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To be sure, there 's Silas; he's a regular boarder; but I don't count him." Mr. Sewell then explained how the tavern had lost its custom when the old stage line was broken up by the railroad. The introduction of steam was, in Mr. Sewell's estimation, a fatal error. "Jest killed local business. Carried it off, I 'm darned if I know where.
"Go on, Edward," said Judith. "What happened at dawn?" "We got the turtle in order, and those ancient mariners, our engines, began to work, wheezing and slow. We ran up a new flagstaff, and every man stood to the guns, and the Merrimac moved from Sewell's Point, her head turned to the Minnesota, away across, grounded on a sand bank in the North Channel.
Either of these alone was enough to seal the feud, but there was more. Carse was sworn to release from their bondage of life-in-death Ku Sui's most prized possession, his storehouse of wisdom the brains of five great Earth scientists, kept alive though their bodies were dead. These, then, were the forces glossed over so lightly by John Sewell's words.
He made no further audible remark, but mumbled between his thin lips something which an imaginative person might have construed into "If you 're at civil engineer, I 'll be blessed if I would n't like to see an uncivil one!" Mr. Sewell's growl, however, was worse than his bite owing to his lack of teeth probably for he very good-naturedly set himself to work preparing supper for me.
"You needn't be afraid," said Sophia, laughing. "It's Miss Sewell's Experience of Life." "A novel, I see," observed Mrs. Baines, dropping the book. Gold and jewels would probably not tempt a Sophia of these days to read Experience of Life; but to Sophia Baines the bland story had the piquancy of the disapproved. The next day Mrs. Baines summoned Sophia into her bedroom.
Lemuel's mother gave her hand from under the fringe of her shawl, standing bolt upright at arm's-length off, and Sewell said it felt like a collection of corn- cobs. "Well?" said Sewell's wife, when they were gone. "Well," he responded; and after a moment he said, "There's this comfort about it which we don't always have in such cases: there doesn't seem to be anybody else.
At last he asked, lifting his eyes anxiously to Sewell's, "Do you think I did wrong to say the thief was a friend of mine, and get him off that way?" "That's a very difficult question," sighed Sewell. "You had a duty to society." "Yes, I've thought of that since!"
Loveless swore by a particular piece of rope, and Mac which is short for Mohammed discovered propitious omens on every conceivable occasion. It was on the first day's march into the Kedong Valley that we had roped the wart-hog. On the journey from Sewell's Farm to Rugged Rocks we had rounded up and photographed the eland.
She was a lady of wide reading and, even according to the modern rather arbitrary restrictions of the term, something of an historical scholar; she had humour, of which there was scarcely a particle in Miss Sewell's composition; she had a very considerable understanding, and consequently some toleration of the infinite varieties, and at least the more venial foibles, of human temperament.
As we passed, the Minnesota blazed with all her guns; we answered her, and answered, too, the Saint Lawrence. The evening star was shining when we anchored off Sewell's Point. The wounded were taken ashore, for we had no place for wounded men under the turtle's shell. Commodore Buchanan leaving us, Lieutenant Catesby Ap Rice Jones took command. "I do not remember what we had for supper.
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