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If I can't give you fifty out of a hundred I'll renounce my private detectorial ambition for ever." "It isn't quite the same," objected Carlyle, but he rang the bell. "Come in and close the door, Parkinson," said Carrados when the man appeared. "Don't look at Mr. Carlyle again in fact, you had better stand with your back towards him, he won't mind.
Parkinson did not seem astonished at the miracle which had put Jethro in possession of this information, but heaved a long sigh of relief, as a man will when the worst has at length arrived. "I had to, Jethro couldn't help it. I tried to get Hallowell to wait till you come back and talk it over friendly, but he wouldn't listen; said the road was dangerous, and that he'd spoken about it too often.
"It isn't friendly of you, I must say, Miss Parkinson, to set there enjoying of it it's bad taste!" "Well, then, I'm very sorry, Mr. Tweddle; I won't laugh any more; but, for goodness' sake, take me back to the Hall now." "It's coming!" he said; "I'm working it over the joint now it's coming quite easily." "But I can't wait here while it comes," she said. "Do you want me to go back alone?
He was to return to Lichfield on the ensuing Wednesday, when his engagement to Patricia was to be announced "just as your honored grandfather did your Aunt Constantia's betrothal." Meanwhile Joe Parkinson, a young man much enamored, who fought the world by ordinary like Hal o' the Wynd, "for his own hand," was seeing Patricia every day.
My name is Percy Darrow." "I am Captain Parkinson of the United States cruiser Wolverine," said the commander. "This is Mr. Barnett, Mr. Darrow. Dr. Trendon, Mr. Darrow." They shook hands all around. "Like some damned silly afternoon tea," Trendon said later, in retailing it to the mess. A pause followed. "Won't you step in, gentlemen?" said Darrow, "May I offer you the makings of a cigarette?"
"Why devils?" asked Parkinson; "they may be only fairies making fun of you. They are sending you the 'Perfect Game, which is no game." I looked about me. The garden was full of a burning darkness, in which the faint glimmers had the look of fire. I stepped across the grass as if it burnt me, picked up the mallet, and hit the ball somewhere somewhere where another ball might be.
"I would have given my right hand to save him," cried Slade. "It was so sudden so damnable " "Better to have saved him than me," said Darrow. He spoke with the first touch of feeling that he exhibited. "I have to thank you for my life, Eagen I beg your pardon: Slade. It's hard to remember." Dr. Trendon arose, and Captain Parkinson with him. "Give you two hours, Mr. Darrow," said the surgeon.
He was suffering the annoyance of feeling distinctly unimpressive in his own department; but he was also curious. "The bell is just behind you, if you don't mind," said his host. "Parkinson will appear. You might take note of him while he is in." The man who had admitted Mr. Carlyle proved to be Parkinson. "This gentleman is Mr. Carlyle, Parkinson," explained Carrados the moment the man entered.
When he reached Harwich, instead of presenting himself promptly at the spinster's house, he went first to the office of Judge Parkinson, as became a prudent man of affairs. Perhaps there is no need to go into the details of Mr. Price's discomfiture on the occasion of this interview. The judge was by nature of a sour disposition, but he haw-hawed so loudly as he explained to Mr.
"Let's drink his health onst." They did so twice. Old man Greiffenhagen's was about two miles distant. With him lodged Miss Edna Parkinson and Miss Mary Willing. These young ladies were bosom friends, and members of the Women's Christian Temperance Union. We describe them adequately enough by adding that they were capable, pretty and good.
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