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The next moment, in the thick of the Mane, the boat leaped up a crest and into view. To Kit's amazement he saw the whole long bottom clearly outlined. The boat, for the fraction of an instant, was in the air, the men sitting idly in their places, all save one in the stern, who stood at the steering-sweep. Then came the downward plunge into the trough and a second disappearance.
The remainder of that day and the whole of the next were a busy time for the Nubbles family, to whom everything connected with Kit's outfit and departure was matter of as great moment as if he had been about to penetrate into the interior of Africa, or to take a cruise round the world.
Kit's embarrassment indicated that he was trying to save her feelings, but he must know, as she knew, that a landlord was rightly judged by his agent's deeds. Although she rather liked Kit Askew, he had humiliated her. "Well," she said resolutely, "something must be done. If the strayed sheep could be found, it would help." "Yes," said Kit.
He wasn't that sort. He knew he had to have it. 'It was tit for tat: your blood-mare my old Robin. 'Tain't Christian, but 'tis sweet. Then as he saw it coming in a kind of scream 'Through the heart if you're a gentleman, sir.... So much I permitted him. You see he was brave." Kit's brow was dank. The man's calm terrified him. "The others gave little trouble.
Jean will be going back to Boston in October to her art class, and Helen is only fourteen. I don't think it would matter, if you only visited them for a couple of months, but supposing Uncle Cassius took a fancy to you." Mr. Robbins' eyes twinkled as he watched Kit's grave face.
"This is what comes of being a good fellow," Kit grumbled one day. "Thank God for good fellows then," O'Hara cried, with tears in his eyes as he gripped Kit's hand. "You're all that's saved me, Kit. But for you I'd have gone bust. Just a little longer, old man, and things will be easier." "Never," was Kit's plaint. "I see my fate clearly. I shall be here always."
Kit looked at the brightly-painted little canoe many times before the lunch was finished and Bet declared herself ready to go. The egg sandwiches and stuffed olives were eaten without much thought by Kit. Apple turnovers and fudge slipped down as if she were in a dream, for Kit's mind was racing ahead to the thrill of getting out on the Hudson in a boat.
Its verses rang in Kit's head all the way home, and when she learned that Miss Daphne, too, had been one of the old Professor's scholars, she wrote them down and sent them west to her. "I've wandered to the village, Tom, I've sat beneath the tree, Upon that schoolhouse playground, That sheltered you and me.
Just at the close of the test when Miss Owens was picking up the test papers, she passed Kit's seat and saw a book protruding from her desk. The order had been that all books were to be turned in and anyone found possessing a book would be given zero in the test. Miss Owens stopped short. "Why Kit Patten!" she exclaimed in amazement. "Give me the book that you have in your desk!"
'You see, my good woman, said Mrs Garland to Kit's mother, 'that it's necessary to be very careful and particular in such a matter as this, for we're only three in family, and are very quiet regular folks, and it would be a sad thing if we made any kind of mistake, and found things different from what we hoped and expected.
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