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Updated: June 13, 2025
The ice is dangerous, and Miss Damer should on no account venture upon it." Perry Purtett was the bearer of this billet. He swaggered into Peter Skerrett's hall, and dreadfully alarmed the fresh-imported Englishman who answered the bell, by ordering him in a severe tone, "Hurry up now, White Cravat, with that answer! I'm wanted down to the Works.
He had watched Belle Purtett all the morning, and saw that she distinguished nobody with her smiles, not even that coq du village, Ringdove. He also observed that she was furtively watching him. By-and-by she sailed out of the crowd, and went off a little way to practise. "Now," said he to himself, "sail in, Bill Tarbox!" Belle heard the sharp strokes of a powerful skater coming after her.
"Come in," said Wade, and, enter young Perry Purtett. Perry was a boy of fifteen, with hair the color of fresh sawdust, white eyebrows, and an uncommonly wide-awake look. Ringdove, his father's successor, could never teach Perry the smirk, the grace, and the seductiveness of the counter, so the boy had found his place in the finishing-shop of the Foundry.
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