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Holl was again called in, and was asked to sit down. "The question you wished to ask me," Captain Bayley said, "was, I suppose, whether I could give you any clue as to who was the woman you took in, and whose child you adopted? She was my daughter." "Lor', sir!" Mrs. Holl exclaimed, "who would have thought such a thing?" "Who, indeed," Captain Bayley repeated; "but so it was.
"Quite right, my boy, quite right," Captain Bayley said. "Then to-morrow, at eleven o'clock, I will come round in the carriage and fetch you. Mrs. Holl, remember that Harry Bayley owes you a deep debt of gratitude, which he will do his best some day to repay as far as it is in his power. Good-bye, Harry, for the present.
Before starting abroad, Captain Bayley carried out his plan for rewarding John and Sarah Holl for the kindness they had shown to Harry. After consultation with his grandson, he had concluded that the best plan of doing so would be to help them in their own mode of life. He accordingly called upon the dust-contractor for whom John Holl worked, a man who owned twenty carts.
While Sophia made ready for the journey, Dick and Lily Holl and Constance conversed in low, solemn tones. The pair were waiting to be enlightened as to the nature of the trouble; Constance, however, did not enlighten them. How could Constance say to them: "Sophia has a husband that she hasn't seen for thirty-six years, and he's dangerously ill, and they've telegraphed for her to go?"
The middle of the night that's just what makes it easy, young ladies; and instead o' watching and waiting, the 'holl of us 'ull get to bed." "That is all you're thinking of, Joseph." "Well, it's a deal, sir, after all that's been going on in this house," Joseph said, with an aggrieved air.
Holl," Frank said, rising, "I am very much obliged to you for your story; but I must be going now, or else I shall be late for school. Tell Harry I am sorry I missed him, and will look in again soon. Have you thought anything further of what I said about Evan?" "Yes, sir, and thank you most kindly; but father thinks he had better wait another year or so, till he gets a bit older and steadier.
When he was gone she said to herself: "Scarcely a fortnight and Sophia was here at this table!" She would remember every now and then, with a faint shock, that poor, proud, masterful Sophia was dead. When, on a June afternoon about twelve months later, Lily Holl walked into Mrs.
On the hills and in the creeks, I frequently observed conglomerate, with many pieces of quartz. Prodr. Nov. Holl. A high imposing range was visible to the northward. April 22. We travelled about nine miles west, making our latitude 19 degrees 12 minutes.
Harry had learned the notes from a secondhand book of instructions which John Holl had bought for him one Saturday night, when the weather had been particularly hot, and people in their desire to get their dust-bins emptied were more liberal than usual.
Holl answered, "is because they are brought up in nusseries, and they can't run about the house, or holloa or shout to each other in the streets. D' ye see they are taught to speak quiet, and they hear their fathers and mothers, and people round them, speaking quiet. You dun't know, Harry, how still it is in some of them big houses, you seem half afraid to speak above a whisper."
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