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He was beyond further astonishment, and when Mrs. Truefitt entered the room with a laudable attempt to twist her features into an expression of surprise, he scarcely noticed her. "It's my Joe," said Mrs. Porter, simply. "Good gracious!" said Mrs. Truefitt. "Well, you've got him now; take care he doesn't run away from you again." "I'll look after that, ma'am," said Mrs.
Truefitt turned to her daughter and whispered. It might have been merely the effect of a guilty conscience, but the visitor thought that he caught the word "policeman." "I'm just going as far as the corner," said Mrs. Truefitt, rising, and crossing hastily to the door. The young man nodded affectionately and sat in doubtful consideration as the front door closed behind her.
We will stand further in. I delight in thus bearding them in their very harbours." A shot, however, from the fort, which flew between the masts, showed him that he had stood close enough in. The frigate wore round, and did what Job Truefitt observed she wasn't often apt to do showed her stern to the enemy. It was surprising that she was not pursued.
"Would you like me to stay?" he asked. "I?" said Miss Truefitt, tossing her head. "No, I don't want you. Besides, you're frightened." Mr. Catesby turned, and with a firm step made his way back to the room; Prudence, with a half-smile, took a chair near the door and regarded her prisoner with unholy triumph.
It was the fall of the remainder of the foremast, and the breaking up of the fore part of the ship. It was a strong hint to the English party to hasten whatever they might undertake. "You'll let me go, Mr Calder?" said Morton again. He and Job Truefitt had secured some light line to the cask, which had just been hauled up.
"You had better go," said Prudence, severely; "kindness is thrown away upon you. I ought to have let you be punished." "You are too good and kind," said the other, drifting by easy stages into the parlour. Miss Truefitt made no reply, but following him into the room seated herself in an easy-chair and sat coldly watchful. "How do you know what I am?" she inquired.
He gave his instructions to Morton, therefore, and directed him to take two men as a body-guard, and to set off at once. Ronald selected Truefitt and Doull, the first for his steadiness and the other for his cool courage, and having procured a guide and a horse, and two wretched mules which had been too decrepit for the enemy to carry off, proceeded on his mission.
Hartrick, hearing some of her naughtiest words, said in an icy tone that Miss Truefitt had sent a maid for Stephanotie; and a few moments afterward the little party broke up. As soon as the strange girls had departed, Mrs. Hartrick turned immediately to Molly. "I am shocked at your conduct," she said.
Truefitt was the widow of a master-lighterman, and that her son, Fred Truefitt, after an absence of seven years in New Zealand, was now on his way home. He finished his glass slowly and, the landlord departing to attend to another customer, made his way into the street again. He walked along slowly, picturing as he went the home-corning of the long-absent son.
Miss Truefitt uttered a deep sigh. "What are you sighing for, Aunt Vi?" "Nothing, dear; only please don't offer me a bon-bon. The mere sight of those boxes gives me a feeling of nausea." "But you have not tried the crystallized figs," cried Stephanotie; "they are wonderfully good; and if you feel nausea a peppermint-drop will set you right.
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