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Boisterous cries of "Hallo, sobersides!" and "Cock, cock, cock!" greeted the Colonel, as, partly of his own accord and partly urged by unceremonious hands, he crossed the threshold, and shot forward into the room. The scene presented by the apartment matched the flushed faces and the wandering eyes which the windows had framed.
He called me silly and said I was going to live to be eighty, and that a gasoline-tractor couldn't kill me. But he promised I'd be the only one, whatever happened. And I believe him. I know Dinky-Dunk would go in black for a solid year, if I should die, and he'd never, never marry again, for he's the sort of Old Sobersides who can only love one woman in one lifetime. And I'm the woman, glory be!
I shall get five crowns and two gowns a year, and many a fee besides when there is company, so we may build the house the sooner, and I shall not be mewed up, and shall see the more of thee. 'Tis all for you. So never look so gloomy on it, old Sobersides."
Sobersides," she said with a brisk little laugh, "if I wasn't a little bit afraid you'd give me away to Mamma, You know how horribly conventional she is and and it's only lately that I came to think one could trust you with a secret of this sort." "Secrets," he assured her with a grin, "are my specialty. Secrets. Why it's my business to know secrets!" "All right!
There must be a secret between them. She who belonged to a society of whom each member had to vow not to have a secret from any other member, was about to break her vow. The girls were in high spirits to-night, and in no mood to talk "sobersides," as Mary Bertram sometimes called their graver discussions.
The pale stars swung up and down as the Buford slipped over each wave, and little ripples of breeze cooled the weather side of the ship. By this time we were a thoroughly assorted company. The afterdeck was yielded to flirtatious married ladies whose husbands were awaiting them in Manila, while we sobersides and the family groups gathered under the awnings.
"You are much too savage you need a posy to soften you. There! Now come to this seat." She led him to a rustic double chair under the heavily fruited boughs of an apple-tree, and made him sit down. She began with a vivacious playfulness, poorly assumed, to hide her real feeling. "Now, sobersides, it must end this foolishness of yours " She stopped, waiting for some question of his to help her.
"You dear old sobersides, you how gaunt and careworn you look, and how hungry, and what wild eyes you have to frighten one with! At first I thought you were a crazy man." He held her face up to his eager eyes, having no words to say, overcome by the joy that surged through him like a mighty rush of waters.
Roger Hapgood lifted his pale, heavy-lidded eyes from the pages of his magazine and regarded Conniston with a look from which not all reproach had yet gone. "I hope you've been enjoying yourself in this Eden of yours," he said, sourly. Conniston sent his hat spinning across the room, to lodge behind the bed, and laughed. "You've called the turn, Sobersides!
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