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Medlin, her neighbour across the road. The two women were staring up the hill, each from her doorway, but at the sound of the Commandant's footsteps they turned and stared at him instead: whereat he blushed and hung on his heel for a moment before charging through the cross-fire of gossip. "Good morning, ladies!" "Aw, good morning to you, sir," answered Mrs.
However, I trust that there will be no repetition of such follies; and that he will see the necessity of abandoning schoolboy pranks, and settling down to business." "Yes, sir," Mr. Medlin replied, seeing that his employer expected an answer.
Medlin, that it is by no means unusual for the civil inhabitants of a besieged town to be called upon, to aid in its defence I should recommend that you should place no obstacle in his way. As a lad of spirit, he would naturally be glad of any opportunity to distinguish himself.
"It is my opinion the firm would get on just as well, without me, or an indefinite time, uncle." "Not at all, Bob. Mr. Medlin was saying, only a few days ago, that you do quite your share of the work; and that he generally leaves it to you, now, to see country customers when I am out, and thinks the change has been an advantage to the business.
Medlin itself comprised two little stores built of rough planks and bearing no signs, a corn mill, and four dwellings. A mile and a half away was the log schoolhouse, which, once or twice a month, served also as church. Scattered about the settlement were seven tiny tub-mills for grinding corn, some of them mere open sheds with a capacity of about a bushel a day.
Just the same way as one wouldn't think it likely that you would smoke a cigar." "Well, no, Robert. You see, one must not always go by appearances." "No, sir; that is just what Mr. Medlin says," Bob replied, smiling. "Oh, he says that, does he? I suppose he has been telling you that we go out fishing together?" "He did mention that, sir." "You must not always believe what Medlin says, Robert."
We had a race, and he runs faster than Jack; fifty yards, in four hundred and twenty, is the utmost I can give him." "What nonsense you do talk, Will!" his wife said, laughing. "I am sure Master Repton must think you out of your mind." "It is a very jolly way of being out of his mind, Mrs. Medlin. You don't know how pleased I am." "He thought I was an ogre, my dear, and that you were an ogress.
A serious-minded man." Bob was looking up, and saw a little twinkle in Mr. Bale's eye. "You don't find it dull, I hope?" "Not at all dull, sir. Mr. Medlin and his family are very musical." "Musical, are they, Robert?" Mr. Bale said, in a tone of surprise. "As far as I have seen in the counting house, I should not have taken him to be musical." "No, I don't think you would, uncle.
You will sleep here tomorrow night, and we start the next morning." "Thank you very much, uncle," Bob said, in delight; and then, seeing that nothing further was expected of him, he ran off to join Mr. Medlin, who was waiting for him outside. "What do you think, Mr. Medlin? I am going down to spend Christmas at my sister's." "Ah!" the clerk said, in a dull unsympathetic voice.
Bale had relaxed his close attention to the business, since he had taken Mr. Medlin into the firm; but as that gentleman was perfectly capable of carrying it on, single handed, Bob's share of it was easy enough. It was not long before he complained to his uncle that he really did not find enough to do. "Well, Bob, you shall come down with me to a place I have bought, out by Chislehurst.
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