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Updated: July 29, 2025
Ready-Money Jack was on his feet in a twinkling, thrust out his hand, gave his ancient crony the gripe of a giant, and slapping the other hand on a bench, "Sit down there," cried he, "Tom Slingsby!"
But I wrote a letter to him to send to-morrow morning for him to take my money for me, and so with good words I thought to coy with him. To bed. 8th. All the morning at the office. At noon Sir W. Batten, Col. Slingsby and I by coach to the Tower, to Sir John Robinson's, to dinner; where great good cheer. High company; among others the Duchess of Albemarle, who is ever a plain homely dowdy.
28th. Walking through White Hall I heard the King was gone to play at Tennis, so I down to the New Tennis Court, and saw him and Sir Arthur Slingsby play against my Lord of Suffolke and my Lord Chesterfield. The King beat three, and lost two sets, they all, and he particularly playing well, I thought.
I paid Slingsby five pounds ten shillings for his stock in trade, cart, and pony purchased sundry provisions of the landlady, also a wagoner's frock, which had belonged to a certain son of hers, deceased, gave my little animal a feed of corn, and prepared to depart.
Slingsby has a formidable opinion of the aristocratical feeling of old Ready-Money, and thinks, if Phoebe were even to make the matter up with the son, she would find the father totally hostile to the match.
"Monsieur le Capitaine is lost in consternation," said Nita, with a smile. "I think, Miss Horetzki," said Lewis, "that you probably mean admiration." "How you knows w'at I mean?" demanded Nita, quickly. "Ha! a very proper and pertinent question," observed Slingsby, in an audible though under tone.
The more Slingsby talked with him, the more he found him to his taste, and finding him almost as learned as himself, he forthwith engaged him as an assistant or usher in the school.
"Captain Slingsby here?" exclaimed Barnabas, glancing about. "Under the settee, yonder," nodded the Viscount, "wrapped up in the table-cloth." "By way of military cloak," explained the Viscount. "You see Sling was rather mellow, last night, and at such times he always imagines he's campaigning again insists upon sleeping on the floor."
To him the height of happiness was the practice of mischief. Danger in his estimation meant an extremely delicious form of mischief. "Is the place picturesque as well as dangerous?" asked Slingsby, with a wild look in his large eyes as he walked nearer to the Professor. "It is; you will find many aspects of ice-formation well worthy of your pencil."
Not seeing anything specially suggestive, he thought of aiding the operations of nature by expediting the descent of some neighbouring boulders from their positions on ice-blocks. He intimated his intention to Slingsby, but the artist was too much engrossed to give heed to him. Just as he was rising, Gillie's eye fell on the rope, and a happy thought struck him.
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