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Mills, as the barmaid turned away. "I don't think I have that pleasure," said the girl, simpering. "Gran'pa's eldest boy," said Mr. Mills. "Oh!" said the girl. "Well, I hope he's a better man than his father, then?" "What do you mean by that?" demanded Mr. Simpson, painfully conscious of his friend's regards. "Nothing," said the girl, "nothing. Only we can all be better, can't we?
"Dat boy 's he gran'pa's gran'chile," he muttered, well pleased with his account. The crowd that assembled at the course that afternoon was enough to fill the hearts of the management with joy, if a management has hearts. When the first race was called, the stands and paddocks were already filled, and the road was crowded with vehicles as far as the eye could see.
It's my belief if you hadn't got de water dat day to throw in my face, I should never have come round again; and so, Clump, here, take dis coat, I'll gub tur you to r'member dis fite. And now dese gemmen laff at deir gran'pa's coat! but black Clump, ole nigger, lub it! Yaas, he'll lub it till he's 'posited in de bowels ob de arth."
"I've always longed to be more with Mamma Bee and to learn to know her better," she said to her friend; "for, though she was very loving and gentle to me while I was with her, she spent most of her life caring for Gran'pa Jim, and they were away from me so much that I really didn't get to know Mamma very well. I think she worried a good deal over Gran'pa's troubles.
"After Christmas, they went to another plantation. My gran'pa, he come and got them all to come. My gran'pa's name was Harvey Barnett. His old master's son had married and he had been staying with him. That made him be on another place. There was a good many of the children in my grandmother's family.
Mills, as the barmaid turned away. "I don't think I have that pleasure," said the girl, simpering. "Gran'pa's eldest boy," said Mr. Mills. "Oh!" said the girl. "Well, I hope he's a better man than his father, then?" "What do you mean by that?" demanded Mr. Simpson, painfully conscious of his friend's regards. "Nothing," said the girl, "nothing. Only we can all be better, can't we?
"Once I asked Peter about it and he scowled and said it might be just as well to allow Colonel Weatherby to mind his own business. The Colonel seems to have a good deal of money, and perhaps he fears that if he surrendered to the law it would be taken away from him, leaving you and your mother destitute." "We wouldn't mind that," said the girl, "if Gran'pa's name could be cleared."
And with an able vessel, you say? With that new one of your gran'pa's would you come clear with her?" "Oh, she'd come clear built to go fresh halibuting next winter, that one." "Yes and seining this spring. But suppose now you were haddocking trawling eight or ten dories, and you just arrived on the grounds, picked out a good spot, and there you are you're all baited up and ready?" "Winter time?"
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