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Not to speak of a hundred and one other considerations, Lessingham on one side of the House, and her father on the other; and old Lindon girding at him anywhere and everywhere with his high-dried Tory notions of his family importance, to say nothing of his fortune. I don't know if I looked what I felt, if I did, I looked uncommonly blank.
Going to be a naturalist." "A what?" "Scientific gentleman." "But serve the King!" "What, and be sent down here hunting after the blackbirding blackguards?" "Pshaw! That's not really what we are here for; only if we see a suspicious-looking craft we board her." "Then what are you here for?" "King's business. Mum. Mustn't say." "Now, Mr Lindon! Good-evening, Captain Chubb; and good-evening, doctor.
That man will be before the magistrates to-day, and I passed my word to the constable that Lindon should be present to answer the charge made against him." "Yes, dear, and he has been thoughtless. But you will forgive him, and have him brought back." "Have him brought back!" cried Uncle Josiah fiercely. "What can I do? The law will have him brought back now." "What? Oh, brother, don't say that!"
'If you don't want to be self-branded as a contemptible idiot, Marjorie Lindon, you will call up your courage, and these foolish fears will fly. But it would not do. Instead of flying, they grew worse.
You did not notice anything, Lindon?" "No, uncle, and I hardly think he could have been left alone." "But the money is missing; some of it was dropped; this man is always penniless; he has not drawn his wages, and yet he is half tipsy and treating his companions. I hope I am not suspecting him wrongfully, but it looks bad, Lindon, it looks bad." The old merchant sat down and began to write.
"That is your weak womanly way of looking at it, my dear I may have been stern, but no more so than the matter warranted. No, my dear sister, can you not see that I mean all this as a lesson for Lindon? You know how discontented he has been with his lot, like many more boys at his time of life, when they do not judge very well as to whether they are well off." "Yes, he has been unsettled lately."
We'd got to Pannymah, when the skipper stood with his glass to his eye, looking at a strange kind o' hobjick ashore, and he says to me, `Mike, my lad " "You idle scoundrel! How many more times am I to tell you that I will not have my time wasted over those lying stories of yours? Lindon, am I ever to be able to trust you when business takes me away?"
I am going abroad, to visit Joe Lindon, the independent candidate for sheriff, and you can step into the back office and take a reef in it." He did not see the look of fire in her eyes as he went out, because he was not looking at her eye.
'Mr Lindon regains me as a son. He has given me his confidence; as I believe you are aware, Marjorie has given me hers; and now I want you to give me yours. 'What do you want to know? 'I wish to explain my position before I say what I have to say, because I want you to understand me clearly. I believe, honestly, that the thing I most desire in this world is to see Marjorie Lindon happy.
And I have always understood that men were so particular on points of honour. Old Lindon was still hardly fit to do much else than splutter, certainly not qualified to chop phrases with this sharp-tongued maiden. 'D-don't talk to me li-like that, girl! I I believe you're s- stark mad! He turned to me. 'W-what was that tomfoolery she was talking to you about? 'To what do you allude?
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