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But if Dicky likes to forgi'e him, well, we'll spare his life and redooce his punishment to two dozen at the gangway same as he got for Rudd and make him do Rudd's dooty 'til the poor chap's better; arter which the prisoner can be set to do all the dirty work o' the ship. How's that, shipmates?" "Ay, ay, Ben; that'll do, bo', that'll do fust-rate.
"I suppose so, or they wouldn't show them." "They are certainly amazing." They stood looking at them as one would at a heathen god. Then suddenly Gordon clutched Rudd's sleeve. "A notion! My word, a notion! Let's buy some pairs and wear them at platoon drill to-morrow." Gordon was about to burst in to the shop when Rudd detained him. "Steady, man, this is a great idea.
Walford, upon hearing these words, which seemed to him a reprieve from the very jaws of death, broke away from Talbot's grasp, and, rushing back to the side of the berth, seized Rudd's hand, kissed it wildly, and burst into an uncontrollable passion of tears, in the midst of which he was hustled unceremoniously out on deck.
"And let him have five dozen at the gangway before he's strung up, just by way of payin' off Dicky Rudd's debt with interest," added a voice. The suggestion was carried by acclamation; and the miserable man was informed that the sentence against him would be carried into effect at the conclusion of the trial of the fourth prisoner, Lieutenant Walford, who was now commanded to stand forward.
He showed himself in no hurry to respond to Rudd's indictment, and when he did it was not exclusively to Rudd that he spoke. "I am sorry," he coolly said, "that you consider yourselves aggrieved by my experiment. I do not myself see in what way I have injured you. However, perhaps you are the best judges of that. If you consider an apology due to you, I am quite ready to apologise."
From such a comparison it will be seen that in the progress from the rococo of Chippendale to the more severe lines of Sheraton, Hepplewhite forms a connecting link between the two. Urn Stand. The names given to some of these designs appear curious; for instance: "Rudd's table or reflecting dressing table," so called from the first one having been invented for a popular character of that time.
And from this sympathetic cousin John got advice as to what he should wear and how he should conduct himself at the party. It turned out that John did not go after all to Cynthia Rudd's party, having broken through the ice on the river when he was skating that day, and, as the boy who pulled him out said, "come within an inch of his life."
Now, do you know, I thought she had, but it must be 'Becca Rudd's well I'm thinking of." Bessy stepped outside for a moment, and came back with a basin of water in her hand. "What sort of water is this, Bessy river water?" said Rotha languidly, with eyes riveted on an oak chest that stood at one side of the kitchen.
And I'll have very, very thin bread and butter. I've just one cherished jar of the choicest Orange Pekoe, so the tea will be above reproach. And my one pride is my linen you know how much mother always kept not only her own but Grandmother Rudd's."
We'd have left the boat an' the things with him, an' we'd have walked the rest of the way, but the creek is so high now that we kin make at least twenty miles more an' tie up at Bill Rudd's place. Thar's no goin' further on the water, 'cause the creek takes a fall of fifteen feet thar, an' this boat is too heavy to be carried around it." They reached Rudd's place about dark.
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