keziah when you met her at the Narrows?" he asked. "No. But I shall tell her when I see her again.
It is probable that John Ellery never fully realized the debt of gratitude he owed to the fog and the squall and to Captain Nat Hammond. Trumet, always hungry for a sensation, would have thoroughly enjoyed arguing and quarreling over the minister's visit to Come-Outer meeting, and, during the fracas, Keziah's parson might have been more or less battered.
To Dick's friends this long summer dawdled itself away much as the previous one had done. There were the same week-ends at the lake, with Dick more full of vivacity than ever, Ellery growing more certain of himself, Madeline rounding slowly out of girlhood into womanhood. Yet there was a difference. Half a dozen Sundays, when Percival was too busy, Ellery, half-irritated with his friend, half-exultant in his desertion, spent the quiet afternoons
With the exception of William Ellery Channing, he made no friends in Concord, though he speaks kindly of Thoreau, and compares Channing to him. It is to be suspected that this was largely on account of his political principles or the lack of them. He had held office under a democratic administration and felt that his interests were connected with that party.
"Oh, Torchy!" she squeals, "what do you think has happened?" "I know," says I. "Baby's cut a tooth." "No," says she. "It's it's about Marion." "Oh!" says I. "She ain't bumped somebody with the truck, has she?" "How absurd!" says Vee. "But, listen, Captain Ellery Prescott has come back." "What! The old favorite?" says I. "But I thought he was over with Pershing?" "Not yet," says Vee.
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