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A puff of wind, the last vital rally of the expiring breeze, carried the Spindrift forward till the punt at her moorings lay almost under her bow. "It is Callaghan," said Meldon, "and there's only one thing which can possibly bring him here at this hour. Something of real importance must have happened between Simpkins and Miss King. I wonder what it is."
Well, they commenced dancing and all "went merry as a marriage bell" for an hour, when Miss Tarleton was discovered crying, because "Master Simpkins had trod on her blue dress and torn off one of the flounces" and Miss Jane Judkins was very red in the face, because one of Mr.
When I tell him that the removal of Simpkins, and consequently his own future happiness and comfort, depend very largely on our being able to keep Sir Gilbert Hawkesby out of Ballymoy, he will believe me at once and act in a sensible way." "What do you mean to do to the judge when you catch him?" "I don't mean to do anything. I suppose you have some wild idea in your head "
"I don't think I do," responded Miss Fleet, quite without arrogance. "I I wish you'd tell me where you got that coat and skirt," said Charmian. "I will. I got it at Folkestone. I'll give you the address when we go on board again. My mother lives at Folkestone. She is a companion to a dear old Mrs. Simpkins, so I go down there whenever I have time." One's mother companion to a dear old Mrs.
"I got a letter from my niece Sophrony, out in Iowa, yesterday, and she sent me a cuttin' from an old paper. It's somethin' awful!" "Is it?" "Yes, and it's about Walter Sherwood!" continued Mrs. Simpkins, triumphantly. "He hasn't met with an accident, has he?" inquired Nancy, turning pale. "It's wuss than that!" answered the widow, nodding her head ominously. "Worse than an accident?"
And while the countryman and the boy gazed at him in speechless dismay, the policeman took the envelope from Bob's hand, opened it, and drew forth to their startled gaze a roll of tissue-paper. "I told you so," grunted the policeman, but further comment was interrupted by the actions of Simpkins.
Simpkins considers Timotheus a prodigy, and seems to feel contempt for his elder son, Joel, who as he expressed it, 'ain't intellectooal like Timotheus, and Joel usually retaliates by saying, 'It's lucky one son er the Simpkins family has got jest plain common sense.
Then they glanced at Simpkins with puzzled suspicion. Men, as every one is aware, even men with reputations for respectability, are sometimes arrested suddenly in the most unlikely places for crimes of which no one ever suspected them.
It was shortly after ten o'clock one morning when Ezra Simpkins, a reporter from the Boston Banner, entered the Oriental Building, that dingy pile of brick and brownstone which covers a block on Sixth Avenue, and began to hunt for the office of the Royal Society of Egyptian Exploration and Research. After wandering through a labyrinth of halls, he finally found it on the second floor.
He's such a horrid cad." "When they are married she'll have to, though I daresay it will hasten Simpkins' end if he does it too often always supposing that she agrees with you about him. I don't, as I've said several times. I think he's a decent enough sort of man, though he does show an extraordinary want of enterprise in this business."
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