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Those eyes were now fastened to the back of the nickum's close-cropped head, to his broad shoulders in a rough, gray sweater, noting a certain "bully" shrug of those shoulders at the surrounding landscape, as if, monarch of all he surveyed, he yet felt himself a usurper in his present seat. "Something rotten something rotten in the State of Denmark!" crowed Pemrose softly.
If old Round-top unhesitatingly played up, "came across" with an invitation an invitation to that alluring Get Together at the winter palace of the Snowbirds, then she would feel that a nickum's rudeness was atoned for and Jack at a Pinch might go his graceless road, never to prove a friend in need to her again not if she knew it! "Invite them to the picnic ... and don't forget the cocoa!"
With the more timid cry in her pulsing throat, and that little appalled stand, a star of mingled consternation and admiration beaming, bewitched, in one dark eye, Una turned from the spectacle turned, shuddering, from the hundred-and-odd feet of unbroken abyss extending from the nickum's knickerbockered legs, nonchalantly swinging, to an awed grove of young pine trees, rock-ribbed and bowlder-strewn, far below.
Suddenly one of them Stud it was leaned down and snatched the oars, lifted them high in the air, the nickum's evil genius having prompted him to lay them in the boat's side nearest the wharf; perhaps it was the demon which he had dared by sitting in the Devil's Chair.
"Have you never heard of Camp Fire, What a shame! What a shame! If you've never heard of Camp Fire, You're to blame! You're to blame! Then don't take a nap, For we're on the map, Ready to prove it with s-snap!" She hissed the last word at the nickum's back, as he halted at some distance with his companions. "Una! I'm going to do it," she panted.
But just at this unprecedented moment of excitement Andrew, the true-penny, had encountered another Scot, who emigrated before he did, and was breezily "clacking" with him at some distance from where two breathlessly expectant girls gazed down upon the black top of the nickum's head and at his wheeling shoulders in the great armchair.
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