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After five minutes had gone by, he noticed that there at his left, at the very foot of the tilbury, was the fortune teller's house, the very same as Rita had once consulted. Never, as at this moment, had he so desired to believe in card-reading. He looked closer, saw that the windows were closed, while all the others on the street were opened, filled with folks curious to see what was the matter.
The ball was a disused pot-hat of the baronet's, and the combatants were the two owners of the study versus their cronies and fellow "Shell-fish" Tilbury, of the second eleven, and Dimsdale, the gossip. There had been some very fine play on both sides, and a maul in goal at the towel-horse end, in which the dog had participated, and been for a considerable period mistaken for the ball.
And so, with all lights out and steered by a thin shifting ray from her captor's conning-tower, the Kaiser's yacht made its strange way to Tilbury. The instant she dropped her anchor a couple of destroyers ran out from the Gravesend shore and ranged alongside her. The next minute a British captain and three lieutenants followed by a hundred bluejackets had boarded her.
"There was one gent round here this morning askin' his way, but except for him we bin remarkable quiet." "What sort of a gent?" I demanded with interest. "Smallish, 'e was, sir, an' very civil spoken. Wanted to get to Tilbury." "Did he ask who the boat belonged to, by any chance?" Mr. Gow reflected for a moment. "Now you come to mention it, sir, I b'lieve 'e did.
"I don't mind," said Tilbury, "as it's not money. Any fellow sell me six stamps?" "Yes, for sevenpence," said Arthur. "I'm not going in, young Simson. My governor said to me the chances were some young blackleg or other would be on to me to shell out something for a swindle of the kind; and he said, `Don't you do it. Besides, I've not got the money."
Then, grasping my bag, I marched up the platform behind him, coming to a halt outside an empty first-class carriage. "This will do," he said, and finding no sound reason for contradicting him I stepped in and put my bag upon the rack. "Good-bye, Savaroff," I said cheerfully. "I shall have the pleasure of seeing you too at Tilbury, I suppose?"
A kettle hanging from a crook in the chimney-place boiled over, hissing down upon the hot wood-ashes. She sprang up and lifted it down to the hearth. "Oh, and I forgot!" Her hand went back to her bodice again. "Mr. Jack Rogers was here this morning inquiring for you. He drove up in his tilbury, and said he was on his way to Plymouth. But he left this note."
When the spotted head of a certain bay horse happened to cross the narrow strip between the two rows of houses, Caroline gave a little shiver and stood on tiptoe in hope of recognizing the white traces and the color of the tilbury. It was he!
The Dutch sailed next to Portsmouth, where they made a fruitless attempt: they met with no better success at Plymouth: they insulted Harwich: they sailed again up the Thames as far as Tilbury, where they were repulsed.
In the Otia Imperialia of Gervasius of Tilbury, we see this belief in formation; the main point in that work is that he is the protector of Naples, defending it by various contrivances from war or pestilence. He was familiarly spoken of among the Neapolitans as Parthenias, in allusion to his chastity.
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