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The chill was over presently, but close upon its heels followed reaction, and Red Pepper's face flushed feverishly as he said, with a gallant attempt at a smile: "Sit down again a minute, dear, while I tell you what I'm up against. I wasn't sure, but this looks like it. You've got to know now, because I'm undoubtedly in for a bit of trouble and that means you, too."
But Joel broke away from him, and jumped to his feet. "And Mamsie lets Polly tell us stories," he blurted out fiercely. "Well, then, she's a very unwise woman," said Miss Jerusha, calmly seating herself in Mrs. Pepper's rocking chair. "She ain't!" screamed Joel, quite beside himself with rage. "Our mother's just right," said Ben, slowly getting to his feet.
When one man is wise and another foolish, the foolish man knows generally as well as does the wise man in what lies wisdom and in what folly. And the temptation often is very slight. Ralph Newton had hardly wished to buy Mr. Pepper's little horse. The balance of desire during the whole evening had lain altogether on the other side.
All he desires in a wife if he desires one is an inanimate and accommodating looking-glass, in whom he may see what he conceives to be his own image daily. James, you may take the mare home. I'm going to drive with Mr. Vane." She stroked Pepper's nose while Austen undid the hitch-rope from around his neck.
And even then Pepper's mistress did not associate the dog with him; she thought he had been destroyed long ago. 'But the next time the nurse went out with the baby she took a thick stick with her, in case the dog should come again. And no sooner had she lifted the perambulator over the step, than the dog did come again, exactly as if he had been lying in wait for them ever since outside the gate.
He had been informed that Colonel Pepper's failing always took this form of remorse, and certainly he would have tried it upon his latest victim had not Lane interfered. "Colonel, you're hopeless," said Lane, as they walked out. "I hope somebody will always be around to protect you. I'd carry a body guard.... Say, have you seen Blair Maynard or Holt Dalrymple to-night?"
He drove away towards Ripton with many things to think about, with a last picture of her in his mind as she paused for an instant in the flickering shadows, stroking Pepper's forehead. It is difficult to overestimate the importance of Mr. Humphrey Crewe, of his value to the town of Leith, and to the State at large, and in these pages only a poor attempt at an appreciation of him may be expected.
Spat! came one through the open window. Then the skin of a banana followed, landing in Jack's lap. "Stop that, Bock!" "Don't throw things in here, Sedley!" "Something to remember us by!" shouted Roy Bock, the bully of Pornell Academy, and he threw another soft apple into the carryall. It landed on Pepper's arm, leaving quite a mess there.
'Never again! she said softly; 'that was the very last they ever saw or heard of him. And and I've always loved every dog since for Pepper's sake! 'I'm almost glad he did decline to come back, I declared; 'it served his mistress right she didn't deserve anything else! 'Ah, I didn't want you to say that! she protested; 'she never meant to be so unkind it was all for the baby's sake!
So Joel took a flying leap, keeping his black eyes fixed on the red border, and came through the ring so splendidly that everybody hopped up to their feet, and shouted and clapped their hands, Grandma exclaiming, "La for the land's sake!" while Phronsie slid out of Mrs. Pepper's lap and gave a squeal of delight.
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