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Sheepshanks might be seen trotting up and down on his stout old cob, speaking to attentive masons, plasterers, and glaziers about putting everything on the outside at least about the cottages belonging to 'my lord, in perfect repair.
Skihi, who, catching his friend by the tails of his dressing gown, had him right side up in a hurry, exclaiming, "Crucibles and gasbags! my good sir, have you gone crazy?" "No, indeed," returned Dr. Sheepshanks, with a gleeful laugh. "I have made a discovery, sir a great discovery.
After all, I never expected it. She sate down, as if she could get over her disappointment better in that position, and Molly stood like a guilty person before her. 'I am so sorry; I did all I could; we were interrupted at last Mr Sheepshanks rode up. 'Provoking old man! Do you think you should have persuaded him to give up the letters if you had had more time? 'I don't know. I wish Mr.
Mr Sheepshanks, though as unworldly a man as any in the county, considered himself unusually shrewd in business matters; and Aunt Charlotte, like many middle-aged ladies in her position, found it a great comfort to have a gentleman at her beck and call with whom she could talk confidentially about her investments, and who could be relied upon to give her much disinterested advice that he often acted on himself.
As he could not induce the other savants to prefer the luncheon of wild Indians to that of civilized Christians, Dr. Sheepshanks ate it all up himself, though, in fact, his rebellious palate steadily refused to relish the dainties prepared for it.
Little quarter-of-sheet notes, without any envelopes that invention was unknown in those days but sealed in the corners when folded up instead of gummed as they are fastened at present, occasionally passed between Mr. Sheepshanks and the Miss Brownings, Mrs. Goodenough or others.
Sheepshanks began, eager to seize the opening presented. "The fact is, I'm a married man." "Already at two points you have the advantage of us. Proceed, sir." "You were good enough, just now, to give me your name, Mr. "The Vicomte Anne de Kéroual de Saint-Yves." "It is a somewhat difficult name to remember."
"You'd have to teach them the Bible and the Catechism, of course," said Mr Sheepshanks, with an air of slight bewilderment. "H'm that seems to me rather a limited curriculum," replied Austin, dubiously. "I only remember one passage in the Catechism, beginning, 'My good child, know this. I forget what it was he had to know, but it was something very dull.
So one by one we were plucked uncommon specimens! from the deep; rescued from what Mr. Sheepshanks a minute later, as he sat on a thwart and wiped his spectacles, justly termed "a predicament, sir, as disconcerting as any my experience supplies." "But what be us to do with the balloon, sir?" the coxswain demanded.
And what a straightforward, out-spoken lassie it was then! I don't believe it; it's only one of old Sheepshanks' stories, half invention and half deafness. The next day Lady Harriet rode over to Hollingford, and for the settling of her curiosity she called on the Miss Brownings, and introduced the subject.
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