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Truth to tell, he was no master of finesse, and had but recently been promoted from an East End district where prompt physical action was of more value than subtlety. As a result, then, he presently found himself in the presence of the immovable Hoskins; and having caused his name to be announced, he was requested to wait in the lobby for one minute.
Which Hoskins don't make his fences to conform to this yere rool none; leastwise they ain't hawg tight as is shown by one of Olson's hawgs. "The hawg comes pirootin' about Hoskins's fence, an' he goes through easy; an' the way that invadin' animal turns Bill's potatoes bottom up don't hinder him a bit. He shorely loots Bill's lot; that's whatever.
If the truth must be told, I was not sorry to let Hoskins have the start of me, and tell the chaps what had taken place, for we all have our little vanities, and I liked to be thought well of by my companions. When I came in, I saw my business had been done, by the way in which the chaps looked at me; especially Abednego, who offered me a pinch out of his gold snuff-box the very first thing.
Hoskins let this adverse decision sink into the breasts of his listeners before he added: "But he said that he was going with his wife, and that if we would come along she could matronize us both. I don't know how it would work," he concluded impartially. They all looked at Elmore, who stood holding the princess's missive in his hand, and darkly forecasting the chances of consent and denial.
"My claims," muttered Stephen; "those claims will be yours now, do you understand? I've arranged it all with that lawyer Hoskins, down town. They were to be hers if anything happened to me, but we shall both go to-night, and they will be yours. She said I had sunk my soul in them, Talbot; she was right.
"G'long!" said Liberty Jones, more than ever convinced of his badinage. "Fact," said Hoskins energetically. "Why, Doc would tell ye so, too. See ef he don't!" At this Liberty Jones felt her face grow hot. "You jess get!" she said, turning away in as much embarrassment as anger. Yet he hovered near her with awkward attentions that pleased while it still angered her.
One morning, as the couple paced the deck before breakfast, accompanied by Mr. Hoskins, an excited fellow traveller accosted the trio. "I say," he began, "have you heard? They have just signalled land ahead!" "Oh, where?" cried Sophy eagerly. "Do you see over the starboard bow, that faint dark streak upon the sky line?" She nodded. "Well then," he announced impressively, "that is Burma!"
"What was it?" Lieutenant Mackinson barely breathed, after several minutes of silence. Hoskins crawled nearer before he spoke. "How near are we, Lieutenant?" he asked: "I should say about a hundred yards." "Look straight ahead of us when the next rocket goes up," Hoskins suggested.
There was something touching in the naivete and kindness of the placid and simple gentleman. Great Hoskins, placed on high, amidst the tuneful choir, was pleased to signify his approbation, and gave his guest's health in his usual dignified manner. "I am much obliged to you, sir," says Mr.
They began again to creep forward, now flat upon their stomachs, and only raising themselves from the ground a little way, but at infrequent intervals, in order to make sure of their position and that they were not being watched. "Listen!" hissed Frank Hoskins, who was a little to the left of where the others were snaking their way along. They all stopped moving, almost stopped breathing.
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