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Then the poor wretch fainted away: and Tallboys coming up with the men, he was taken on their shoulders and walked off to the hospital, attended by the gunner and also the boatswain, who thought he might as well have a little medical advice before he went on board.
One of them was a portion of a letter, and she recognized at once the handwriting of Mr. Tallboys. It contained only the words: "My dear Mr. Penfold In accordance with your request I send you the " But above was the date, which was ten days only anterior to Mr. Penfold's death. Mrs.
Tallboys about that, and so do I. I have never been able to abide them, though, as my husband says, they are good women in many respects, and always ready to help in parish matters.
And while she glanced at the pictures and the crowded bootrack and the old tallboys, Joan's sudden color went away again.... He was a bachelor. He had left her on the other side of the bridge. He had hurt her last night. How awfully she must have hurt him! "When will Martin be back?" "I don't know," said Joan. "Probably to-morrow. I'm not sure."
He was invalided and sent home during Jack's absence, and another had been appointed, whose name was Tallboys. Mr Tallboys was a stout dumpy man, with red face, and still redder hands; he had red hair and red whiskers, and he had read a great deal for Mr Tallboys considered that the gunner was the most important personage in the ship.
Tallboys cannot spare time himself, he can send a clerk with me or get somebody who will take me in charge; but at any rate I intend to go by myself if necessary. I do not suppose it will cause any delay about the will, Mr. Withers; for of course there must be some trouble in having it proved." "It can make no difference, Mrs. Conway. I do not give that the least thought.
Tallboys, "that men are so much afraid of the discussion that they try to elude it with empty compliment under which is couched a covert sneer." "Perhaps," returned Julius, "we might complain that we can't open our lips without compliments and sneers being detected when we were innocent of both." "Were you?" demanded Mrs. Tallboys.
Mr Tallboys, who had been latterly very much annoyed by Jack's victories over him in the science of navigation, and therefore felt ill-will towards him, consented; but he was very much puzzled how to arrange that three were to fight at the same time, for he had no idea of there being two duels; so he went to his cabin and commenced reading.
Jack had no one to confide in but Gascoigne, a fellow-midshipman; and although Gascoigne thought it was excessively infra dig. of Jack to meet even the boatswain, as the challenge had been given there was no retracting, and he therefore consented and went to meet Mr. Tallboys. "Mr. Gascoigne," said the gunner, "you see that there are three parties to fight.
The one was from Mrs. Withers. The will had not been found. Mr. Tallboys had searched in vain. Every cabinet and drawer in the house had been ransacked. No signs whatever had been found of the will. "Mr. Tallboys is perfectly convinced that it must be hidden in some altogether exceptional place.
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