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The great lady bent down to him and kissed his forehead. "Good-bye, Freddy," she said. "You've helped me so much." Freddy drew in a long breath. "M-m," he sighed, "you know how I come to peek in your door like that?" "Because you heard me screaming 'damn'?" "No, before that. Comin' all the way down the hall I could smell it. Smelled so nice. Don't none of these ladies use perfume.
I didn't stop to analyze my feeling toward him, just then; but I had the impulse to keep what little I knew to myself, and I obeyed the promptings of the sixth sense. "He did," I answered. "But we can take a chance. Send men that know the country. Lyn Rowan's kinfolk are few and far between, now; that gold means a good deal to her, in her present circumstances." "H m-m." He mused a few seconds.
"She'd set the 'ouse afire in a minute, she's that forward with the matches. Ain't you, Maudie dear?" "Has Dr. Dallas seen her?" "Not yet, my lady." "He must. You can't get away, of course. M-m! My idiotic maid is coming in for her teeth to-morrow at twelve. She shall pick her up at Gale Anstey, isn't it? at eleven." "Yes. Thank you very much, my lady."
And that's where some would say you showed yourself a man, and some a fool, Johnnie-boy. Some would say, 'Use judgment think of the other eighteen or twenty men safe aboard the vessel. Would you use judgment, or what, Johnnie?" "M-m I don't know. What would you do, Captain Clancy?" "What d'y' think I'd do, Johnnie?" Clancy drew the boy up and tucked the little face to his own broad breast.
I tried, at least." "Is that the way you usually spend your Sundays?" "Well, I I like snooping about." "M-m," mused Clarence. Then, "How's business, Fanny?" "Business?" You could almost feel her mind jerk back. "Oh, let's not talk about business on Sunday." "I thought so," said Clarence, enigmatically. "Now listen to me, Fanny." "I'll listen," interrupted she, "if you'll talk about yourself.
Say, Bud, but d'y' b'lieve that some people, especially women, that they know without bein' told when people they think a lot of is in danger?" "I don't know. Do you?" "M-m sometimes I think there's something in it. Did you notice the look in her eyes to-night? But " the red lamp of the Port Light saloon loomed brightly ahead "it's a pretty cold night a toothful o' something, what d'y' say?"
"Um, um, um-m- m-m," sounds, which may stand for smothered kisses of rapture and thanksgiving that baby is not a lost child. "Has he been good, Lucy? Take him off and give him some cocoa, Mrs.
To feel all that and the rest of it to walk to the tops of your shoes in pine chips in the spar yards, to measure the lengths of booms and gaffs for yourself if you weren't sure who were going to spread the big mainsails, to go up in the sail-lofts and see the sailmakers, bench after bench of them, making their needles and the long waxed threads fly through the canvas that it seemed a pity wasn't to stay so white forever to see them spread the canvas out along the chalk lines on the varnished floor, fixing leach and luff ropes to them and putting the leather-bound cringles in, and putting them in too so they'd stay, for by and by men's lives would depend on the way they hung on all that, railways, sail-lofts, vessels, boats, docks alive with men jumping to their work skippers, crews, carpenters, riggers, lumpers, all thinking, talking, and, I suppose, dreaming of the season's work ahead m-m there was life for a man!
He riffled the close-set edges with a dexterous thumb, took another squint, pursed his lips, said softly "M-m yes, I'm in," dropped two white chips onto the little pile in the centre, then, looking up, laughed tolerantly at Harty. "Rum? Mine's rye, Bud, when there's any choice, but what's wrong with you to-night? Sit down.
But never mind that; suppose your anchor dragged or parted and into the shoal water you went in a gale, an easterly, say and the bank right under your lee wind sixty or seventy or eighty mile an hour what would you do?" "Anchor not hold? M-m Then I'd give her the second one." "And if that dragged, too or parted?" "Both of 'em?
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