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In the Park he met Captain Heseltine, also mounted and looking very hot. The Captain mopped his face, and waved an accusing arm towards an inhospitable eucalyptus. "Call that a tree!" he said. "The beastly thing doesn't give a ha'porth of shade." "It's the best we've got," replied Kilshaw, in ironical apology for his country.
"I wouldn't be saying it so that any of the boys or girls should hear me, not for my throat's sake. I am the only one of 'em," he added, whispering still lower than before, "that's doing a ha'porth for the masther. There are the two young ladies a-working their very fingers off down to the knuckles. As for me, I've got it all on my shoulders."
But still we have food and blankets with us enough for them, and the camp in the plain below they can reach all right, if the worst comes to the worst; and for myself well that's my own affair, and no one will be a ha'porth the worse if I am dead in an hour.
Rouse the doctor." Answering in those terms, Crayford returned to the inner hut, followed by the sailor. John Want shook his head again, and smiled more drearily than ever. "Rouse the doctor?" he repeated. "Suppose the doctor should be frozen? He hadn't a ha'porth of warmth in him last night, and his voice sounded like a whisper in a speaking-trumpet. Will the bones do now?
'That's a long name to call it. 'Would the girl sail back alone with the crew? 'She's used to the sea and perhaps she isn't alone. There was that stepmother But it doesn't make a ha'porth of difference to our plans: we'll start on the ebb to-morrow morning. We were busier than usual that night, reckoning stores, tidying lockers, and securing movables.
"Well, he was telling me there was no parish in Holland where the devil hath such power as at Gouda; and among his instances, says he, 'We had a hermit, the holiest in Holland; but being Gouda, the devil came for him this week, and took him, bag and baggage; not a ha'porth of him left but a goodish piece of his skin, just for all the world like a hedgehog's, and a piece o' old iron furbished up."
If we use His gifts to minister to our own vanity or frivolity, or love of ease, or display; if an 'intolerable deal' of all we have is used for ourselves, and a poor ha'porth' for others; if our gifts are grudging; if we possess without sense of responsibility, and enjoy without thankfulness, and lose with murmuring; if our hearts are more set on material prosperity than on love and peace, knowledge and purity, noble lives and a Father God; if higher desires and hopes are dying out as we 'get on' in the world, and religious occupations which used to be pleasant are stale; then for all our outward Christianity the stern old woe applies, 'Your riches are corrupted, and the rust of them shall be a witness against you, and we need the shrill note of the trumpet of Jubilee to be blown in our ears, 'The land is Mine.
There came a moment when, dropping his quasi-official and high political tone, he said suddenly with another voice and emphasis: "Well now, my men, I'll be bound you're thinking, 'That's all pretty enough! we haven't got anything against it we dare say it's all right; but we don't care a brass ha'porth about any of it! If that's all you'd got to say to us, you might have let us bide at home.
There's your grandfather as is willing, and the-money as one may say counted out, and John Crumb is willing, with his house so ready that there isn't a ha'porth to do. All we want is for you to name the day. 'Say to-morrow, Ruby, and I'll not be agen it, said John Crumb, slapping his thigh. 'I won't say to-morrow, Mr Crumb, nor yet the day after to-morrow, nor yet no day at all.
I'm the only fellow who knows a ha'porth about it." "A ha'porth is an awful lot; besides, a chairman can't propose himself," said Cherry, revengefully. "I second the chairman's proposal," said Wilson, backing up his chum. "Carried, nem. con." "No, I'm hanged if it was!" said Cherry. "You're a fraud, Grimmy." "All right now, you chaps, the meeting is over.
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