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"A nice house that, I don't think!" was Tom Leslie's not very classical comment, as he took the double-barrelled telescope finally down from his eye, after a second inspection. "Oh, it may not be quite so bad as you think," said Harding, reading the whole of his friend's thought. "Who knows? that secesh flag may be a trophy won by one of our soldiers, and brought or sent home."
Molly was fast passing around a curve in the road and would then be out of sight, and Leslie's temper rose to its height. He forgot everything except his own awkward position and the fact that his lively young guest could have the laugh on him when that night's tale was told. "Oh! you hateful beast! You won't go, eh? Well, go you shall! Hear me? Take that and that and THAT!"
Granted that their marriage was a mistake, it had never had anything but harmony in it, companionship, mutual respect and understanding, and a happy intimacy as clean and natural as the meeting of flowers. She was standing, motionless and silent, when Leslie's voice came clearly to her ears.
The "line" remained busy for so long that the loungers in the hotel lobby grew amused at Leslie's impatience while the two girls became very anxious. "It was only an hour or so, Mr. Ford said, before Aunt Betty's train would leave and I shall be too late to see her to bid her good-by and it's for all summer a whole long summer!
Fortunately his uncle and elder brother were able and willing to help him on in his new career, and they provided him with the means of entering as pupil at the Royal Academy. We observe, from Leslie's Autobiography, that Etty was looked upon by his fellow students as a worthy but dull, plodding person, who would never distinguish himself.
Leslie, puzzled in turn. "The Zariba Dam." "That!" exclaimed Mr. Leslie, and his face cleared. "H'm, what about the dam?" "I had about thrown it up. I'm giving Tom a go at it." Mr. Leslie's eyebrows bristled in high curves. "What! wasting time with a man like that? If you've given it up, we'll try England or Europe." "No use. Plenty of good men over there. They can give us pointers on some things.
Leslie's nibble had been the first suggestion of possible luck. Just as she was cautiously beginning to reel in her line a pair of hands was clasped over her eyes, and a gay voice laughed "Guess who!" "Eileen!" cried Leslie, joyfully, forgetting all about her nibble. "Oh, but it's good to see you! We've missed you so since you left. Where did you come from?"
For the mention by Turnbull of the word "caves" careless and casual as he fondly believed it to be, but actually exceedingly clumsy had in an instant driven home to Leslie's mind the conviction that somehow or other this man had become possessed of information of the existence of the treasure on this island, and had come to take it away!
That evening Roderick was asked to the Grahams for dinner, as a further honour. He went with some trepidation, as it was his first venture into society. Mr. Graham was exceedingly genial, and Leslie was charming, but the lady of the house was rather distant. She could not help seeing Leslie's partiality towards Roderick and resented it.
Leslie's friends triumphed, though it does not appear how far Brown's arguments contributed to their success. The pamphlet was rewritten and enlarged, and a third edition of 1818 gives a full exposition of his theory. Brown had meanwhile become Stewart's leading disciple, and in 1810 was elected to be his colleague.
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