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As the group passed up the street, Sydney in advance, with his rod and basket, on Mr Hope's horse, Mr Hope himself following with Hester, and the tall Mr Enderby, with Sophia and Margaret on either arm, all, like the little girls, laden with cowslips, the gossips of Deerbrook were satisfied that the stranger ladies must have enjoyed their walk in the meadows.
Oh, the gold! the precious, precious gold! the green miser'll hoard ye soon! Hish! hish! God goes 'mong the worlds blackberrying. Cook! ho, cook! and cook us! Jenny! hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, Jenny, Jenny! and get your hoe-cake done!" Leg and Arm The Pequod of Nantucket, Meets the Samuel Enderby, of London "Ship, ahoy! Hast seen the White Whale?"
"Gaines of The New Era, if he's here, and Betty Raleigh, and that new composer, and the Junior Masters." Edmonds nodded, and escorted her downstairs. Nicely judging the time when Banneker would have finished, he was back in quarter of an hour. The stenographer had just left. "What a superb woman, Ban!" he said. "It's small wonder that Enderby lost himself." Banneker nodded.
He made thee a knight?" she asked gaily. She slipped from his knee and courtesied before him, then seeing the heaviness of his look, she added: "Booh, Sir John Enderby, why dost thou look so grave? Is knighthood so big a burden thou dost groan under it?" "Come here, my lass," he said gently. "Thou art young, but day by day thy wisdom grows, and I can trust thee.
Langton, with an empty beef-tin in his hand, stumbled over his wife's figure, plunged the vessel into the water and drank again and again. "Curse you, you brute!" shouted Enderby through the wild noise of the hissing rain, "where is your wife? Are you going to let her lie there without a drink?" Langton answered not, but drank once more.
Presently he reached us and seated himself upon the wheel grating at my feet, gasping and panting for breath. "Well, Enderby," I shouted, "what's the news from the fore end of the ship? Did the sea that pooped us do any damage?" "Not so much as might ha' been expected," returned the boatswain.
With a smile and a steady voice she held out the book to Margaret, and said: "Here is something for you, Margaret, which looks a little like one of the hidden, and gentle, and mysterious tokens Mr Enderby has been talking about. Here it is, lying among your books; and I think it was not with them when you last left your seat."
On the following morning, immediately after breakfast, I had a long talk with Enderby, who came aft to lay before me the proposals of the men as to the terms upon which I was to be admitted to partnership in the adventure.
Anna carried the lamp, Henry carried the club. William carried the million dollars. The tamarack fire roared again upon the hearth. The buttermilk circulated from hand to hand. William and Henry told and retold the story of their adventures. The first streak of the Christmas morn fell through the door-pane. "Ah, my sons," said John Enderby, "henceforth let us stick to the narrow path.
She herself would send for Miss Ibbotson whenever it should be proper for Mrs Enderby to admit strangers. Margaret replied that she must see Phoebe that she should not retire till she had spoken to her, or till Mr Rowland's return.
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