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Crusoe put his snout against Marston's cheek, and, in the excess of his joy, the lad threw his arms round the dog's neck and hugged it vigorously, a piece of impulsive affection which that noble animal bore with characteristic meekness, and which Grumps regarded with idiotic satisfaction.
He sat quite silent for a time in Edward's armchair and they looked at one another in a haunted immobility. Reddin was sorry for his violence, but would not say so. Then they heard Mrs. Marston's slide, and she entered with a large decanter. 'This is some of the sparkling gooseberry, she said, 'by Susan Waine's recipe, poor thing! Own cousin to my husband she was, and a good kind body.
"I do assure you," replied Doctor Danvers, in a voice which seemed scarcely audible, after the stunning and passionate explosion of Marston's wrath, "I did not imagine that you could feel thus sorely upon the point; nay, I thought that you yourself were not without such painful doubts."
To shorten detail, it required two hours more to make another hundred feet; and then the Nautilus, after taking ten minutes to crawl an inch further, came to a perfect stand still. The pressure of the water had evidently now become too enormous to allow further descent. The Clubmen's distress was very great; Marston's, in particular, was indescribable.
It is, of course, needless to recapitulate the details of Marston's tormenting fancies, with which the reader has indeed been already sufficiently acquainted.
I looked up with a nod of greeting, while he sat and eyed me impatiently for some seconds. "Aren't you coming with me down to Southampton?" he asked finally. "What time do you leave?" I inquired, without looking up. "Eleven-thirty." "What's on?" "Freddie Marston's Crocodiles and the Blues. It's going to be some polo." I considered a moment. "Why, I guess I'll run down with you.
Every time some personal expenditure tempted him, he summed up the child's existence in four disgusted and angry words, "I can't afford it." But it was for Lily's sake, not Jacky's, that he economized! He was wretchedly aware that if it had not been for Jacky, Lily might still be a "saleslady" at Marston's, earning good wages.
The question may well suggest itself to my reader How could such a man be so unequally yoked with such another as Turnbull? To this I reply that Marston's greatness had yet a certain repressive power upon the man who despised him, so that he never uttered his worst thoughts or revealed his worst basenesses in his presence.
Arnold's course was decided on in an instant. He saw a chance of turning the tables on his Majesty in a fashion that he would find as unpleasant as it would be unexpected. He turned to his coxswain and said "How is the wind, Smith?" "Nor'-nor'-west, with perhaps half a point more north in it, sir. About a ten-knot breeze at least that's the drift that Mr. Marston's allowing for."
Bargle grew better; Mr Marston's wound healed; and these troubles were forgotten in the busy season which the fine weather brought. For the great drain progressed rapidly in the bright spring and early summer-time. There were stoppages when heavy rains fell; but on the whole nature seemed to be of opinion that the fen had lain uncultivated for long enough, and that it was time there was a change.
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