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The captain attributed this satisfactory condition of affairs to the rules and regulations, though a slight indiscretion on the part of Mr. Tasker, necessitating the unframing of the document to add to the latter, caused him a little annoyance. The first intimation he had of it was a loud knocking at the front door as he sat dozing one afternoon in his easy-chair.
Her usual manner of entering a room was with her head eagerly thrust forward, and her long arms swinging; that was when she was quite comfortable and unselfconscious, but all this must be changed now, and to achieve this Miss Tasker devised an ingenious method of torture, which was practised every morning. It was this.
"Well," said the captain, sharply, as he turned and caught sight of him, "what are you waiting there for?" Mr. Tasker drifted towards the door which led upstairs. "I I thought you were thinking of something we could do to prevent her coming, sir," he said, slowly. "It's hard on me, because as a matter of fact " "Well?" said the captain.
I didn't know whether I ought to take the risk. And then he said his memorable thing: "If you can take the risk of living My God," he said, "if I only had your luck!" His luck, I told him, was a dead certainty. There wasn't a paper that would refuse Tasker Jevons as War-Correspondent. He'd only got to volunteer. Why on earth, I asked him, didn't he? He became very grave.
To any good old county family, Tasker Jevons's celebrity was nothing, if it was not an added offence, and his opulence was less than nothing. In settling among them he ran the risk of being ignored. But when it came to ignoring, Jimmy considered that success lay with the party who got in first.
The captain attributed this satisfactory condition of affairs to the rules and regulations, though a slight indiscretion on the part of Mr. Tasker, necessitating the unframing of the document to add to the latter, caused him a little annoyance. The first intimation he had of it was a loud knocking at the front door as he sat dozing one afternoon in his easy-chair.
Tasker's second infringement of discipline occurred to him, and, stretching out his hand, he rang the bell. "Has that young woman gone?" he inquired, cautiously, as Mr. Tasker appeared. "Yessir," was the reply. "What about your articles?" demanded the captain, with sudden loudness. "What do you mean by it?" Mr. Tasker eyed him forlornly. "It ain't my fault," he said, at last. "I don't want her."
He remembered how big Schwoebel, and Tasker, and Binford, Goodrich, and McLearn, with himself and another man whom he recalled afterward as Boehringer, a Kansas man, had clubbed self-respect into a few of them and kicked the other whining cowards from their way.
Take the dress gracefully between fingers and thumb. Raise the head. One two three begin!" The music played. Bridget was intensely nervous, but through it all she felt a perverse pleasure in irritating Miss Tasker, so she performed some grotesquely uncouth steps which raised a smile on almost every face. "Again, if you please." It was done again, and if possible worse than before.
Chalk shook his head and, finding that his friends had by no means exhausted the subject, suddenly bethought himself of an engagement and left them. Miss Vickers, who heard the news from Mr. Joseph Tasker, received it with an amount of amazement highly gratifying to his powers as a narrator. Her strongly expressed opinion afterwards that he had misunderstood what he had heard was not so agreeable.
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