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"Here is another of the moral results of this idiotic bazaar," Stephen burst forth, as soon as Miss Torry had left the room, "taking young ladies from the duties of the domestic hearth into scenes of dissipation among urn-rugs and embroidered reticules!
"Which fellow?" asked Torry trying to focus the glass on the strange craft. "The man forward. He's looking this way. See! The man with the whiskers," whispered Morgan. "I see him," returned Torry. The other boys were giving more attention to their fishing again. Whistler was very much in earnest, and he spoke softly in his chum's ear: "You've seen him before.
Reeve, 'a pleasant little party of ten, only Henry has had a very bad fit of gout and could not join the shooters, or even the dinner-table some days: too provoking! They remained at Timsbury for a week, and then: January 10th. A pleasant party at Torry Hill, with Sir E. Head and Kit. Pemberton. Shooting in the snow, which was heavy. 18th. Sir C. Eastlake was buried.
"How about the old witch's prophecy?" asked Torry wickedly. "Suppose we should tell these garbies about them?" "Don't you dare!" cried Whistler. That very morning, after sick call, he was ordered to appear before Captain Trevor in the commander's office, and there found assembled Ensign MacMasters and several of the other officers of the ship with the commander.
He chose to lay aside his hat and wear a scarlet fez of her embroidering; but by superficial observers this was necessarily liable to be interpreted less as a compliment to Lucy than as a mark of coxcombry. "Guest is a great coxcomb," young Torry observed; "but then he is a privileged person in St.
"Oh, I gave 'em an earful," Whistler agreed, and puckered his lips again. "Come on and get in," ordered Torry impatiently. "Pa's got to use the car this afternoon. But he says we can have it to run over to Elmvale in, if we want." "Where are Frenchy and Ikey?" Whistler broke off in his tune again to ask. "Going to wait for us down on High Street and Seven Knott, too."
Whistler Morgan said no more, and he warned his friends to have no further talk upon the matter. After they got ashore, however, all four were much excited by the incident. "She was loaded to the Plimsoll mark when she passed us," Torry said. "What could she have done with her cargo in so short a time?" "I'd like to know," agreed Whistler thoughtfully.
I was glad to have him hear her address me in this intimate fashion. Torry always inspired in me a desire to shock him. He was trying to assure Alice that his only concern was to make her comfortable; he wished to save her from every annoyance and that sort of thing. "I shall help Alice to break them in, Torry," I said, lingering upon her name for his special edification.
As Frenchy said: "The smaller the boat, the bigger the wind seems. And a 'happy thought' like this chaser will kick up like a frisky colt in a dead calm, I do believe. By St. Patrick's piper that played the last snake out of Ireland! I'll be a week gittin' over this pitchin'. What d'you say, Mister Torrance, acushla?" "Don't blather me!" growled Torry.
Thence to Brahan. On the 31st, pic-nic to the Falls of Rogie, with Lord Blandford playing on the bugle. September 1st. To Raith. 7th, to Arniston. 10th, to Ancrum, Kirklands. 16th, to see Harriet Martineau at Ambleside. 18th. Home. September 22nd. Torry Hill. 23rd, excursion to Margate races, with Lord Kingsdown. Shooting at Torry Hill. Mr. Richardson died at Kirklands on October 4th.
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