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"Hollis has to go back in a day or two," Captain Rheid announced; "he spent part of his vacation in the country with Uncle Jack before he came home. Boys nowadays don't think of their fathers and mothers." Hollis wondered if he thought of his mother and father when he ran away from them those fourteen years: he wished that his father had never revealed that episode in his early life.
It needs Christian push. Perhaps it needs Hollis Rheid." "Marjorie, it will change all my life for me." "So it would if you should go West, as you spoke last night of doing. If you should study law, as you said you had thought of doing, that would change the course of your life. You can't do a new thing and keep to the old ways." "If I go I shall settle down for life."
How splendid," exclaimed Marjorie, "Won't it look grand in the Argus 'Bark LINNET, William Rheid, Master, ten days from Portland'?" "Ten days to where?" laughed Linnet. "Oh, to anywhere. Siberia or the West Indies. I wish he'd ask us to go aboard, Linnet. Don't you think he might?" "We might go and see her launched!
And I shouldn't wonder if we go to Europe on our wedding tour. That sounds grand, doesn't it? But it only means that Captain Will Rheid will take his wife with him if the owners' do not object too strongly, and if they do, the captain says he will let the Linnet find another master; but I don't believe he will, or that anybody will object.
After writing to her four years to give her the slip like this! And the girl takes on about it, I can see it by her looks, although she's too proud to say a word." "I'm sure I'm sorry," said Mrs. Rheid. "Hollis wouldn't do a mean thing." "I don't know what you call this, then," Marjorie's mother had replied spiritedly as she turned towards the house. Mrs.
"Like to come over to your grandfather's, eh?" remarked Captain Rheid, looking around at the broad-brimmed hat among the full bags. "Yes, sir," said Marjorie, denting one of the full bags with her forefinger and wondering what he would do to her if she should make a hole in the bag, and let the contents out. She rarely got beyond monosyllables with Hollis' father.
All day she lived on the hope that something might happen to bring him back at night; but before sundown Captain Rheid drove triumphantly into his own yard, shouting out to his wife in the kitchen doorway that the Linnet was well on her way. At dusk, Linnet's lonely time, Marjorie stepped softly through the entry and stood beside her. "O, Marjorie!
"Don't pretend that you don't want to hear that Nannie Rheid has put herself through," began Miss Prudence in a lively voice, "crammed to the last degree, and has been graduated a year in advance of time that she may be married this month. Her father was inexorable, she must be graduated first, and she has done it at seventeen, so he has had to redeem his promise and allow her to be married.
I got the Bible down last Sunday night and read a chapter in the New Testament. If you haven't got a Bible, I'll give you money to buy one." "Oh, I have one," said Hollis uneasily. "Git up, there!" shouted Captain Rheid to his horses, and spoke not another word all the way home.
Rheid said hang it over the window, that has been its place for generations. They lived here when they were first married, before they built their own house; the house doesn't look like it, does it? It is all made over new. I am glad he gave it to Will." "He can build a house for Hollis," said he, watching her as he spoke. "Let me see you put the key there," she returned, unconcernedly.
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