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Gerent halted in his march when the flying men from the camp came in to him, telling him that we were in strong force on the hill, and so our men crossed the Parrett unhindered, and won to the long crest of the southward spurs of Quantocks, where the Welsh gathered against Kenwalch in the old days and stayed his farther conquest.
It would be hard to see him at all in the coming days, for not often was Gerent here. However, partings must needs be, and we made the least of it, and so at last we rode together to the old bridge that crosses the Parrett, and there bade our last farewells, and went our ways, not looking back.
Mr Parrett took no notice of these protestations, but said, quietly, "You'd better get home quickly and change your things." So saying he sculled off, with a face hardly less puzzled than the small scared faces which, after watching him go, turned dismally to their own unlucky Noah's Ark.
He's stopped their river-play, and they won't be able to show up at the regatta." "I'm jolly glad!" said Cusack; "chaps like them deserve to catch it, don't they, Pil?" "Rather!" replied Pilbury. A silence ensued, during which both heroes were doubtless meditating upon the unexampled iniquities of the Parrett juniors.
Of course, it was an experiment making Riddell captain, particularly as he is not generally popular." "His unpopularity arises from no cause in himself," said the doctor; "if it did I would not have put him in the post. But he will live it down in fact, he is doing so now, I fancy." "I think he is," said Mr Parrett. "The great difficulty is to get him to assert himself."
Ghosts are bang out of their line, and I never met even a common constable that believed in 'em, except Bob Parrett, and he had bats in the belfry, poor chap. No; they'll reckon it's somebody in the house, I expect, who wanted to kill t' others, but ain't got no quarrel with Mr. May. And you'd be wise to get back to bed, ma'am, and try to sleep, else you'll catch a cold.
The church, chiefly Perp., is not of much interest, though beneath the tower at the S.W. corner is a doorway of rough construction but peculiar character; near it is a stoup. In the churchyard is a cross and an old font. North Brewham is a small hamlet 1/2 m. away. Bridgwater, a seaport of more than 15,000 inhabitants, on the tidal part of the Parrett.
The Parrett juniors had never asked themselves the question before. "Now listen to me," said Mr Parrett. "I'm angry with you, and I'm going to punish you. I am not angry with you for capsizing me this afternoon. You did it by mistake, you say, and no harm was done. And I'm not going to punish you for being out late, for that the captain will do.
So that he was generally considered, and considered himself to be, quite as much of a Parrett as a "schoolhouser." "So you are not down looking at the little boys?" said Wibberly. "No," said Gilks. "Awful rot," said Wibberly, "making all that fuss about them!" "Pleases them and doesn't hurt us," replied Gilks. "In my opinion it's all a bit of vanity on the part of Riddell.
"Come in," said Mr Parrett, who was still in his flannels, and had not quite done tea. "Oh, you are the boys that I met on the river this afternoon. All except one belonging to my house, I see." "Yes, sir," exclaimed Telson, who was the distinguished exception, "they're all Parretts except me, and it was all my fault, sir, and I'm " "No," interrupted Parson, "it was all my fault; I was steering."
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