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Moorshed, not much carin' for further Navy after what Frankie said, certainly threw himself into the part with avidity." "What the dickens are we going to do?" "Speaking as a seaman gunner, I should say we'd wait till the sights came on, an' then fire.
On the walls which were painted a pale green were a number of coloured pictures: Moses striking the Rock, the Israelites dancing round the Golden Calf, and so on. As the reader is aware, Frankie had never been to a Sunday School of any kind before, and he stood for a moment looking in at the door and half afraid to enter.
'I know; I'll call him after a little girl that comes to our school; a fine name, Maud! That'll be a good one, won't it Dad? 'Yes, said Owen. 'I say, Dad, said Frankie, suddenly realizing the awful fact that he was being put to bed. 'You're forgetting all about my story, and you promised that you'd have a game of trains with me tonight.
Why even I know better than that, and I'm only six and a half years old. 'But then you're different, dearie, you've been taught to think about it, and Dad and I have explained it to you, often. 'Yes, I know, replied Frankie confidently. 'But even if you'd never taught me, I'm sure I should have tumbled to it all right by myself; I'm not such a juggins as you think I am.
Nora was the more willing to render her this service because Frankie used to be so highly delighted whenever it happened. He never tired of playing with the child, and for several days afterwards he used to worry his mother with entreaties to buy a baby of their own.
That evening, after Frankie was asleep, Owen and Nora went out to do their Christmas marketing. They had not much money to spend, for Owen had brought home only seventeen shillings.
He was not handsome in any way, but his smile drew the heart. "You didn't happen to hear what Frankie told me from the flagship, did you? His last instructions, and I've logged them here in shorthand, were" he opened a neat pocket-book "'Get out of this and conduct your own damned manoeuvres in your own damned tinker fashion! You're a disgrace to the Service, and your boat's offal." "Awful?"
But she had met Frank quite punctually, for, indeed, she had burned her boats now entirely and there was nothing else left for her to do. At the entrance to Chiswick High Street another brilliant thought struck her. She paused for Frank to come up. "Frankie," she said, "you won't say anything about the two-pound-ten, will you? I shouldn't like them to think "
Incredible as the story seemed, Barrington's manner was so earnest as to almost compel belief. 'Really and truly, or are you only having a game? said Frankie at length, speaking almost in a whisper. Elsie and Charley maintained an awestruck silence, while Freddie beat upon the glass with the palms of his hands.
So it will be no wonder if those children are not able to think for themselves when they're grown up, will it? 'Don't you think it will be any use, then, for me to tell them what to do to the Idlers? asked Frankie, dejectedly. 'Hark! said his mother, holding up her finger. 'Dad! cried Frankie, rushing to the door and flinging it open.
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