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The Sharps did not employ a chauffeur, but their general man knew how to run the car, and he was now engaged in taking the cars to a spot well off the road. "I'll send one of the fellows to get him," Dick promised, as he led the numerous though welcome guests to camp. "Lucky I made a special big pudding," grinned Jim Hornby.
Hornby, ramming the tobacco into his pipe, went over to the corner by the stove, where Gertie was scalding out her large dishpan, and tried to interest her in the number of logs he had split since breakfast, without conspicuous success. Trotter stood looking out of the window, while Marsh stretched himself lazily in one of the rocking chairs with a sigh of content.
John complained of Hepsie's work only when with his wife alone, for Aunt Susan had been so constant in her praises that he would not start a discussion which he had found he brought out by such criticism. Susan Hornby looked on, and was as much puzzled as ever about the relations of the young couple.
It don't matter if I know Miss Hornby 'r not; but what a difference it'd make t' me if he only knowed I never put you up t' that partin' business! Please do it fur me, Lizzie." This was an unexpected turn. Elizabeth had hoped to avoid the recurrence of this issue.
As Anstey handed the rather questionable document up to the judge, I glanced at Walter Hornby and observed him to flush angrily, though he strove to appear calm and unconcerned, and the look that he directed at his aunt was very much the reverse of benevolent. "Is this the paper?" asked the judge, passing it down to the witness. "Yes, your worship," answered Mrs.
She disappeared from view for a moment, and then rose from the depths with a purple face and her bonnet flattened and cocked over one ear like an artillery-man's forage cap. Hornby, encumbered by her purse, her handkerchief and the Testament, struggled to unfasten her bonnet-strings.
Sue Hornby put 'er hand on my arm an' said, so kind like, 'Sadie, ain't you 'fraid t' talk that way an' you in that fix? An' I just cried an' cried, an' couldn't even tell 'er I'd tried t' do different." Luther Hansen had been trying to interrupt the flow of his wife's confession, and broke in at this point by saying: "Sadie's nervous an' upset over " "No, I ain't," Sadie replied hastily.
Thorndyke directed an inquiring glance at Reuben Hornby, remarking "You are not called upon to incriminate yourself in any way, Mr. Hornby, but I must know what position you intend to adopt." Here I again proposed to withdraw, but Reuben interrupted me. "There is no need for you to go away, Dr. Jervis," he said.
Hornby, and, on examining the print of Reuben Hornby's left thumb, I perceived on it a minute, S-shaped white space occupying a similar position to that in the red thumb-mark; and when I looked at it through a powerful lens, I could clearly see the little groove in the paper in which the fibre had lain and from which it had been lifted by the inked thumb.
"I think Hornby would make an admirable Father Neptune," said the Captain, considering him mischievously, "with a tow wig and beard " "And my green bath kimono," supplemented the A.P. "I bought it at Nagasaki, in the bazaar. It's got green dragons all over it " He met the First Lieutenant's eye and lapsed into silence again. "Yes! Yes!
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