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She obtained permission to take Mr. Morris to the Countess of Yarmouth's assembly, and played cards with him and so everybody was pleased. Thus the first eight-and-forty hours after Mr. Warrington's departure passed pretty cheerily at Tunbridge Wells, and Friday arrived, when the sermon was to be delivered which we have seen Mr. Sampson preparing.
The intention of Commodore Schley to return to Key West precipitated the movement of Admiral Sampson, with his two fastest ships, to Santiago; but the step would certainly have been taken as soon as the doubt whether all the Spanish division had entered was removed.
"Yes, sir; he talks at the rate of twenty knots an hour, and if his steamer can get ahead as well as his tongue, she is a fast one," replied Sampson, laughing. "Well, what does he say? I want to know how he stands affected by the present condition of affairs," continued the captain rather impatiently, for he was too busy to enjoy the humor of the engineer.
Sampson concluded this was his man, and said roughly: "Where did you drive young Hardie this morning?" He seemed rather taken aback by this abrupt question; but reflected and slapped his thigh: "Why, that is the party from Mill Street." "Yes." "Druv him to Silverton station, sir: and wasn't long about it, either gent was in a hurry." "What train did he go by?"
Alison is anxious enough to be cleared, you may be quite sure, but she can't see herself how it was possible that anyone else could have got to the till from the moment the five-pound note was put into it until she herself took change out and then locked it." "Yes, of course," said Sampson, "so she thinks. Now, one of three things is plain.
And the really terrible part of them is that, with you, they seem to be constitutional. No doctors can do anything when they're constitutional. There you are for the rest of your days!" Mrs. Sampson gave a little shiver. "I must say, Dr. Puddifoot seems to be very little use," she moaned. "Oh! Puddifoot!" Miss Stiles was contemptuous. "He's past his work. That's one comfort about this place.
'God bless him for it! said Bertram, shaking the Dominie's hand; he deserves the love with which I have always regarded even that dim and imperfect shadow of his memory which my childhood retained. 'And God bless you both, my dear children! said Sampson; 'if it had not been for your sake I would have been contented had Heaven's pleasure so been to lay my head upon the turf beside my patron.
"And of what use will that be?" demanded Mark Sampson. "The sun will melt away the ladder again." "We have many more hours of night here than we have of daylight you can all see that, eh?" said the professor. "The sun seemed to shine on us not more than six hours," admitted Jack. "Less than that, I believe. The rays were not hot more than four and a half hours.
He did not seem to have the gift of speech on those occasions. He did not seem to have the power of advising or warning, or even of comforting, his neighbours. His gift lay in helping them. "Inasmuch as ye have done it unto the least of these, My brethren, ye have done it unto Me," were words that Sampson seemed to believe.
A reward of 500l. had been offered, as he now collected, for the apprehension of Nicholas; and the dispute turned upon the due appropriation of this sum. "What the d -l, Sampson! rank or precedency has nothing to do in this case: that's settled, and we are all to share alike."
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