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Updated: June 26, 2025
And in the evening, when the children and Halliday were mending their shrimping nets, he said: "At the back of orthodox religion, so far as I can see, there's always the idea of reward what you can get for being good; a kind of begging for favours. I think it all starts in fear." She was sitting on the sofa making reefer knots with a bit of string.
How absurdly naive, how impossibly melodramatic, how maudlinly sentimental, how improbable in fact, how altogether womanly she must have grown. Womanly! That did it. I felt that she was womanly. And it came about that it was my Margaret of the Cobo shrimping journeys that I was prepared to welcome as I drove that morning to Waterloo Station.
"Jump up, boys; why it's ever so late, I believe," said Harry. "I'll go and see what time it is. Shrimping day!" Directly after Harry reappeared in Fred's room, and found Philip there. "I say, the clock's stopped in the night; it wants a quarter to four by that old stupid thing on the staircase.
Charley is very noisy, and so is Meg Druce, when not overpowered by shyness. She will not exchange a sentence with any of the elders, but in the general laugh she chuckles and shrieks like a young Cochin-Chinese chicken learning to crow; and I hear her squealing like a maniac while she is shrimping with the younger ones and Charley.
Most of the time I have been on a shrimping schooner on the Gulf. This morning the men aboard of her said that I was dangerous, so they were going to put me out of the way. They brought me here and tied me up. That's all." "Didn't you whistle 'Bob White, at us when we were coming into the harbor here?" inquired Harry breathlessly. "I know you did." "Maybe I did," admitted Charley.
"It it must be the sand has made it shine," the maiden stammered, with a fine bright blush; "it does the same to my shrimping net." "Ah, shrimping is a very fine pursuit! There is nothing I love better; what pools I could show you, if I only might; pools where you may fill a sack with large prawns in a single tide pools known to nobody but myself. When do you think of going shrimping next?"
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