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With their arms linked together, three old men were approaching rather unsteadily. Merry instantly recognized Eli Given, Uncle Eb Small, and Deacon Hewett. As the trio turned in from the road their feet somehow became tangled, and all three went down sprawlingly. Uncle Eb sat up and made a whack at Eli with his crooked cane, crying shrilly: "That's the second time you've tripped me!"
At eight o'clock, accordingly, Snowdon went forth with his granddaughter, and, having discovered the street to which Sidney had directed him, he waited at a distance whilst Jane went to make her inquiries. In a few minutes the girl rejoined him. 'Miss Hewett has gone away, she reported. 'To spend the day, do you mean? was Snowdon's troubled question. 'No, she has left the house.
Above them glimmers the dawn of starlight. For perhaps the first time in his life Bob Hewett has drunk more than he can well carry. To Pennyloaf's remonstrances he answers more and more impatiently: 'Why does she talk like a bloomin' fool? one doesn't get married every day. He is on the look-out for Jack Bartley now; only let him meet Jack, and it shall be seen who is the better man.
They reached Jindy the same day, and rested at the house of a black woman, who had formerly been the mistress of Mr. Hewett, a white trader, and who, in consequence of that honour, was called Seniora. In the evening they walked out, to see an adjoining village, belonging to a slatee, named Jemaffoo Mamadoo, the richest of all the Gambia traders.
Except on Sunday evening this room was very little used, and there, on the occasion of which I speak, Clem was sitting with Bob Hewett. They had been having supper together French pastry and a cup of cocoa. She leaned forward on her elbows, and said imperatively, 'Tell Pennyloaf to make it up with her again. 'Why? 'Because I want to know what goes on in Hanover Street.
Baker's force was conveyed down the coast to Trinkatat; Admiral Hewett with some of the ships going down with him. The force was landed and marched towards Tokar; on the way it was attacked by the tribesmen who had embraced the cause of Osman Digma.
I believe Hewett met with some mishap in fact, they go the length of saying that he was eaten. So you see we've had our martyrs, my dear friend, and the least that we can do who stay at home at ease is to support a good cause to the best of our ability." "Whose names have you got?" asked the merchant. "Let's see," Jefferson Edwards said, unfolding his list.
Sidney waited till he met her look; she regarded him without self-consciousness, without any effort to conceal her agitated interest. 'You see young Hewett and his wife sometimes. Have you heard from either of them that Clara Hewett is living with her father again? 'Not from them. A person in their house spoke about it yesterday. It was the first I had heard. 'Spoke of Miss Hewett?
"It would not be amiss," said Hordle John, "if under his girdle he had tour farthings'-worth of wine." "Work first, wine afterwards, mon camarade. But it is time that we took our order, for methinks that between the Needle rocks and the Alum cliffs yonder I can catch a glimpse of the topmasts of the galleys. Hewett, Cook, Johnson, Cunningham, your men are of the poop-guard.
Consciously he set himself the task of becoming a practical man, of learning to make the best of life as he found it, of shunning as the fatal error that habit of mind which kept John Hewett on the rack. Who was he that he should look for pleasant things in his course through the world?
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