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She had discovered Uncle Gradelle's treasure at the bottom of a salting-tub. The heap of money made a deep impression in the softy downy bed. Lisa and Quenu evinced a quiet delight. They sat down on the edge of the bed, Lisa at the head and Quenu at the foot, on either side of the heap of coins, and they counted the money out upon the counterpane, so as to avoid making any noise.
"Stop, master, stop, if you don't want to kill the boy outright," said Roberts, one of the crew, stepping forward, while the hot flush of indignation burned through his tanned and weather-beaten cheek. The sailors called him "Softy Bob," from that half-gentleness of disposition which had made him, alone of all the men, speak one kind or consoling word for the proud and lonely cabin-boy.
He dreaded being thought a "softy," and had even at times felt a kind of envy of the boys whose consciences did not trouble them if they swore, or indulged in sly smokes, or defiled their mouths with filthy quids. Mr. Silver's words now came in good time to give a changed current to these thoughts.
When the place was packed full the undertaker he slid around in his black gloves with his softy soothering ways, putting on the last touches, and getting people and things all ship-shape and comfortable, and making no more sound than a cat. He never spoke; he moved people around, he squeezed in late ones, he opened up passageways, and done it with nods, and signs with his hands.
It's the way as lads have; and there's no holding 'em when they're fellows as nobody knows neither where they come fro', nor what they've been doing a' their lives, till they come athwart some poor wench like Nancy Hartley. She were but a softy after all: for she left off doing her work in a proper manner.
"And now I'm off to find the other fellows who were with me that night," continued Farley. Five minutes later Farley was explaining to Midshipman Henkel. "Well, you are the softy!" said Henkel, in a sneering tone. "Why?" demanded Farley stiffly. "To fall for a frame-up like that." "Do you mean that my cousin lied to me?" "No; but Grierson certainly did."
"My father died when I was five, Clara, and no matter what my feelings are to you, there's no power on earth can make me quit having to be him as well as a son to my mother. Maybe it sounds softy to you but if I got to pay with her happiness for ours then I never want happiness to the day I die." "In other words, it's the mother first." "Don't put it that way it's her age first.
"He said: 'Search me, and went on writing. "I dropped the directory on his desk, and said, "'Well, if Mr. Nesbitt loses a good tenant, I should worry. "Then he looked up and said: 'Oh, let's see. There's Jim Green, and Softy Meadows, and and Tully Scott and that's enough. "So I called them up. Jim Green was in jail for petty larceny. Softy Meadows was in bed with a broken leg.
Every ounce of courage had oozed away from him, for he had seen Noxton brought down, and thought the rascal was dead. "Shut up, you softy!" answered his parent in a rage. "Shut up, and we will be safe. I'll never give in to a Rover," he added vehemently. Tom and Sam had gone after the Baxters, with Jack Wumble behind them while the last man of the party turned to collar Roebuck.
Some of the rough fellows about the place call him a "softy," but that is much too strong a word; no doubt he is confused in his ideas, but he reads all the great American publications about fruit and flowers, and executes their instructions with tact and skill. Where he breaks down and who would believe this? is in the trade department.
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