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Reade; and the village community kept open ears while the lust of its eyes remained, perforce, unsatisfied. If Stott's gate slammed in the wind, every door that commanded a view of that gate was opened, and heads appeared, and bare arms the indications of women who nodded to each other, shook their heads, pursed their lips and withdrew for the time to attend the pressure of household duty.
From those long studious hours of practice he emerged with a characteristic that was and still remains unique. Stott never took more than two steps before delivering the ball; frequently he bowled from a standing position, and batsmen have confessed that of all Stott's puzzling mannerisms, this was the one to which they never became accustomed.
So when he found that there was a suitable cottage to let in Stoke, he looked no farther for a home; he was completely satisfied. Stott's absorption in any matter that was occupying his mind made him exceedingly careless about the detail of his affairs. He took the first cottage that offered when he looked for a home, he took the first woman who offered when he looked for a wife.
Come, will you join forces with me?" Shirley shook her head and was about to reply when the telephone bell rang. Ryder took up the receiver and spoke to the butler downstairs: "Who's that? Judge Stott? Tell him I'm too busy to see anyone. What's that? A man's life at stake? What's that to do with me? Tell him " On hearing Stott's name, Shirley nearly betrayed herself.
In July, however, affairs took me to Ailesworth, and the associations of the place naturally led me to wonder how Stott's marriage had turned out, and whether the much-desired son had been born to him. When my business in Ailesworth was done, I decided to walk out to Stoke-Underhill. The road passes the County Ground, and a match was in progress, but I walked by without stopping.
Unless support comes from some unexpected quarter we must be prepared for anything." Support from some unexpected quarter! Stott's closing words rang in Shirley's head. Was that not just what she had to offer? Unable to restrain herself longer and her heart beating tumultuously from suppressed emotion, she cried: "We'll have that support! We'll have it! I've got it already!
Stott's back door to the door of the coal-shed, which marked the alley's extreme limit. This measurement, an apparently negligible trifle, had an important effect upon Stott's career. For it was in this yard that he taught himself to bowl, and the shortness of the pitch precluded his taking any run.
Stott's marital ties rested so lightly upon him that a stranger would never have known they existed. He gravitated toward Miss Gaskett with a promptitude which gave rise to the suspicion that he had had his eye upon her, and Miss Gaskett responded so enthusiastically that it was a matter for gossip.
Seems as she was goin' to take lunch with Busby Bell's cousin Luther Stott's wife as she met at the Lupeys' in Meadville, 'cause they only live three-quarters of an hour from town on two changes of the electric, an' Mrs. Stott told Mrs.
"Do you suppose any thing's happened?" "He locked the door because he does not want to be disturbed, and the towel is to keep the light out," Mr. Stott deduced. "Of course!" They all laughed heartily and admired Mr. Stott's shrewdness. "Any fool would have thought of that," growled Mr. Penrose.
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