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Geer's entrance, and he now expressed his regret for Ivy's illness, and hoped that she would soon be well, and able to resume her studies; and, with a few words of interest and inquiry to Mrs. Geer, took his leave. "I wonder if Mrs. Simm has been putting her foot in it!" thought he, as he stalked home rather more energetically than was his custom.
The lease was signed on October 12, 1619, and de Geer at once began operations on the largest scale.
What's the matter?" asked Mr. Geer, wildly. "Matter? Why, she'll be seventeen, come fall, and doesn't know a thing." "O Lud! that all? That a'n't nothin'." And Mr. Geer settled comfortably down into his arm-chair once more. He felt decidedly relieved.
The man who thus abuses power is none the less a traitor and a parricide. "Mr. Geer!" Mr. Geer was unquestionably asleep. This certainly did not indicate a sufficiently warm appreciation of Mrs. Geer's social charms; but the enormity of the offence will be greatly modified by a brief review of the attending circumstances.
Illingway," spoke Ned quietly, for he now recognized the missionary, though he wondered what she and her husband were doing so far from the Dark Continent. "Oh, I know you you're Ned Newton Tom's chum! Oh, I am so glad! Where is Tom?" "In the pilot house. He'll be here in a moment." Tom came in at that juncture, having set the automatic steering geer to take the ship on her homeward course.
Seems like they'd heard somethin' a spell back in one o' the county papers, an' we didn't know.... Anyhow, when I first got into town I met Judge Geer. He had me right into his office in Masonic Hall 'fore I could git my breath almost had me settin' in his private room, an' sent his stenugifer out fur a cup o' cawfee fur me.
'Twas not until we had safely run the gantlet of the vedette lines by a by-path known to the old hunter, and had shaken off the troopers that were following, that I found time to ask what had become of the men who had formed the ambush in the shrubbery. The old man gave me his dry chuckle of a laugh. "'Twas the same old roose de geer, as the down-country Frenchers 'u'd say.
Geer was not right. She had reckoned without her host. Her affairs were gliding down the very Appian Way of prosperity in a chariot-and-four, with footmen and outriders, when, presto! they turned a sharp and unexpected corner, and over went the whole establishment into a mirier mire than ever bespattered Dr. Slop. To speak without a parable.
Humanly speaking, nothing was more unlikely than that Mrs. Geer, a prudent, modest, and sensible woman, should give her consent to such an to use the mildest term unusual undertaking. Nor did she. The fact is, her consent was not asked. She knew nothing whatever of the plan. "Worse and worse! Did the wilful girl go off without leave? without even informing her parents?" I am sorry to say she did.
What could he do to prove to his daughter his real interest in her work? Presently he remembered Johnny Geer, the cripple boy whom he had liked, and at once he began to feel himself back again upon known ground. Instead of millions here was one, one plucky lad who needed help. All right, by George, he should have it!
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