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As soon as he was washed and dressed, he sat down in a chair before the fire; but almost immediately there came a tap on his door, and the somewhat inflamed face of the Major looked in. "Frankie?" he whispered, and, reassured, came in and closed the door behind. "By gad, Frankie ... we're in clover," he whispered, still apparently under the impression that somehow he was in church.
As he watched the poor boy bending over his task, Owen thought of Frankie, and with a feeling akin to terror wondered whether he would ever be in a similar plight. When he saw Owen, the boy left off working and wished him good morning, remarking that it was very cold. 'Why don't you light a fire? There's lots of wood lying about the yard. 'No, said Bert shaking his head. 'That would never do!
Nora gave the boy some tea and bread and butter to eat whilst Owen was doing the coffin-plate, and presently Frankie who had been playing out in the street made his appearance. The two boys were already known to each other, for Bert had been there several times before on errands similar to the present one, or to take lessons on graining and letter-painting from Owen.
No planets left all the materials in them used up to build these bubbtowns. There'll be just big shining, magnificent rings made up of countless little floating stellene houses all around the sun. A zillion people, maybe more. Gardens, flowers, everything beautiful. Everybody free to move anywhere. Uh-uh I'm not making fun, Frankie. I'm joining in with all the relief and happiness of my heart.
'Why, Mum? he asked. 'For this reason, dearie. You know that all the beautiful things which the people who do nothing have are made by the people who work, don't you? 'Yes. 'And you know that those who work have to eat the very worst food, and wear the very worst clothes, and live in the very worst homes. 'Yes, said Frankie.
You're the best man in Arizona, sir," cried Webb extravagantly. He wheeled on his new-found daughter. "Don't you think so, Frankie?" Frances blushed, but answered bravely: "Yes, sir. He makes everything right when he takes hold of it." "Good. We're not going to let him get away from us after making us so happy, are we, mother? This young man is going to stay right here.
As he lay back in the chair, his face haggard and of a ghastly whiteness, and with the water dripping from his saturated clothing, Owen presented a terrible appearance. Frankie noticed with childish terror the extreme alarm with which his mother looked at his father. 'You're always doing it, he said with a whimper.
Such goings-on! And after all, Tishy's nothing so much out of the way, for all Frankie Mangan thinks the world should die down before her!" The two birds referred to were still fluttering round their captor, when a new element was added to the party in the large presence of "Frankie Mangan" himself.
"I don't mean Miss Pynsent," said Sydney, in some confusion of mind; "I mean " But Mrs. Murray had turned to somebody else, and scraps of conversation floated up to Sydney's ears, and gave him, as he thought, the information that he was seeking. "So devoted to Lady Pynsent's children! Now that little Frankie has a cold, they say she won't leave him night or day.
Frankie used to call for her as he came out of school and then they used to go home together, taking little Freddie Easton with them also, for his own mother was not able to look after him and Mary Linden had so much other work to do.
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