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Skinner's absence from the office of the Ricks mills, cleverly managed to inculcate in Cappy Ricks the idea that it would be a splendid and profitable venture if he, the said Cappy, should wade into the grape stake market and corner it.
"I think I heard something of that kind at Skinner's, but it may have been only a warning to me, traveling alone." "Thet's so," said Collinson, with a tender solicitude, "but none o' these yer road-agents would have teched a woman. And this yer Chivers ain't the man to insult one, either." "No," she said, with a return of her hysteric laugh.
"I will never forgive you the distress you have caused to Sylvia," he said. But Garratt Skinner's eyes were upon Sylvia, and in his face, too, there was a humorous look of pride. She had courage. He remembered how she had confronted him when Walter Hine lay sick.
Tess saw the struggle going on in his mind; she bent toward him, reasoning: "I needed the Bible, didn't I? Didn't ye say that to save Daddy Skinner's life I had to have it? Ye needed that red rag what ye got round yer head. There air only one way in this world " She was moving toward him inch by inch, the soles of the fisherman's boots dragging the bread crumbs and fish bones beneath them.
He paused, and his glance met Skinner's wonderingly as a bright idea leaped into his cunning brain and crystallized into definite purpose. He sprang up, waved his skinny old arms, and kicked the waste-basket into a corner of the room. "I have it, Skinner! I've solved the problem. Go back and 'tend to your lumber business and leave the man Peasley to me.
I think Comrade Peck has some of the earmarks of a good manager for our Shanghai office, but I'll have to test him a little further." He looked up humorously at Mr. Skinner. "Skinner, my dear boy," he continued, "I'm going to have him deliver a blue vase." Mr. Skinner's cold features actually glowed.
"Being sent with a merchant of Turney, called Berlo, to the mart of Antwerp, the said Berlo set me," says Perkin, "to borde in a skinner's house, that dwelled beside the house of the English nation. And after this the said Berlo set me with a merchant of Middleborough to service for to learne the language, with whom I dwelled from Christmas to Easter, and then, I went into Portugale."
Seeing that not one of the respectable "Ameners" was going to help him, the Dominie sputtered out his wrath in another direction. "If Young had kept his hands off that Skinner business, there wouldn't have been the slightest chance of the fisherman winning out." "Ah! here's where the shoe pinches," thought Hopkins; "the parson needs help to wrest Skinner's squatter rights from him."
There were certain definite reasons of which he was aware, to account for Garratt Skinner's reluctance to appear in a general company. He turned back from the window and returned to his table. He had taken his part. There was no longer either unsteadiness or anger in his voice. "I quite understand your reluctance to leave your new friends," he said, with the utmost friendliness.
"Nobody air ever guilty who gets in jail.... Folks be mostly guilty that air out o' prison to my mind." "That air true, Daddy Skinner," she assented, smiling. "Sure it air true, but it ain't no good reason fer you to be yappin' 'bout Auburn, air it?... Now git that look out of yer eyes, an' tell Tessibel what air troublin' ye!" But Daddy Skinner's grave old face still kept its set expression.
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