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I don't suppose you have any idea how tiresome a day in port is if one does not go ashore. The heat is really terrific, and under the awnings it feels exactly like sitting in an oven. In conclusion Peter wished he was at home again, and thought Toffy seemed rather down in his luck; and he remained Jane's ever-loving Peter.
... He could not go alone down the river; Ross and Toffy and Hopwood would have to come too, to man the four-oared boat, and some one would have to steer, because the river was dangerous of navigation and full of sandbanks and holes.
He told them that he had spent thirty years of his life at that one place, although he received his education as far east as Montreal. Married to an Indian woman, who spoke no English, he had a family of ten bright and clean children, each one of whom, as John soon found to his satisfaction, appreciated the Imperial Toffy which made a part of the stock of the Hudson Bay Company at that post also.
During all his short, happy life anxiety had never been his companion until now. It strangled his class ardor and made conscientious study impossible. Teola Graves' tearful, pain-stricken face rose constantly before him. His own eyes darkened at the thought. Oh, to go back to the toffy pull to live over again those last few weeks how different it all would be, and how repentant he was.
For a moment he imagined that Purvis's hand moved with suspicious suddenness towards his revolver-pocket. In the next Purvis had swung up the companion staircase and into the boat, and Peter jumped into his place as the sound of rowing and the splash of oars was heard behind him. Toffy rowed the bow-oar now, and Purvis, who knew every turn of the river, took the tiller-ropes.
'No, I want toffy; I have been eating Tom Trot all day. 'Where is Buckhurst? We must settle about the Aquatics. 'Well, I for one will not play if Fielding major plays amongst the Aquatics. That is settled. 'Oh! nonsense; he will pay his money if you ask him. 'I shall not ask him again. The captain duns us every day. It is an infernal shame. 'I say, Burnham, where can one get some toffy?
Peter was for getting some of his own sheep out here, and a few good horses. And Toffy had schemes for an immense shipping industry, which would carry cattle at so low a rate to England that beef might be sold there at fourpence a pound, which, as he remarked, would benefit all classes. Ross gave his two years' experience with a weight of wisdom.
Keep on praying and pray hard, and the next time you come here you shall take home your Daddy Skinner." Twenty young people had gathered for the toffy pull at Minister Graves'. Tess was the topic of conversation; every one was eager to talk of the unheard-of action in the court-room that day.
There was a mist rising down by the river, and the feeling of coolness in the air increased. He leaned against the wooden framework of the wire-netting and laid his head on his hands for a moment; then he came back to the drawing-room. 'Do you believe it? he said suddenly and sharply. 'I suppose it's true, said Toffy. 'God help us, Peter, this is a queer world!
The angel and the devil if they existed at all fled away and left one solitary man standing alone fighting for the sake of honour and clean hands. The clock struck ten, and the time was up. Peter went inside and laid his hand on Toffy's shoulder. 'Let's start, he said, 'if you are ready. 'All right, said Toffy, shutting the piano. 'I 'll go and get Ross.
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