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"It was not long ago, certainly," said Morris, with great gravity. "I admit that we have not been slow to to arrive at an understanding. But that was very natural, from the moment we were sure of ourselves and of each other. My interest in Miss Sloper began the first time I saw her." "Did it not by chance precede your first meeting?" the Doctor asked. Morris looked at him an instant.
A week after her birth the young mother, who, as the phrase is, had been doing well, suddenly betrayed alarming symptoms, and before another week had elapsed Austin Sloper was a widower.
The cook made mute protest for delay, threw a handful of bacon into a noisy pot of beans, then came to attention. Sloper rose to his feet. His body was a ludicrous contrast to the healthy physiques of the Incapables. Yellow and weak, fleeing from a South American fever-hole, he had not broken his flight across the zones, and was still able to toil with men.
Majority rule! clamored the rest of the party. 'I know the expedition is liable to fall through if you don't come, Sloper replied sweetly; 'but I guess, if we try real hard, we can manage to do without you. What do you say, boys? The sentiment was cheered to the echo. 'But I say, you know, Cuthfert ventured apprehensively; 'what's a chap like me to do?
'He'll be shore to ask yuh what yur a-goin' to do when it comes to cookin' an' gatherin' the wood. 'Then we'll consider it all arranged, concluded Sloper.
Of course I must wear black when I go out, but it would be no harm to wear something brighter at home. I could get some delicate gray cashmere, and Mrs. Sloper can cut and fit it, and you and I can make it evenings. I want a sort of house-gown trimmed with satin.
With these three gangs and the tender's crew at his back, Alms determined to lay siege to Brighton and teach the fishermen there a lesson they should not soon forget. But first, in order to render the success of the project doubly sure, he enlisted the aid of Major-General Sloper, Commandant at Lewes, who readily consented to lend a company of soldiers to assist in the execution of the design.
Two years later Mrs. Sloper gave birth to a second infant an infant of a sex which rendered the poor child, to the Doctor's sense, an inadequate substitute for his lamented first- born, of whom he had promised himself to make an admirable man. The little girl was a disappointment; but this was not the worst.
A man was blundering down the hillside toward them, an easel on his shoulder. As he came closer his face seemed strangely familiar to the young man. Where had he seen it? Then he recollected in a flash. It was the face Albert had drawn in caricature on the stable-door the face of Ally Sloper.
"The word of a gentleman that I am not mercenary; that my affection for Miss Sloper is as pure and disinterested a sentiment as was ever lodged in a human breast! I care no more for her fortune than for the ashes in that grate." "I take note I take note," said the Doctor. "But having done so, I turn to our category again. Even with that solemn vow on your lips, you take your place in it.
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