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Updated: June 4, 2025
Morgan had retired to a room set apart for smoking, on the second floor, and had found a grizzled gentleman lounging in solitary possession. "'Gene Morgan!" this person exclaimed, rising with great heartiness. "I'd heard you were in town I don't believe you know me!" "Yes, I do, Fred Kinney!" Mr. Morgan returned with equal friendliness.
Frank's debts were not in reality large; and when he named the half of them, looking down in shame, the squire, agreeably surprised, was about to express himself with a liberal heartiness that would have opened his son's excellent heart at once to him.
My father came in and with him a breath of wet, cool air, which I caught with delight. "Ha!" he cried, heartily, advancing upon the flabby little man, "we been waitin' a long time for you, doctor. Thank God, you've come, at last!" "Fifteen, two " said the doctor. My father started. "I'm wantin' you t' take a look at my poor wife," he went on, renewing his heartiness with an effort.
"I feel as pleased as if my grandmother had left me five thousand pounds!" "I wish she had," laughed the old chief. "I would ask to go shares!" "And so you should, my boy; so you should," repeated the skipper with much heartiness, and as if he really meant it. "How soon do you think we shall be able to start, eh?" "Very soon, I think, sir.
The nigger was pulling hard; several baskets of provisions for ships were stowed between the thwarts. The father of Alice was going his morning round. His countenance was tranquil and friendly. He raised his arm and shouted something with great heartiness.
These were interesting speculations, and, the chaise having ceased to sway, Laura grew meditative. In the evening Godmother had a visitor, and Laura sat in a low chair, listening to the ladies' talk. It was dull work: for, much as she liked to consider herself "almost grown up", she yet detested the conversation of "real grown-ups" with a child's heartiness.
The eminent professor had risen, displaying a face still red from his having slept with his head on his chest, but beaming with good-will. He grasped my hand with heartiness and vigor. "Here's rod and line for you, Monsieur Mouillard, all ready baited," broke in Jupille. "If you'll come with me I'll show you a good place."
Appleton, and Lench, and Coker want looking after badly, I know. So, you see, I've come back after all." He laughed with a little malevolent cackle as he spoke, and the three boys named laughed too, though with no great heartiness, and shifting the while uneasily on their seats. After this sally the conversation languished until Tom Grimstone's appearance.
It appeared that the chest did not contain something which he evidently held in great esteem, for in proportion as they approached the bottom of the box, his hurrahs diminished in heartiness, and, the inventory finished, he was heard to mutter these words: "That's all very fine, but you can see that there is nothing for me in that box!" This led Neb to say,
"Crooked folk will last a long while." said the maltster, grimly, and not in the best humour. "Shepherd would like to hear the pedigree of yer life, father wouldn't ye, shepherd? "Ay that I should." said Gabriel with the heartiness of a man who had longed to hear it for several months. "What may your age be, malter?"
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