United States or Hungary ? Vote for the TOP Country of the Week !
Sitting on the top of a cask, he puffed away at his pipe and soliloquized to himself about his passenger, who sat regarding Jack Snape's movements at the helm with much interest. The skipper had three or four boys at home, great sturdy, brown-faced, stout-armed fellows, between whom and this fair-faced, curly-headed boy there was little resemblance, he felt.
You have forged bills to the amount of twelve hundred pounds. Yours is not the case of a ruined merchant or an ignorant over-tempted clerk. I do not want to speak harshly; but I insist that you find means to take up the bill which Mr. Axminster has so unwittingly endorsed!" The Honorable Miss Snape's grand manner melted away. She wept. She seized and pressed my hand.
'All right, said Charley; 'I'll tumble up and be with them in ten seconds; and then collecting together a large bundle of the arrears of the Kennett and Avon lock entries, being just as much as he could carry, he took the disordered papers and placed them on Mr. Snape's desk, exactly over the paper on which he was writing, and immediately under his nose. 'Mr. Tudor Mr. Tudor! said Snape.
And the whole file vanished round a corner. The yelling of imprisoned cheese-fed boys grew louder. The Signal would have telephoned to Snape's, but for the fact that a circus is never on the telephone. It then telephoned to its Oldcastle agent, who, after a long delay, was able to reply that the cavalcade had left Oldcastle at the appointed hour, with every sign of health and energy.
Persons in the inmost ring whispered that Denry Machin had at length been bested on this critically important day. Snape's Circus used to be one of the great shining institutions of North Staffordshire, trailing its magnificence on sculptured wheels from town to town, and occupying the dreams of boys from one generation to another.
He ought to have been happy enough, for he had his charmer in his arms; but he showed very little of the ecstatic joy of a favoured lover. There he sat with Norah in his arms, and as we have said, Norah was a handsome girl; but he would much sooner have been copying the Kennett and Avon canal lock entries in Mr. Snape's room at the Internal Navigation. 'Lawks, Mr.
Even boys will not go to circuses in the middle of a Five Towns' winter. The Signal people had hired the processional portion of Snape's for the late afternoon and early evening. And the instructions were that the entire cortège should be round about the Signal offices, in marching order, not later than five o'clock.
I am a married man, with a family, and have nothing but my salary to depend on." "Then the sooner you get it taken up, and the less you have to do with Miss Snape's bill affairs, the better." "She has always been punctual hitherto." "That may be." I pointed to the cross-writing on the document, and said deliberately, "This bill is a forgery!" At these words the poor man turned pale.
At the hour fixed, punctual to a moment, a brougham drew up at the corner of the street next to my chambers. The Honorable Miss Snape's card was handed in. Presently, she entered, swimming into my room, richly, yet simply dressed in the extreme of Parisian good taste. She was pale or rather colorless. She had fair hair, fine teeth, and a fashionable voice.
The Signal meant to liven up the streets of the Five Towns on that great day by means of a display of all the gilt chariots of Snape's Circus in the main thoroughfare. Many of the boys would be in the gilt chariots. Copies of the anniversary number of the Signal would be sold from the gilt chariots.
Word Of The Day