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Of all his friends La Farge alone owned a mind complex enough to contrast against the commonplaces of American uniformity, and in the process had vastly perplexed most Americans who came in contact with it.
The ship is on fire, Mrs Stannard." "Good God, sir!" "Listen!" said Lestrange. From a distance, thin, and dreary as the crying of sea-gulls on a desolate beach, came the clanking of the pumps. Before the woman had time to speak a thunderous step was heard on the companion stairs, and Le Farge broke into the saloon.
Farge cried, coming up to the surface again with a bounce, so to speak. Mrs. Porcher smiled, shook her head in graceful reproof, and turned once more to Dominic. "I think we should all like to know how you feel about it, Mr. Iglesias," she said. "Do you wish the poor old tree removed?" "On the contrary, I should greatly regret it's being cut down," he answered.
"My God!" cried Le Farge, as he sprang from the poop and rushed forward. Lestrange followed him slowly, stopping every moment to clutch the bulwark rail and pant for breath. He heard the shrill bird-like notes of the bosun's pipe. He saw the hands emerging from the forecastle, like bees out of a hive; he watched them surrounding the main-hatch. He watched the tarpaulin and locking-bars removed.
"Sh-h-h," warned Madame Leteur, looking about; "because America has joined us is no reason we should not be careful. See how our neighbor Le Farge fared for speaking in the village but yesterday. It is glorious news, but we must be careful." "What did neighbor Le Farge say, mamma?" "Sh-h-h. The news of it is not allowed.
LA FARGE, JOHN. Born at New York City, March 31, 1835; studied under Couture and Hunt; National Academician, 1869; president Society of American Artists and Society of Mural Painters. HUNT, WILLIAM MORRIS. Born at Brattleboro, Vermont, March 31, 1824; studied under Couture and Millet, 1846-55; opened Boston studio, 1856; died at Appledore, Isles of Shoals, New Hampshire, September 8, 1879.
She tells me she wants to hang on to it until she can get the money to have it enlarged into a big picture, and then she's going to keep it till the bambino that's Italian for baby, commissioner, you know till the baby grows up, so he can see what his dead father looked like." Now of a sudden La Farge knew or thought he knew why his interest had stirred in him a minute before.
By chance the worst lot of the Northumberland's crew were in the long-boat veritable "scowbankers" scum; and how scum clings to life you will never know, until you have been amongst it in an open boat at sea. Le Farge had no more command over this lot than you have who are reading this book. "Heave to!" came from the quarter-boat, as she laboured behind.
"He's the one that's makin' the charge." "What is the charge?" put in Rogers. "At this distance I couldn't make out Cap Meagher, he mumbles so," confessed the doorkeeper. "Somethin' about misuse of police property, I take it to be." "Aha!" gloated La Farge in his gratification. "Come on, Rogers I don't want to miss any of this."
I shall go mad. If you come a step nearer I'll make a scandal. I'll call for help. Ah! God in heaven, who's that?" Only the housemaid entering, salver in hand, and leaving the door wide open behind her. Upon the landing with out, Farge and Worthington, in comic attitudes, stood at attention. "A telegram for you, sir. Is the boy to wait?" she inquired, in a stifled voice.
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