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"Well, Captain," the eager, nervous voice rang out again, "you've taken pity on us at last." "It's no good blaming me, Mr. Hammond," wheezed old Captain Johnson, staring at the liner. "You got Mrs. Hammond on board, ain't yer?" "Yes, yes!" said Hammond, and he kept by the harbour-master's side. "Mrs. Hammond's there. Hul-lo! We shan't be long now!"
In the pause which followed, footsteps were heard on the walk outside, and the girl sprang up with a beautiful blush. "My stars! I didn't think I forgot I must go." Hartley burst into the room shortly after she left it, in his usual breeze. "Hul-lo! Still at the Latin, hey?" "Yes," said Bert, with ease. "How goes it?" "Oh, I'm whooping 'er up! I'm getting started in great shape.
While these things were going on in the parlour, and while Mr. Huxter was watching Mr. Marvel smoking his pipe against the gate, not a dozen yards away were Mr. Hall and Teddy Henfrey discussing in a state of cloudy puzzlement the one Iping topic. Suddenly there came a violent thud against the door of the parlour, a sharp cry, and then silence. "Hul-lo!" said Teddy Henfrey.
In the pause which followed, footsteps were heard on the walk outside, and the girl sprang up with a beautiful blush. "My stars! I didn't think I forgot I must go." Hartley burst into the room shortly after she left it, in his usual breeze. "Hul-lo! Still at the Latin, hey?" "Yes," said Bert, with ease. "How goes it?" "Oh, I'm whooping 'er up! I'm getting started in great shape.
A rotten length of "string-piece" had been removed from one edge of the dock, and a new timber had not yet replaced it. As bad fortune would have it, Walky backed his wagon directly into this opening. "Hold on there! Where ye goin' to ye crazy ol' critter?" bawled the freight agent. "Hul-lo! Jefers-pelters!" gasped the suddenly awakened Walky, casting an affrighted glance over his shoulder.
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