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Robert Kater stood by a much-littered table and looked down on a few papers and envelopes which some one had laid there during his absence. All day long he had been wandering about the streets of Paris, waiting passing the time as he could in his impatience hoping for the communication contained in one of these very envelopes.
It took its name from a farmer, whose name was Kater, and whose house was at the corner where the roads diverged. The main road itself was very rough and wild, and the cart path which led from the corner was almost impassable in summer, even for a wagon, though it was a very romantic and beautiful road for travelers on horseback or on foot.
Men are vera masterfu' bodies. I made it up to him though, for I bided a day or twa at the hotel, an' went to the room, the pentin' room whaur I found him there was whaur he stayed, for he was keepin' things as they were, he said, for the one who was to come into they things Robert Kater had left there ye'll find oot aboot them whan ye read the letter an' I made it as clean as ye'r han' before I left him.
You want too much of everything. And can't expect to escape a KATER." "Too much?" she echoed, quick to resent his words. "Does it seem so to you? Would days and days of happiness be too much after we have been separated for a week? after Wednesday night? after what you said to me yesterday?" "Yesterday I was in the devil of a temper. Why rake up old scores? Now go home.
I brought those Americans here while you were away and showed them. I told you they'd take something as soon as you were admitted. Here's the money." Robert Kater raised himself, looking in the eyes of his friend, and took the bank notes as if he were not aware what they really might be. "I say! You've enough to keep you for a year if you don't throw it away. Count it.
Towards the end of April he sent abruptly for Chris, told him that he had news from London that made his presence there necessary, and ordered him to be ready to ride with him in a week or two. It was in the evening of a warm May day that the Prior and Chris arrived at the hostelry in Southwark, which belonged to Lewes Priory. It was on the south side of Kater Lane, opposite St.
I said to him, calling Richard by the name he's been goin' by, I said, 'Whaur's Robert Kater? He jumped up an' began figitin' aboot the room, settin' me a chair an' the like, an' I asked again, 'Is this the pentin' room o' Robert Kater? an' he said, 'It was his room, yes. Then he asked me was I any kin to him, an' I told him, did he think I would come walkin' into his place the like o' that if I was no kin to him?
Embarking at midnight we pursued our voyage without interruption, passing between the Stockport and Marcet Islands and the main, until six A.M. on July 30th when, having rounded Point Kater, we entered Arctic Sound and were again involved in a stream of ice, but after considerable delay extricated ourselves and proceeded towards the bottom of the inlet in search of the mouth of a river which we supposed it to receive, from the change in the colour of the water.
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