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The business of the meeting having been thus happily accomplished, the occupants of the parlor departed. "Come Stumpy, I want to hand the money over to you," said Leopold. "I don't want it now," replied Stumpy. "I shouldn't dare to take it into the house, for fear my beloved grandad should steal it. I think he would find some way to do it, without calling the deed by any hard name."
Well, we have both taken some chances since he was a Customs-clerk and I a contrabandista running the old Mercedes, but I reckon this is my rashest plunge. Anyhow, if I get my money back or not, I've put up the goods. Now you can tell Mayne to break out the guns." Mayne gave orders, derrick-booms swung from the stumpy masts, pulleys rattled, and heavy cases rose from the holds.
He was wagging his stumpy tail, anyway; but one can always give a dog the benefit of a doubt, and she believed that it began to wag more happily. Thus it was settled between them. All the affection which his nature held, which his rearing in a large kennel of other dogs had not permitted him to bestow upon any one master, now sprang to its most perfect development and centered upon this girl.
I am sure I do not know what I should have done if this had happened while I was with the party, for Tom, when feeling lonely, used to run straight up to me, wagging his stumpy tail and looking up with eyes which so plainly said that he was indeed glad to meet a fellow-countryman, for, though Dutchmen were kind enough to him, the scent was somewhat different.
She is as tall as Miss Brown, who is certainly not stumpy, and is some years older, if I am any judge of the fair sex." "Of course you are a judge of the fair sex, a most competent one, I should say. What boy of eighteen is not?" teased his uncle. "Where are your new acquaintances seated?" "They are at the other end of the next table with their backs to us.
And so he forced himself to wait while his brother contemplated the unpleasant truth that he had imparted. He knew that it was not in his nature to spend long over the process, but he was still by no means sure of the final result. Eustace spoke at length very suddenly. "See here, Stumpy!" he said. "There may be something in what you say, and there may not.
I only came in to tell you I was sorry for all the beastly things I said to you last night this morning, rather. I lost my temper which was fairly low of me, considering you had been up all night and I hadn't." He paused. Eustace was looking up at him from under frowning brows, his blue eyes piercing and merciless. "It's all very fine, Stumpy," he said, after a moment.
When they came upon Ridgeley, both cried out with delight. "Oh, what a dear, picturesque little town!" she said. "Well, well! I wonder how they came to build a town without a row of battlemented stores?" It lay among and upon the sharp, low, stumpy pine ridges in haphazard fashion, like a Swiss village. A small brook ran through it, smothered here and there in snow.
So I took it for a keepsake; here it is, and he extended his stumpy, brown little finger, and showed a thick, coarsely-made ring of gold, with an uncut red stone, of the size of a large cherry stone, set in it. 'The stone is a humbug, said Wylder. 'It's not real. I showed it to Platten and Foyle. It's some sort of glass. But I would not part with it.
Then he would overtake Pop with Patsy, whenever the little fellow could go. This was not often, for now there were many days when the boy had to lie all day on the lounge in the sitting-room, poring over his books or playing with Stumpy, brought into the kitchen to amuse him. Since the day of Tom's warning look, Carl rarely joined her daughter.
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