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On Friday morning Edwin started with a glad heart; for he thought, "If only I succeed today as well as I have been doing all week, by this evening I shall have the amount I subscribed." He expressed his gratitude in thanksgiving and praise to God. To his great disappointment, that day the extra amount of water was not sold, and on Saturday and Sunday he did not peddle.
Sandy pushed his way to the judge's side. He had never hated the sight of Ricks so much as at that moment. "It's Ricks Wilson," he whispered to the judge "the boy I used to peddle with. Don't be sending him to jail, sir. I'll I'll go his bail if you'll be letting him go." "Indeed you won't!" thundered the judge.
Washington nodded three or four times impatiently, and his glowing eyes said, "Yes, yes hurry I understand " "for I wouldn't have it get out for a fortune. Why my dear innocent boy, we would just sit down on the front door-steps and peddle banks like lucifer matches!" Washington finally got his breath and said: "Oh, it is perfectly wonderful!
"These too," said Doggie. "And where's my grey flannel shirt?" This time Peddle triumphed. "I've given that away, sir, to the gardener's boy." "Well, you can just go and buy me half a dozen more like it," said Doggie. He dismissed the old man, dressed and went downstairs. The Dean had breakfasted at seven. Peggy and Oliver were not yet down for the nine o'clock meal.
The famous Swiss band from the capital plays in the little plaza every evening, while the fourteen carriages and vehicles in the town circle in funereal but complacent procession. Indians from the interior mountains, looking like prehistoric stone idols, come down to peddle their handiwork in the streets. The people throng the narrow ways, a chattering, happy, careless stream of buoyant humanity.
Before we get to the Route Ronde here comes Desprez, the colourman from Fontainebleau, trudging across on his weekly peddle with a case of merchandise; and it is "Desprez, leave me some malachite green"; "Desprez, leave me so much canvas"; "Desprez, leave me this, or leave me that"; M. Desprez standing the while in the sunlight with grave face and many salutations.
His heart was right, and in her own heart she appreciated his intention as much as if the gift had gone with it. "No, Maria," he went on; "Nick and Joe won't have to peddle milk, and all the kids can go to school and wear shoes the whole year round. It will be a first-class milk ranch everything complete. There will be a house to live in and a stable for the horses, and cow-barns, of course.
"And I shouldn't wonder if she has. Since the war girls aren't on the look out for pretty monkeys." "If Miss Conover thinks she has got hold of a pretty monkey in that young man, she is very much mistaken," replied Mr. Spooner. Meanwhile Doggie summoned Peddle to the hall.
"What?" he demanded, a vague hint of anxiety in his tone. "He knows for he told me the exact condition of your finances." "Had I not better go?" suggested Conniston. "I do not want " "No. You are with us. If Hapgood knows, if he is going to peddle what he knows, you might as well know too! What did he say, Argyl?" "He said, father, that you had played to the end of your string.
Also tea, or beer, or whisky, or whatever they want. About what's going to happen to you and Mrs. Peddle, don't worry a bit. I'll look after that. You've been jolly good friends of mine all my life, and I'll see that everything's as right as rain." He turned, before the amazed old butler could reply, and marched away. Peddle gaped at his retreating figure. If those were the ways which Mr.
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