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"That guy's a tight one," said Billy, jerking his hand in the direction of the guardian of the free lunch. "I scoops up about a good, square meal for a canary bird, an' he makes me cough up half of it. Wants to know if I t'ink I can go into the restaurant business on a fi'-cent schooner of suds." Bridge laughed. "Well, you didn't do so badly at that," he said.
"Holy Saint Dunstan! there's but one man who can beat me in that sort that I know of," muttered Nicholas, "and I little expected to see him take a bite out of his own hip." With that he approached his successful rival. "Well, Master Marmaduke," said he, "it is many a year since you showed me that trick at your father, Sir Guy's God rest him!
"It must be another yacht." "Aren't you a white cruiser with awning mid and aft, and pilot house on bridge deck?" asked "VAX". "Yes," answered Hal. "There's somebody calling us," remarked Bud at this point. "Yes, I get 'im," returned Hal. "Why, it's the mysterious guy who tried to head us off night before last and yesterday." Both boys read the "mysterious guy's" first send with eager impatience.
In the midst of all these troubles he went down to dinner. "Lady Mabel," said the Duke, "tells me that you two have been to see Sir Guy's look-out." She was standing close to the Duke and whispered a word into his ear. "You said you would call me Mabel." "Yes, sir," said Silverbridge, "and I have made up my mind that Sir Guy never stayed there very long in winter. It was awfully cold."
Edmonstone have seen her face, she would have wept and wondered more, as Amy fondled and hushed her babe, whispering to it fond words which she could never have uttered in the presence of any one who could understand them, and which had much of her extreme youthfulness in them. Not one was so often repeated or so endearing as 'Guy's baby!
One or two couples out of the crowd who had been in the first grade of love-sickness when he last saw them, now seemed to belong more emphatically to one-another than before, and the sadder but wiser looking fellows who followed some of these developed ladies about gallantly, were loaded with satchels and shawls and other feminine tackle which strangely became them in Guy's eyes; they danced less, flirted less than they used in Guy's days, but then matrimony has its martyrs and its sacrifices, like every other institution, and the thorns and roses grow on the one branch.
Watching, waiting, hoping, saying to herself in the morning, "It will come before night," and saying to herself at night, "It will be here to-morrow morning." Such was Daisy's life, even before she had a right to expect an answer to her letter. Of the nature of Guy's reply she had no doubt. He had loved her once, he loved her still, and he would take her back of course.
In youth, too, with all the passions vehement, the self-knowledge and self-control small? No; Nature herself, in that universal desire to escape, which comes with such a trial, hints at the unnaturalness of the ordeal; in which, soon or late, the weak become paralysed or callous; the strong God help them! are apt to turn wicked. Guy's instinct of flight was, his mother felt, wisest, safest, best.
Again Murphy pressed the button without response. "Murder, all right, I guess," muttered Murphy, "and the guy's probably slipped down the back stairs. Who lives here, anyway?" he inquired, turning to Marsh. "That's the peculiar part about it," was the reply. "The people who rent this apartment went to Europe this summer, and as I understand it, they won't be back for another month.
Suddenly a long tongue of flame issued from the smoking cavern, and lapped round the mast and rigging with greedy eagerness. "There's no hope," said Captain Ellice in a low voice, laying his hand gently on Captain Guy's shoulder. The captain did not reply, but gazed with an expression of the deepest regret, for one moment, at the work of destruction.
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