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It was useless to contend with him. Isabel and Moody gave him the promise that he required. He handed the sealed envelope to Isabel with a low bow. "When the week's out," he said, "you will own I'm a cleverer fellow than you think me now. Wish you good evening, Miss. Come along, Puggy! Farewell to the horrid clean country, and back again to the nice London stink!"
To the Chelsea street-boys he was known as 'Puggy Booth, and by his neighbours he was deemed to be an old admiral in reduced circumstances. His house in Queen Anne Street was closed, terribly out of repair black with dirt.
Here, Puggy! Puggy! hunt about, my man, and find some dog-grass. Does his inside good, you know, after a meat diet in London. Lord! how I feel my spirits rising in this fine air! Does my complexion look any brighter, miss? Will you run a race with me, Mr. Moody, or will you oblige me with a back at leap-frog? I'm not mad, my dear young lady; I'm only merry.
Neither, she reflected swiftly, was Scott Brenton quite the sort of man to offer it. Meanwhile, Kathryn, seated in a chair a good deal lower than the laws of perfect grace dictated, huddled her shabby dressing gown about her, ran a vaguely apologetic hand through her puggy pompadour, and went on with her domestic narration. "It's so queer what sets them off, Miss Keltridge.
Aversion rose in her, bitter and momentary. "Nesty tippling puggy!" she thought; and the next moment she had knocked guardedly at Archie's door and was bidden enter.
When Bobby scored, the tumult broke out like a crash of thunder; but it subsided again, echoless, to that intense silence so soon as the ball was "dead." Curiously, it was not Bobby who made the winning hit but Trigson. "One to tie, two to win," breathed Puggy as the field changed over, and it was Trigson who had to face the bowling. The suspense was torture.
"Troth," said I, "my affection for my king, God bless the puggy face of him! is under more control; and I thought I saw death so near to me this day already, that I am rather taken up with the notion of living." "Right," she said, "the right mind of a man! Only you must learn arms; I would not like to have a friend that cannot strike.
A beautiful late cut that eluded third man and hit the fence with a resounding bang, nearly drove Puggy wild with delight. "Only fifteen more," he shouted. "Oh! Played; pla-a-a-yed!" But as the score crept up, the tensity grew. As each ball was delivered, a chill, rigid silence held the onlookers in its grip.
The Ailesworth County Ground was not famous in those days; not then was accommodation needed for thirty thousand spectators, drawn from every county in England to witness the unparallelled. Ginger stopped. The interest of the spectacle pierced his absorption in the business he had in hand. Such a thing was almost unprecedented. "What's up?" he asked of Puggy Phillips.
"Seems to be meant for old Puggy" observed Sir Howard. "Hits him off very well." With that they all laughed, except Jenkins. When they had all done, he made a noise like the first effort of an animal to laugh, and Horne Fisher suddenly strode across to him and said: "Mr. Jenkins, I must speak to you at once in private."
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