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"Ah, but you mustn't spend that. You've got to help pay for the gun. Come on. Here, Polly, two bottles of ginger-beer, and sixpenn'orth of bis I say, got any fresh gingerbread?" This was to a stoutish, dark-eyed woman of about one-and-twenty, as we entered the cottage, in one of whose windows there was a shelf with a row of bottles of sweets and a glass jar of biscuits.
And not long after, without another word, he passed away. In the meantime the captain, whom I had observed to be wonderfully swollen about the chest and pockets, had turned out a great many various stores the British colors, a Bible, a coil of stoutish rope, pen, ink, the log-book, and pounds of tobacco.
The end wall is a silvery screen nearly as large as a pair of folding doors. The door is on your left as you face the screen; and there is a row of thick pegs, padded and covered with velvet, beside it. A stoutish middle-aged man, good-looking and breezily genial, dressed in a silk smock, stockings, handsomely ornamented sandals, and a gold fillet round his brows, comes in.
Apparently no one replaced him, for she never married, but grew stoutish, grayish, philanthropic yet how sweet she had been when he had first kissed her! One more wasted life, he reflected... But the stage had always been his master-passion. He would have sold his soul for the time and freedom to write plays! It was in him he could not remember when it had not been his deepest-seated instinct.
"Look at that horse," cried young and old, with eyes as big as saucers, pointing with their fingers at Lady Clare. "Handsome carcass that mare has," remarked a stoutish man, who knew what he was talking about; "and head and legs to match." "She beats your Valders-Roan all hollow, John Garvestad," said a young tease who stood next to him in the crowd.
And not long after, without another word, he passed away. In the meantime the captain, whom I had observed to be wonderfully swollen about the chest and pockets, had turned out a great many various stores the British colours, a Bible, a coil of stoutish rope, pen, ink, the log-book, and pounds of tobacco.
Nay, more, I am of opinion that I was still more favoured by fortune, and have actually met and spoken with that inimitable author. Our encounter was of a tall, stoutish, elderly gentleman, a little grizzled, and of a rugged but cheerful and engaging countenance.
The stoutish old gentleman had a glass of bitter beer, and then said in the peculiarly quiet voice of a very deaf man: "Can you tell me, if you please, the way into the main Catton road?" "Down the lane, turn to the right at the cross-roads, then first to the left."
"Yes, sir." Then another figure appeared under the Maltese cross. It was clad in white ducks, with a blue reefer ornamented in gold, and a yachting cap crowned in white: a stoutish and middle-aged figure, much like Mr. Gilman himself in bearing and costume, except that Mr. Gilman had no gold on his jacket. "Well, skipper!" greeted Mr. Gilman, jauntily and spryly. In one moment, in one second, Mr.
Congreve, a middle-aged man, with iron-gray hair, short beard and mustache, short nose, gray eyes, with spectacles, and stoutish body. Next came Noel Oxenden, late of Trinity College, Cambridge, a college friend of Featherstone's a tall man, with a refined and intellectual face and reserved manner.
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