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Lord Nick lifted the little man in his arms as if he were a child and literally carried him in that fashion to the bunk. He put him down tenderly, still with one mighty arm around his back. "You are Garry? You!" "Garrison Donnegan Reardon. Aye, that's what I am. Henry, don't say that you don't know me!" "But your back I thought " "I know hopeless they said I was.
It was true Addington to refer to foreign tongues as jabber, and "that house", Jeffrey saw, was a stiff paraphrase for Esther's dwelling-place. He perceived here the same angry partisanship Reardon had betrayed. This was the jealous fire kindled invariably in men at Esther's name. "How do you know?" he asked. Alston hesitated.
"We do, Mr. Ricks. And last night your chief engineer, Mr. Terence Reardon, with the aid of the steward, one Riggins a British subject and unfortunately killed in the affray and Captain Murphy overpowered the German crew " "Oh, Mr. Ricks!" gasped Skinner. "Oh, Matt!" shrilled Cappy Ricks. "Oh, Cappy!" yelled Matt Peasley. "Oh, nonsense," laughed the British consul.
"Beg pardon, sir," said the man awkwardly; "I don't mean to say as you looked like a rat." "I hope not, my lad." "I meant him jumping like a cat." "Yes; and you saw him springing at me?" "Yes, sir." "Well, what then?" "Only bayonet practice, sir point from guard, and he came right on it." "Yes?" "Then I held him down, sir." I saw Mr Reardon shudder slightly.
Now, Matt, I've always done the hiring and firing for the Blue Star Navigation Company, and as a result I've had blamed little of it to do, considering the size of our fleet; consequently I'll just give these two Harps the Double-O. Have Murphy and Reardon at the office at nine o'clock to-morrow morning and I'll read them the riot act before turning them to."
The small hands stayed willingly in his. Reardon was a happy man, but at the same time he was curiously ashamed. He was a clean man who ate moderately and slept well and had the proper amount of exercise, and this excess of emotion jarred him in a way that irritated him. He did blame Jeff, who was at the bottom of this beautiful creature's misery.
And when he frowned his face grew marvelously dark, like some wrathful god, for there was a noble, a Grecian purity to the profile of Henry Nicholas Reardon, and when he frowned he seemed to be scorning, from a distance, ignoble, earthly things which troubled him. "I know it isn't exactly easy for you, Garry," he admitted. "You have your own pride; you have your own position here in The Corner.
Reardon and the children and his best job gone for ever tossed into the discard with his honor as a faithful servant. He sat down very suddenly on the hatch-coaming and covered his terrible face with his terrible hands. "Ah, Norah! Norah!" he cried and sobbed as if his heart must break. When Captain the Hon.
'My word! exclaimed Milvain, after a moment's meditation. 'It's well this didn't happen a year ago. The girls have no income; only a little cash to go on with. We shall have our work set. It's a precious lucky thing that I have just got a sort of footing. Reardon muttered an assent. 'And what are you doing now? Jasper inquired suddenly. 'Writing a one-volume story. 'I'm glad to hear that.
"Forgive me, Reardon, and listen to what I'm going to tell you." And then the tale was told. When it was done Terence Reardon grunted. "I knew it!" he said. "I knew it! I felt in me bones there was something wrong aboard this ship. An' so ye were not dhrunk an' disordherly at Pernambuco?" "The liars! Did they tell you that? Reardon, it's only the mercy of heaven they didn't murder me.
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