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Updated: May 29, 2025
Isn't it about time you should be wanting to see your niece?" The captain's heart sank. Did she intend to send Olive home? "I always want to see her," he said, but without enthusiasm. "But don't you think it would be nice," said the lady, "if you were to come to lunch with us to-morrow? It was to ask you this that I inquired for you at the toll-gate."
"A pleasant-faced woman now came to the door of the little house and stood expectant, while Captain Abner thrust his hand into his pocket. "'How much is it? said he. "'It's ten cents, said she. "Then Sam Twitty, who did not wish to sit silent, remarked that it was a fine day, and the toll-gate woman said that indeed it was.
Maria said little to the taciturn butcher on their way to Glenford, but she smiled a good deal to herself. For years it had been the desire of her life to go to live in the toll-gate not with any idea of ousting Captain Asher oh, no, by no means. Old Mr. Port could not live much longer, and his daughter would not care to reside in the Glenford house by herself.
"Thank you," said Jamrach, and was about to proceed. "About how much do you thank me?" was the reply. "Do you suppose I am here for my health?" As Jamrach had not become rich by stupidity, he handed something to his guide and hastened on, and soon came to a toll-gate kept by a Benevolent Gentleman, to whom he gave something, and was suffered to pass.
I wish I had been here to take it! That truly would have been a lark!" Dick Lancaster did not echo this wish of his host. He was very glad, indeed, that the captain had not been at the toll-gate when the ladies passed through. Captain Asher was still laughing. "Olive must have been amazed," he said.
But she just shot through the toll-gate as if she didn't know there was a toll on bicycles." The captain stood still in the garden-path. He could not believe that Olive had done this to treat him with contempt. She must have heard some news. There must be something the matter. She was going into town at the top of her speed to send a telegram, intending to stop as she came back.
It is constant and fixed, like the smell of salt mackerel. He would never keep a toll-gate; nor would he marry a young wife. Not that I object to either of these things, for if the one had not happened I would never have known you; and if the other had not happened, I might not have become engaged to you."
'I really must go on, she said. 'You truly are a funny lot, all of you. And as she drove on she looked back, still laughing. "Sam Twitty rubbed his hands together quite cheerfully, and went into the house to get his dinner. "'Did that woman change your five-dollar note? asked the keeper of the toll-gate. "'Bless my soul! exclaimed Sam. 'I never thought to ask her.
Upon the side of the road opposite to the great post on which the toll-gate moved, was a little house with a covered doorway, from which toll could be collected without exposing the collector to sun or rain. This tollhouse was not a plain whitewashed shed, such as is often seen upon turnpike roads, but a neat edifice, containing a comfortable room.
But since Captain Asher had lived at the toll-gate it was remarked that the shunpike was not used as much as in former times. There were penurious people who had once preferred to go a long way round and save money whose economical dispositions now gave way before the combined attractions of a better road, and a chat with Captain Asher.
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