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Ab ipso tunc patriarcha Sophronio nomine, viro veneranda canitie honestissimo ac sanctissimo, grandi cymbalorum tonitru, et luminarium immenso fulgore suscepti, ad diuinissimam ecclesiam sanctissimi sepulchri, tam Syrorum, quam Latinornm solenni processione deducti sumus.
Tam superintended the preparation of Lieutenant Bartholomew's "pup" and climbing in gave the signal. "What's the matter with Tam?" Thornycroft, a flight commander of 89 A, had strolled across and stood with Blackie watching Tam's tiny machine humming cloudward.
It is difficult to make acquaintance through a wall of logs. Finally Ambrose asked how it was she could speak English, and that unlocked her simple story. "My fat'er teach me," she said. "He is half a white man. He come here long tam ago and marry Kakisa. He spik ver' good Angleys. When Watusk is make head man he mad at my fat'er because my fat'er spik Angleys.
The wearer of the red tam was one of the apartment-house children, the sad man was popularly known to the neighbourhood as the Miser, and the girl, to whose assistance he had sprung well, he had seen her on two previous occasions.
That is, I put on the shortest old tweed skirt I have and a red jacket with sleeves three years behind the fashion, but jolly pockets to put your hands in, and a still redder tam. Thus accoutred, I sallied forth. It was such a lovely evening that I couldn't help enjoying myself in spite of my sorrows. The sun was low and creamy, and the snow was so white and the shadows so slender and blue.
The giant slunk down, trying to hide himself. "Yes," said Tam, "I have learned what a poor sense of proportion some of you students seem to have. It was not to see who could write the most, but who could write the best, that I set the theme. One gentleman he has been careful to give me his full name and address," twinkled Tam, and picking up a huge manuscript he read it from the outer page, "Mr.
An' I'm say, mebe so I'm learn de ways of de white women, my man tak' me 'long nex' tam'. "De pries' he t'ink 'bout dat a long tam'. Den he go over to de Hudson Bay Pos' an' talk to McTavish, de factor, an' by-m-by he com' back and tak' me over to de pos' store an' give me de outfit so I'm com' to de school on de Yellow Knife. Plent' grub an' warm blankets dey give me.
Sylvia was worth watching as she pulled her tam o' shanter over her head, her face all aglow. "I've undervalued your 'samples, as you call them, my lamb," she chatted on. "Of course you must take lessons and be a legitimate something some day a singer, I fancy, but in the meantime we must utilize what we have." On the way through the frosty streets Sylvia grew more mystifying.
She read the letter carefully through, placed it in an envelope, and, marking it private, addressed it to Walter's chambers in the Temple, whence she knew it must be forwarded if he were away. Then, putting on her tam o' shanter, she went out to the village grocer's, where she posted it, so that it left by the early morning mail. When would his welcome telegram arrive?
"Ballantree was her name before she was married," the girl admitted. "And her Christian name's Barbara. Do you know her?" "I do, slightly," replied the man. "But I had no idea that she " He broke off abruptly, looking more closely than ever at the vivid face under the knitted tam. "I suppose, if you don't know her very well, she never spoke to you about having a daughter?" Barrie asked.
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