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And so I clung tightly and came down without much inconvenience, though indifferently glad to feel the ground again. Mr. Marmaduke, as I expected, was in a great temper, and swore he had not had such a fright for years. He looked for Mr. Carvel to cane me stoutly: But Ivie laughed heartily, and said: "I wad yell gang far for anither laddie wi' the spunk, Mr.
Marmaduke wondered if all the people would look up and see his little light. "Perhaps they can see just the light and not me," he said to himself, "and that would be just right." They rose up over the trees, then over the brook, and he saw himself shining in the brook. It looked as if his twin were lying there in the water, and he laughed out loud that is he thought he did.
Hearing a step behind him, Harry turned, and his eyes rested on the melancholy countenance of Marmaduke Timmins, the chronic invalid. "Good-morning, Mr. Timmins," said our hero. "I hope you stand the voyage well?" "I've had several new symptoms since I came on board," responded Mr. Timmins, gloomily, "and I've made a dreadful discovery." "What is it?" inquired Montgomery Clinton, in alarm.
"Take the Little Blue Lamp with you, then you'll seem like a star, too." Now long ago Marmaduke had made another trip to the skies, to see The Old Man in the Moon, but that journey was never like this. This was so much more beautiful. He didn't feel as if he were walking or riding, just rising in the air with one hand clasped in the fingers of the Star Lady, the other around the little lamp.
When Trooper and Marmaduke had visited the Piper they had made elaborate arrangements for his entry into Orchard Glen.
"It's a great mercy," said he, "that she has married the man she loves instead of well ... Marmaduke has turned out a capital fellow, and a credit to the family but I never was quite easy in my mind over the engagement.... And yet," he continued, after a turn or two about the room, "I'm rather conscience-stricken about Marmaduke, poor chap. He has taken it like a brick. Yes, my dear, like a brick.
It must begin with M. I do not like long names, and I have a fancy for one in particular I must beg that he be called Mark. I had a friend of that name, who died early. Do you object to it, Miss Ellen?" "I had not thought of it, certainly," said Ellen Barrow. "I was going to propose Marmaduke; but let me try how it sounds in combination with Seaworth Mark Seaworth Mark Seaworth.
After coffee had been taken, I mechanically rose with the rest, and went on deck. I had not been there long, before it occurred to me that I ought to have wished him goodbye, as a boat was alongside to carry some liberty-men on board the Doris. I desired the sentry to ask if I might see him, and was immediately admitted. "I am glad that you are come, Marmaduke," he observed.
On leaving the camp, Warwick rode in advance of his train, and his countenance was serious and full of thought. At length, as a turn in the road hid the little band from the view of the rebels, the earl motioned to Marmaduke to advance with his prisoner. The young Nevile then fell back, and Robin and Warwick rode breast to breast out of hearing of the rest.
"You know, Comyn," it was saying, "you know I should be at the Princess's were I not so completely worn out. I was up near all of last night with Rosette." Mr. Marmaduke, entering before us, cried: "The dear creature! I trust you have had medical attendance, Mr. Walpole." Pratt, where he was attending some mercer's wife.
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