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"Aye!" muttered Mr Enoch Peake. Edwin, with a great effort, rose and walked out. He would have liked to say good night to Big James; he did not deny that he ought to have done so; but he dared not complicate his exit. On the pavement outside, in the warm damp night, a few loitering listeners stood doggedly before an open window, hearkening, their hands deep in their pockets, motionless.
We left the Peake on the 4th of October, greatly refreshed by the rest and the kind treatment we had received from Mr. and Mrs. Blood, and Mr. Bagot, the owner of the cattle station. Before I record the details of our journey and the receptions given us at every place on the route, I will quote the concluding remarks of my journal relative to the expedition:
It's all right," said Edwin eagerly. "Mr Peake sent word he couldn't come, and he wanted you to go across to the Dragon this evening. So I went instead." It sounded dashingly capable. He finished the recital, and added that of course Big James had not been able to proceed with the job. "And where's the proof?" demanded Darius.
"You come along o' me to the Dragon to-night, young sir, at eight o'clock, or as soon after as makes no matter, and I'll see as you see Mr Enoch Peake. I shall be coming up Woodisun Bank at eight o'clock, or as soon after as makes no matter. You be waiting for me at the back gates there, and I'll see as you see Mr Enoch Peake." "Are you going to the Dragon?"
"Your name was mentioned at the trustees' meeting, wasn't it, Enoch?" "Yes," said Lovatt, "it was." "And dost mean to say as they thought as I 'ud give 'em a hundred pound towards th' new organ?" said Peake, dropping into dialect. "Why not?" returned Mrs Lovatt, her spirit roused. "I shall. Enoch will. Why not you?" "Oh, you're different. You're in it."
Vye moved, for Peake leading that wavering group, stumbled, would have fallen had not the younger man advanced from the shadows to steady him. "Vye!" Hume made his name a warning. He had only time to glance around. Wass, his broad face impassive except for the eyes those burning madman's eyes was aiming a ray tube. Broken free of his hold, Peake fell to the right, came up against Hume.
Have they told you about the new organ? We're quite full of it at our house." "No," said Peake, "they haven't." "What!" she cried reproachfully. "You haven't told him, Enoch nor you, Nan?" "Upon my word it never entered my head," said Mrs Peake. "Well, Uncle Peake," Mrs Lovatt began, "we're going to have a new organ for the Conference." "Not before it's wanted," said Peake.
S. L. Tilley, afterward Sir Leonard Tilley, the well-known Canadian Minister of Finance. Peake, notwithstanding his official title, would seem to have been more than an ordinary janitor, as he was the author of a Guide to the Smithsonian Institution. The term "Nautical Almanac" is an unfortunate misnomer for what is, properly speaking, the "Astronomical Ephemeris."
"Tha's what I told him, but Jimmie says he heard Tom Peake say so. Jimmie says this town will be full o' folks by night." Without waiting to hear any more of Jimmie's prophecies, Fraser followed the trail till it reached a waterfall Brandt bad mentioned, then struck sharply to the right. In a little bunch of scrub oaks he found a saddled horse tied to a sapling.
In 1830, at Covent Garden Theatre, Peake introduced into the Pantomime of "Harlequin Pat, and Harlequin Bat" a "speaking opening." Pantomime, however, pursued the even tenour of its way until the production at the Adelphi, about 1857, of a Pantomime, with a "burlesque opening," and "the thin end of the wedge" was provided, written by Mark Lemon. In the Harlequinade, Madame Celeste appeared as Harlequin
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