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He held on and Harriet turned and retreated ingloriously. John Starkweather's face was a study! "Did you ever grease a wagon?" I asked him genially. "Never," he said.
While you are at Doctor Starkweather's you are within easy reach of this place. Please think of it." I thought of it seriously enough. The foremost question which I had to consider was the question of my husband.
In commerce, he had merely continued the same species of career; and by virtue of being thoroughly depreciated, and even pitied, by his customers, he had risen in six years from the grade of city insurance solicitor to that of Mr. Starkweather's principal assistant.
"Oh, I'm just about the same," complained his hostess; "not down sick, but gruntin'. Folks that's up an' down like I am don't get nigh as much sympathy as they 'd ought. I tell Starkweather, well folks like him an' Idy ain't fittin' comp'ny fer an inv'lid." "Mr. Starkweather's lookin' better 'n he did," said Parker, listening rapturously to the thumps of the rolling-pin in the pantry.
Her father did not dare even whisper again. He longed to tell her to hurry, but dared not speak. Anne was now tugging and twisting at the rope which held her father's wrists, and managed to loosen it so that he could work his hands free. Then they both began to loosen Captain Starkweather's cords, and in a few minutes he too was free.
Mix knew that he was brainier than John Starkweather; he admitted it. Brainier, smoother, quicker of wit, and more polished. But Starkweather's office handled the bulk of local realty transactions; it wrote more insurance than all of its competitors in a mass; it loaned almost as much money, on mortgage, as the Trust and Savings. And Mr. Mix, Broker, was on the verge of bankruptcy. Luck!
He turned his head to listen, and then raised the glass and leveled it on Starkweather's ranch. "I thought at first that was Idy," he said to himself, "but it wa'n't. She 's got a cheerful disposition, but I don't believe she'd laugh that a-way when she's a-learnin' a bull calf to drink; that ain't what I call a laughin' job.
"Take that to Miss Starkweather's house and say I sent you with it." When she was gone, he turned to Latimer again. "Before I go," he said, "I want to say a few words to you to ask you to make me a promise." "What is the promise?" said Latimer. "It is that we shall be friends friends." Baird laid his hand on the man's gaunt shoulder with a nervous grasp as he spoke, and his voice was unsteady.
After the way Henry's acted, he don't deserve one bit of sympathy, or one dollar from anybody. And if I've got anything to say, he won't get it, either." Mr. Starkweather's round, fat face, wore an expression which his sister hadn't seen before. He stood up, and held the back of his chair for support. "Mirabelle, you haven't got a word to say about it.
The English schooner had sent a shot through Captain Starkweather's fine new mainsail, followed by a command to lay to, and before Mr. Nelson had had time to fasten the door of the cabin, the schooner was abreast of the sloop and in a few moments the Province Town boat was taken in tow by the English schooner, and Mr. Nelson and Captain Starkweather found themselves prisoners.
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