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He released her arm, and suddenly gripped the shoulder of a man passing. He was the town marshal. "Say, Dan, I reckon this is your busy night, but I wish you'd help me run this lady through as far as Timmons; this bunch of long-horns appear to be milling, and we're plum stalled." The man turned and stared at them.
The cheerful supper table, with the twins' bright faces, and Marilla's matchless plum puffs . . . of which Davy ate four . . . did "hearten her up" considerably after all. She had a good sleep that night and awakened in the morning to find herself and the world transformed.
Needless to say, the Japanese general gladly, yet without undue haste, acceded to Stoessel's proposal; and at noon of 2nd January 1905, Major-General Ijichi met Major-General Reiss at Plum Tree Cottage, a miserable little hovel situated in the village of Swishiying, and the negotiations were opened which resulted in Port Arthur passing into the possession of the Japanese on the evening of that day, although the Russian evacuation did not take place until the 5th of January.
Not one to be had! all catched up!" "I am glad to hear it, sir," said Cecilia, somewhat vexed by observing the white domino attentively listening; "and I hope, therefore, you will give yourself no farther trouble." "Pretty duck!" cried he, chucking her under the chin; "never mind, don't be cast down; get one at last. Leave it to me. Nothing under a plum; won't take up with less.
"I believe that's purzackly the very identical thing I did do. And bein' a careless old fool, I left it there instid of tearin' it up or burnin' it, and then I went on home and plum' furgot it wuz still there not that I now regret havin' done so, seein' whut to-night's outcome is."
Had she fallen like a ripe plum into his mouth, or shown herself ready so to fall, he would probably have closed his lips and backed out of the affair. But the difficulty no doubt added something to the desire. "I had hoped," he said, "that after knowing each other so long there might have been more than that." She was again driven to speak because he paused.
We see that volatile humor which is native in him flickering like burning brandy round the rich plum pudding of his theme. With all his playfulness, when he sets out to achieve a certain effect he builds cunningly, with sure and skillful art. Billy Henderson's wife is handsome; she is rich; she is an excellent cook; she loves Billy Henderson.
The goose is ready to go on the fire; the apple sauce is made; the bread and the pies are baked; and the plum pudding well, you saw the pudding yourself, so that I don't need to tell you about that. It's a beauty, if I do say so. At this moment the outside door opens, and the two children, Walter and Gertrude, run in. Their coats and mittens show that they have been playing in the snow.
There they lay in a kind of fairy ring, as if there had been a shower of mother-of-pearl in the April night; and no human creature would have dared set a vandal foot on that magic circle, and mar the perfection of its beauty. All the same the Plum Tree had lost its petals, and that was hard to bear at first.
It was nothing to do with him even if the Ritz was trying to make an overcharge for plum cake. "I just hinted that there must be men who but you understand?" Miss Van Tuyn smiled unembarrassed assent. "And then Miss Cronin" he lowered his voice "seemed thoroughly upset. I scarcely knew what she thought I meant, but whatever it was I had not meant it. That is certain.
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