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It was decided that Ned and Walter should take the early trick; Tad and Stacy Brown going out after midnight. The herders were already attending to their duties. And now Mr. Simms and the foreman having given their orders, the reserve force moved out one at a time until all had disappeared in the darkness. A signal had been agreed upon, so that they might recognize each other in the dark.
Had you been in the cloisters that night with the boys and you might have been and heard Master William Simms, who was the son of a wealthy farmer, tell the tale of a boy's being frightened to death, you would have known it to be a true one, if you possessed any knowledge of the annals of the neighbourhood.
The parlor door opened with violence; a thick-set man with a bald head and a red face, followed by a shrewish, thin woman with pinched lips, appeared on the threshold. "I s'pose," said the woman, with elaborate courtesy, "we kin come in our own parler, Miss Simms? Has you resigned your job that you gotta pick out the parler to set in whilst I'm doin' your work for you?"
NO SHORE leave was granted the crew of the Halfmoon while the vessel lay off Honolulu, and deep and ominous were the grumblings of the men. Only First Officer Ward and the second mate went ashore. Skipper Simms kept the men busy painting and holystoning as a vent for their pent emotions. Billy Byrne noticed that the passenger had abandoned his daylight strolls on deck.
Do you wish to compliment these other small fry? 'I want to ride, Mr. Falkirk, I believe I should go with Mr. Simms if he were the only chance; and that is saying a good deal. However, I can throw all the responsibility on you, sir; that is one comfort. 'It won't break me, said Mr. Falkirk; 'that is another. Why do they all come for you so, this hot weather!
Congressman Simms quickly presented Rhinds to the other two, one of whom was Rear Admiral Townsley, and the other Lieutenant Jasper, the Admiral's aide. "Now, Mr. Rhinds," pursued the Congressman, "the admiral has decided that the first thing to do is to go aboard the 'Thor, and see whether any hiding place exists in which you might have stored a fifth torpedo."
You didn't tell me." "Her name? Why, God bless my soul, I forgot, I forgot! Well! Her name's Anne Simms. Called Nancy. Soon be Nancy Champneys, thank Heaven!" And he repeated: "Nancy Champneys! Anne Champneys!" "Uncle," said Peter, deprecatingly, "you'll understand I'm a little interested excuse me for asking you but what does the young lady look like?" Mr.
He felt very much as Columbus did, gazing from his caravel on San Salvador; as Cortes, looking down, from the crest of Ahualco, on the Valley of Mexico; or Vasco Nunez, standing alone on the peak of Darien, and stretching his eyes over the hitherto undiscovered waters of the Pacific. -William Gilmore Simms: Views and Reviews.
"You wouldn't dare do that to a man, especially if he had a gun as you have. Why didn't you try it on Luke Lame when he was over here?" "Oh, go back to yer mammy," jeered one. "I want to know who threw that rope? If he isn't too big a coward, he'll tell me. I guess Mr. Simms will settle with him."
But Peggy Simms was between him and the door. "You shan't do it," she said, her eyes hard as flints, if Lund's were like steel. "You don't know what he was to me when when dad was buried. Call him in and let him talk for himself or or I'll tell the Japanese myself what we have come for!" Lund stood staring at her, his face hard, his beard thrust out like a bush with the jut of his jaw.
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