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A few moments later the door communicating with the house was unceremoniously thrust open. The two men looked round. It was a youngish man dressed in the overalls of an engineer who hurried in. He was alert and full of business; a condition which he seemed to appreciate. "It's all right, boss," he cried cheerfully, addressing himself to Bat. "Guess the good Father'll get away with it.
"I have," said Gypsy; "I've broken the water-nymph!" "Is that all?" asked Mr. Simms, looking relieved; "why, how did it happen?" "I jumped on it." "Jumped on it!" "Yes; I'm sure I don't know what father'll say." "Well, I must say you are a wonderful young person," said Mr. Simms, proudly. "I'm sure I'm glad that's all. Don't you fret, my dear.
But get your tea, or you'll be late, and father'll be angry;" and Bessy took up her tub and departed. Poor Bill! Then it was too true. He began to pull up his trousers and look at his grazed legs; and the thoughts of his aching shins, Bully Tom's cruelty, the unavoidable night-school, and the possible ghost, were too much for him, and he burst into tears.
My unhappy sister, with a wild cry of distress, came back into the cottage, and threw herself sobbing into a chair. "`Oh, mother, mother! she cried, `they're off again they're gone to the public-house; father'll be the death of him, body and soul. "My mother made no answer. She could not speak. She had no comfort to offer. She knew that my wretched father was the tempter.
Fenwick, if you tells me to go to to to," he was going to mention some very bad place, but was restrained by the parson's presence, "if you tells me to go anywheres, I'll go." "That's right. Then I tell you to go to the mill." "I don't know as father'll let me in," said he, almost breaking into sobs as he spoke. "That he will, heartily.
Nancy was sitting up in the bed she had made for herself on the floor, coiling a rope of her black hair into a knot at her neck. The baby lay cooing and kicking in her lap. The morning air came in fresh and sweet at the open door. "Oh, Aunt Nancy, may I take her?" "Yes; I'll get the breakfast. Your father'll be hungry; he's been up a good while, I reckon."
Now we've only got to burn through the cotton," he said, lighting a piece of candle, "or else father'll never be able to get the tooth out. It loosens it tremendously!" He talked on about all kinds of things to divert her attention, like a conjuror, and then suddenly brought the candle close to her nose, so that she quickly drew back.
Hawkes, as he began to count the bank-notes. "And I want ye to get a passage on the first ship to America. This afternoon if there's one," cried Peg, earnestly. "Oh, come, come " remonstrated the lawyer. "The twenty pounds I want to buy something for me father just to remember England by. If ye think me uncle wouldn't like me to have it because I'm lavin', why then me father'll pay ye back.
"I reckon Satan could make it sound that way," Nancy said, but her niece seemed not to hear her. Nancy stood staring at her, with words bitter beyond saying in her heart; words that rose in her throat and choked her. When she spoke she only said, "Get up, Jane; your father'll be here in a minute." "I'm not going to eat anything. I'm going into the woods."
She turned it over, curiously, but it proved to be an advertisement of some sort of machinery and she threw it from her, impatiently. "Supper's ready, Sophy," cried a shrill voice. "Train's in and father'll be here in a minute. Get the table fixed." "I'm coming," she answered. For a minute she busied herself putting down plates and knives and forks. She heard her father coming in.
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