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"Not to please me," she answered, with the air of a Madame Defarge in blue spectacles. The Mariner came up before we had got into open sea. For the moment the three ladies were occupied in watching Tibe, who had fallen asleep in his cape, and was running with all his feet in some wild dream, flickering in every muscle, and wrinkling his black mug into alarming grimaces.
If he turns up at the Amstel to prosecute his inquiries, he may hear of Tibe, and of the two beautiful young ladies. Then he will put two and two together, and will be after us as Starr's favorite expression is "before we can say knife." At present I have all the sensations of being a villain, with none of the advantages.
Even if Tibe but I dared not think of Tibe. Horatius holding his bridge alone, was nothing compared to me. No one could help me now. "Pooh! Do you expect me to believe that? After what happened at Leeuwarden when I trusted you?" "You trusted me," said I, coldly, "with good reason, and it would be well if you did so again.
"Come, Tibe," the lady added in a firm voice, "you and I will go away and leave this gentlemen to select from all the other charming and eligible aunts who have no doubt answered his quite conventional and much-to-be-desired advertisement." "For heaven's sake, don't go!" cried the man, springing to his feet. "There, your dog's got the duck. But it doesn't matter.
"What a cat!" interpolated the Chaperon. "Could it be possible that Tibe ever was his?" asked Nell. "He sold his dog just a year ago, when he was six months old " "I bought Tibe ten months ago, poor lamb, for a song, because he was ill he'd been seasick on a long voyage, so I nursed him up, and see what he is now," said Tibe's mistress.
In spite of this fact I had little time to spare, though it appeared that en route to the boat a delay was caused by Tibe jumping into a cab with two elderly ladies from Boston, who, so far from reciprocating his overtures, nearly swooned with terror, and had to be soothed and sustained by the entire party.
We've had a loathsome lunch cold ham and pappy bread with paper napkins, and the whole meal served on one plate, by a female even my aunt was afraid of. There isn't a cow within miles, much less a cow with a coat " "Perhaps one may pass while you wait. Ta, ta. Your turn will come soon." And I left him glaring at Tibe and muttering threats of revenge against me.
To all appearance oblivious of ever having seen my insignificant features on land or sea, she came smiling up, on the friendliest terms with Starr. The vacant chair, most conveniently placed for her, was close to the wheel, and I hoped that she would take it. But rather than be thus trapped, she stepped over Tibe and pushed past her stepsister with an "I beg your pardon, dear."
"Oh, please, now," urged the gentle voice which every one but Tibe obeys; "because, you know, I'm not strong, and when I set my heart on a thing, and suffer disappointment, it makes me ill. If I were ill I should have to go home, and those darling girls couldn't finish the trip." "You haven't had time to set your heart upon a house here," said Starr. "You only thought of it a minute ago."
Besides, you needn't worry about it till you make up your mind which angel you want." "I should naturally want whichever one you did. We are made like that." "If you don't agree, and they go 'botoring' without you, you can't get either." "That's true. Most disagreeable things are. And there's just a chance, if you get dangerous, that Tibe might polish you off. I saw the way he looked at you.
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