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He lay quite still on his back for a little while, thinking about it. "That seems to give one a shove, you know," he remarked presently. Then he fell to playing with her bracelets again. "After all, I've got a good many shoves to-day, mother. Dr. Knott's a regular champion shover.
I suppose I shall find you here when I've finished?" As he opened the door Dr. Knott's heavy person showed in all its ungainliness against the brightness of sunlight flooding Dickie's room. And to Katherine he seemed hideous just then inexorable in his great common sense, in the dead weight of his personality and of his will, as some power of nature.
Fogg borrowed a pump in at Knott's drug store and pumped me out twice in such a rude manner that I have felt hollow ever since." "I did it from kindness, Maria." "Don't talk of kindness to me, Wilberforce, after your conduct. And, colonel, one night last week, after I had retired, Mr.
He turned with rolling eyes and a pasty countenance to the two boys. "What you seen?" demanded Ikey, likewise disturbed by the petty officer's appearance. "No nothin'," murmured the frightened Seven Knott. "But but it's a ghost." "What's a ghost?" demanded the boys together, and although they did not believe in ghosts, they could not help being shaken a bit by Seven Knott's earnestness.
Meanwhile the sound of conversation rose continuous. Lady Calmady, calling to Julius, had moved away to the great writing-table in the farther window. Together they searched among a pile of papers for a letter of Dr. Knott's embodying his scheme of the new hospital at Westchurch. Mr. Cathcart stood by, expounding his views on the subject.
"You know some of the crew, before we left to carry poor Grant to the hospital, were bothering about a sound they had heard on the lower deck? Remember Seven Knott's ghost?" "Right!" declared the ensign. "I had forgotten it, Captain Trevor," he added. "Something about a clock ticking." "I have heard it myself," Whistler said eagerly.
The car started under Torry's careful guidance, and they quickly whisked around the corner into the main street of Seacove, the small port in which the chums had been born and had lived all their lives until they had enlisted as seamen apprentices in the Navy not many months before. They passed the little cottage in which Mrs. Hertig, Seven Knott's mother, lived.
The latter, a gentleman having a high sense of propriety, and a dignity of bearing that would have done no discredit to an assembly of divines, had been exceedingly annoyed by Knott's speech, which had in very truth kept the audience in an uproar during its entire delivery.
Still there are others, plenty of others, enough to satisfy even Knott's greed of riveting broken human crockery. Oh yes! I shall enjoy riding over, if you are still good to come. Four o'clock that'll suit you? I'll order the horses." And so, in due time, the two rode forth together into the brightness of the September afternoon.
We are usually very contented at least, I think so you, and dear Julius, and I, but perhaps we are getting into a bit of a rut. Helen's society might prove an even more efficacious method of driving out my blue-devils than Knott's lancet or a jolly good spanking." He laughed quietly, patting Katherine's hand, but looking away.
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