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Helen did not notice the change in him. She clasped her hands together and her voice trembled. "Oh, I was afraid I should be too late! When I came in from the field Aunt Hannah said you had not come back and I knew it was tide time and I felt somehow that it had caught you in the cave. I ran down over the marsh and took Joe Simmon's dory. If I had not got here in time " She broke off shiveringly.
Simmons fell back on the arm-rack deliberately, the men were at the far end of the room, and took out his rifle and packet of ammunition. "Don't go playing the goat, Sim!" said Losson. "Put it down," but there was a quaver in his voice. Another man stooped, slipped his boot and hurled it at Simmon's head. The prompt answer was a shot which, fired at random, found its billet in Losson's throat.
Still less can I foreshadow the fate of his eldest son, who has just been rusticated from Christ Church for riding one of Simmon's hacks through a china-shop window; especially as the youth is reported to be given to piquette and strong liquors, and, like many noblemen's eldest sons, is considered 'not to have the talent of his father. As for the old lord himself, I have no wish to change or develop him in any way except to cut slips off him, as you do off a willow, and plant two or three in every county in England.
The Misses Schank had, however, gone out to a tea party at Mr Simmon's the lawyer. "And my mother?" I asked, "is she there too?" "Oh! No, Lor' bless you, she never goes to such gay doings. She would be stopping to look after the old lady, who keeps up wonderfully. And I should not be surprised but what you find somebody else there.
I wills the fence to be built horse high, bull strong and pig tight, so as to keep out the Widow Simmon's old brindle cow; the said cow having pestered us nigh to death in life, I don't want her to worry us back to life after death. "'Third.
"If they would only let us into the yard and get under one of the workshop sheds, as they do at Simmon's," said another. "I have been here since half-past four, Mrs Grigsby, with this chilt at my breast all the time. It's three miles for me here, and the same back, and unless I get the first turn, how are my poor boys to find their dinner ready when they come out of the pit?"
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