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He was a little startled at seeing Joey dressed as a clergyman, and looking so like what he had looked himself a few years earlier, for there was a good deal of family likeness between the pair; but Joey's face was cold and was illumined with no spark of Bohemianism; he was a clergyman and was going to do as other clergymen did, neither better nor worse.
'No, I reply, 'I can hear nothing about them'; whereupon the publisher falls to bellowing like Joey's bull. By dint of incredible diligence, I at length discover the dingy volume containing the lives and trials of the celebrated two who had brooded treason dangerous to the state of Denmark.
Rushbrook then proceeded to business, for he well knew that the gun would be set where the pheasants were most accustomed to roost; he put a small charge of powder in his fowling-piece, that, being so near, he might not shatter the birds, and because the noise of the report would be much less; walking under an oak-tree he soon discovered the round black masses which the bodies of the roosting pheasants presented between him and the sky, and raising his piece, he fired; a heavy bound on the earth near his feet followed the discharge; Joey then slipped forward and put the pheasant into his bag; another and another shot, and every shot brought an increase to Joey's load.
"Oh, I ain't hungry. We stopped at Joey's downtown and had a cup of coffee and a ham on rye. Did you remember to put out the milk bottle?" For two weeks there had been none of that. Gussie had learned to creep silently into bed, and her mother, being a mother, feigned sleep. To-night at her desk Miss Gussie Fink seemed a shade cooler, more self-contained, and daisylike than ever.
A short time after this Picotee was in the company of Ethelberta, and she took occasion to mention Joey's attachment. Ethelberta grew exceedingly angry directly she heard of it. 'What a fearful nuisance that boy is becoming, she said. 'Does father know anything of this? 'I think not, said Picotee. 'O no, he cannot; he would not allow any such thing to go on; she is so much older than Joey.
Jane dreaded the present and the future whichever way she turned her eyes the gibbet was before her the clanking of chains in her ears; in her vision of the future, scorn, misery, and remorse she felt only for her husband. Joey, poor boy, he felt for both. Even the dog showed, as he looked up into Joey's face, that he was aware that a foul deed had been done.
This character, given so gratuitously by his new acquaintance, made Joey stare, and the woman looked hard into Joey's face. "Well, now," said she, "where have I seen you before? Dear me! and he is like poor Peter, as you said, Jim; I vow he is." "I saw you before to-day," replied Joey, "for I carried a bundle up for you." "And so you did, and would have no money for your trouble.
It was observed on the following Wednesday that Joey's action as a Pecking Machine was impaired at dinner, and it was rumoured about the table that this was explainable by his high-strung expectations of Miss Obenreizer's singing, and his fears of not getting a place where he could hear every note and syllable.
She then learned what had occurred at the inquest Joey's escape his being again discovered by Furness and his second escape from the school, to which he had been put by the McShanes. "And his father and mother, where are they? When I think of them I must say that I do not much like to assist in taking up the boy. Poor people, how they will suffer when they hear of it?
"I'd want to get out with him and raise a little dignified hell once in a while, just to be a human being and keep him from being a mollycoddle. Ahem! Harumph. So he flagged this damsel in the leg show, eh?" Joe Gurney nodded miserably. "Have you given her the once over?" Cappy demanded. "Yes, I went up there one night. I was afraid somebody would see me, so I took along Joey's aunt, Matilda.
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