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Banfield, with a curtsey, and gazed hard at his basket. "Nothing wrong up to the garrison, I hope?" "So far as I know, ma'am, nothing at all." "Seein' that great stack of luggage go up the hill," explained Mrs. Medlin, "why naturally it made a person anxious.
Now, you see, we are pretty well in the country. "Can you run?" "Yes, I can run pretty well, Mr. Medlin." "Very well, Bob. You see that tree growing out beyond that garden wall, about four hundred yards on. It is four hundred and twenty, for I have measured it. Now then, you walk on fifty yards, and then run for your life. See if I don't catch you, before you are there."
"I believe you suggested it yourself, Mr. Medlin," Bob said, indignantly. "Besides, it served them right, for coming in to complain that we had thrown stones and broken their window, when we had done nothing of the sort."
It is a pity my employer lives in that dull house, in that dull lane, all by himself," Mr. Medlin said, angrily. "But he has not got rid of himself, altogether. He is a good deal frozen up; but he thaws out, sometimes. What a man he would be, if he would but live out somewhere, and pick himself up regularly, as I do, every day! "This is my second mark, Bob, this tree growing out in the road.
Bale and Bob returned by the early coach to London, as the boxes and trunks and the portable furniture had to be sent off, early, on board. Mr. Medlin was less surprised, at hearing that Bob was going to leave, than the latter had expected. "You know, Bob, I was away one day last week.
Still, we shall all be sorry, Bob." Another fortnight, passed without Bob hearing more; except that he was taken by Mr. Medlin to various shops, and a large outfit was ordered. "You will bear in mind two things, Mr. Medlin," his employer had said. "In the first place, that my nephew will grow, in the next two years.
Medlin, I should have thought it would quite spoil the holiday. But I do not feel it so bad, now." "He will be all right, Bob. You have never seen him outside the city, yet. Still, I shouldn't be up to any tricks with him, you know, if I were you shouldn't put cobbler's wax on his pigtail, or anything of that sort." "As if I should think of such a thing, Mr. Medlin!" "Well, I don't know, Bob.
"Yes, sir. I told Mr. Medlin that I might not come back until the last stage." At parting, the admiral placed a case in Bob's hands. "There, my lad, are a brace of pistols. You won't have any use for them for some years to come, I hope; but if you stay out in Spain and Portugal, they may prove useful.
Medlin, who is staying with me here for a few days; and I am glad to say that his opinion coincides with that at which I had finally arrived namely, to allow him to remain with you. "His conduct when with me, and the perseverance with which as you report he is pursuing his studies, has shown me that he will not be found wanting in business qualities, when he enters the firm.
"He was obliged to talk so," Mr. Medlin said, laughing. "We were just machines at the time, both of us. But he talked in quite a different way when we were down fishing together, three weeks ago. He said then you were rather a pickle, and that he didn't think you would do yourself any good where you were, so that he was going to bring you up to business.
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