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Burn came to meet with Pringle of Haining; but, alas! it is two nights since this poor young man, driving in from his own lake, where he had been fishing, an ill-broken horse ran away with him, and, at his own stable-door, overturned the vehicle and fractured poor Pringle's skull; he died yesterday morning.
Now, when I was living ashore with Paul Pringle's mother and people, there sprung up one night a gale of wind which blew down the church steeple, I don't know how many big tall trees, and sent a large part of the thatched roof off the cottage, besides scattering the tiles of the houses right and left, and toppling down numbers of chimney-pots.
Cotton of Tradd Street, he told me that the truth about young William Pringle's death was that he was black when he died, from cigarette smoking, black as a crow. Used to smoke before breakfast, used to smoke all day, used to smoke in his sleep, I b'lieve. Couldn't get rid of the pesky habit and died clinging to it, black as a crow. I can't abide the things.
Then he waved his hand down the pass, where certain of the departing posse, were bringing the saddle horses in obedience to the sheriff's instructions. "They'll carry a nice report of you," observed Breslin quietly. "What do you suppose that little girl will think?" A flicker of red came to Pringle's hard brown face.
Most school friendships are of that description. 'You were sending down some rather hot stuff, said Norris, as Gethryn sat down beside him, and began to inspect Pringle's performance with a critical eye. 'I did feel rather fit, said he. 'But I don't think half those that got you would have taken wickets in a match. You aren't in form yet.
I have been glad heretofore that they have hung around Pringle's, or Joe Henderson's, or the hotel, instead of up here. They've been up to all sorts of mischief." "If they don't behave reasonably they'll lose the reading-room. Of course that will be understood," said Janice. "You can't trust some of 'em," growled the druggist. "Never!"
If by some Arabian Night's trick she could suddenly transport herself and the sleeping Frank to Miss Pringle's side, she felt that that excellent lady's astonishment at seeing her descend from the Magic Carpet would be as nothing in comparison to her astonishment in being presented to Nora's husband.
Pringle looked at the crowd girls, grandmas, mothers with their families, many boys, and few men; Americans, Mexicans, well-dressed folk and roughly dressed, all together. Many were leaving; among them Pringle's fat and obliging neighbors rose with a pleasant: "Excuse me, please!" A stream of newcomers trickled in through the door. As Pringle sat down the lights were dimmed again.
There were only three of the eleven Houses whose occupants seriously expected to see the House cricket cup on the mantelpiece of their dining-room at the end of the season. These were the School House, Jephson's, and Leicester's. In view of Pringle's sensational feats throughout the term, the knowing ones thought that the cup would go to the School House, with Leicester's runners-up.
I'll warrant the old buffer is a true brick as ever was: there's no flinching about him." "I am satisfied," said Varney. "And I also," said Chillingworth; "but, understand, Sir Francis, any default for seconds makes the meeting a blank." "I will not doubt Mr. Pringle's honour so much as to believe it possible."
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