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"The old man's head is showing age, showing age! Getting thin up there, ain't it?" The old Colonel bent to his work with studied abstraction, and even when Amos said, judicially, after long scrutiny: "Yes, he'll soon be as bald as a plate," he only lifted one yellow, freckled, bony hand, and brushed his carroty growth of hair across the spot under discussion.
"Yes, but we'll kill him; only you show us where he is, so that we can catch him and tie him, and he'll never trouble Chub any more." "What! you'll tie Guy? How I'd like to see anybody tie Guy! You kain't tie Guy. He'd break through the ropes, he would, if he on'y stretched out his arms."
An officer started up from his seat, and collaring me said, "You're just the fellow we want. We're in luck to-night." In fact, I was in the hands of a press-gang, and I was pressed myself. "Yes, he'll do: he'll make a capital maintop-man," said a midshipman, getting up and surveying me.
"We're sure to reach him before then," said Dick joyously. "Colonel Hertford is a mighty good man, and if he says he's going to be at a certain place at a certain time I reckon he'll be there, Mr. Mason." "And then we'll bring him back and join General Grant. What do you think of our General, Sergeant?"
An' I know more besides me as are o' the same mind. 'Tryan has a good many friends in the town, though, and friends that are likely to stand by him too, said Mr. Pilgrim. 'I should say it would be as well to let him and his lectures alone. If he goes on preaching as he does, with such a constitution as his, he'll get a relaxed throat by-and-by, and you'll be rid of him without any trouble.
"Very good, my boy," said I. "That's practically what Sir Anthony told him." "Sir Anthony doesn't believe there's any truth in it?" "Sir Anthony," said I, boldly, "knows there's not a particle of truth in it. The man's malignancy has taken the form of a fixed idea. He's crack-brained. Between us we put the fear of God into him, and I don't think he'll give any more trouble."
'Is he ill? or the children? 'No, no! but he'll be off, he'll be off like poor Tom! exclaimed Charlotte, between her gasps; 'but I've locked it! and she waved a door-key, and seemed about to laugh hysterically. 'Sit down, Charlotte, said Louis, authoritatively, bringing a chair. 'If you do not explain yourself reasonably at once, I shall call Mrs. Bowles, and desire her to put you to bed.
He makes me that tired I sorter suggests maybe he'd better pray about it; and he says he's done that, too, but don't seem to git no straight answer. So I tells him if the Lord don't know I surely don't. And then he says he'll ask his wife. His wife! Whatever do you think of that? I quit him right there!"
Fosbroke came for his noontide visit just after this business of the letter, and found Ida and her stepmother both with the invalid. He was told what they had done. 'Do you think he'll come? Vernon asked, eagerly. 'I should think he would. Sir Vernon, answered the doctor; 'for I know he takes a keen interest in your recovery.
He'll pop presently, he's so pleased about something. There they're going to begin." She leaned back in her chair, and as Mr. Chinn rose in his seat and rapped on the table the crowd in the passage pressed closer to the door.
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