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He thought of Veronica running about the house and crying, "Where's Nicky? I want him." Monday was like Sunday, except that he walked up Karva Hill in the morning and up Greffington Edge in the afternoon, instead of Renton Moor. Whichever way he went his thoughts went the same way as yesterday. The images were, if anything, more crowded and more horrible; but they had lost their hold.
What Mr. Marshall is to the 3rd L.R.V., Mr. Berry to the Queen's Park, and Mr. Groves to the Celtic, Mr. Kelly was to his old club, the Renton viz., a grand man.
Renton never saw the rest of his companions again, for they were removed to the interior of the Island probably sold to some of the bush tribes, the "man-a-bush," as the coastal natives called them. Their fate is not difficult to guess, for the people of Malayta were then, as they are now, cannibals.
He did not want any tea, and if anybody called, he was not at home. With this charge, the man left the room, closing the door behind him. If he could but sleep a little! Rising from the sofa, he turned the lights of the chandelier low, and screened the fire. The room was still. The ghost stood, faintly radiant, in a remote corner. Dr. Renton lay down again, but not to repose.
Please not to blame him, for he, too, was one of the poor. "O Dr. Renton, excuse me, sir; I didn't mean doing any harm." "James, my daughter gave you an undirected letter this evening; you carried it to one of my houses in Hanover Street. Is that true?" "Ye-yes, sir. I couldn't help it. I only did what she told me, sir."
Then there was Sergeant Renton who, though badly frost-bitten, refused to leave the front line, and always showed his other foot to the Doctor. He could only hobble with the help of spades as crutches. Young Roger who "saw red" in the Dere and nearly bayonetted the Doctor.
At length the Phoebe went out of dock down to Gravesend. Some of her passengers had already come on board, the rest here joined us. We soon found when we got into blue water that Captain Slack was, as Dick feared, a very different sort of person from Captain Renton.
With her pale face grown suddenly paler, and her hand on her bosom, she could only exclaim, "Why, it's Dr. Renton!" and stand, still and dumb, gazing with a frightened look at his face, whiter than her own. Whereupon Mrs.
I hope you'll have as happy a Christmas as circumstances will allow, and I mean you shall." A flush of astonishment, of indefinable emotion, overspread her face. "Dr. Renton, stop, sir!" He was moving to the door. "Please, sir, do hear me! You are very good but I can't allow you to Dr. Renton, we are able to pay you the rent, and we will, and we must here now.
"No," said Miss Manners; "go on." "At length," he continued, "I began to feel that marriage would be an addition to my happiness; and, accordingly, I cast my eyes round among the fair maidens of the village. They fell upon the unfortunate Jessie Renton. She lived within a few doors of me, and I had often seen and admired her in my walks.
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