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Some were hoisting up her cargo and placing it either on deck or in the after-cabin ready for trade, and others were fixing in a slave-deck fore and aft, while casks of water and bags of farina were being brought on board in large quantities. I was thankful to see Tom Tubbs in the boat which was to convey the wounded men on shore.
Tubbs would be extracted, if need be, by no delicate methods. But Mr. Tubbs's character possessed none of that unreasonable obstinacy which would make harsh measures necessary under such conditions. His countenance, as the illuminating conversation of the pirates had proceeded, lost the speckled appearance which had characterized it at the height of his terrors.
Presently Clarabel Ruggles came in, attired in an elaborate evening gown. Tubbs at once arose to his feet and, bowing very low, accepted her hand, which was held on high. Then the dudish student said something and offered the box of candy. "Oh, is this really for me!" those outside heard the young lady cry, the words coming through the partly open window.
Twice Wilford turned back to kiss his wife, feeling tempted once to tell her he was sorry for his jealousy and distrust, but such confession was hard for him and so he left it unsaid, looking back to the window against which Katy's face was pressed as she watched him going from her, but little guessing what would be ere she looked on him again. Tom Tubbs sat reading Chitty as usual when Mr.
They burrowed into their grim old hearts as Uncle Joe Tubbs grubbed into the mud for clams, and brought out treasures of shy affection. As soon as they reached the Tubbs farm-house the two women went off together to the kitchen, while the men sneaked toward the inlet. Mother didn't show her new hat as yet; that was in reserve to tantalize Mrs. Tubbs with the waiting.
Now, though Lew Flapp was much larger than most of the others, he was in the same class as Sam, and he had also entered this race, which boasted of ten contestants, including William Philander Tubbs. "You have got to win this, Lew," said Rockley. "It ought to be easy for you, with such long legs." "I mean to win and leave that Rover boy so far behind he'll feel sick," answered Flapp.
The opera was the least of her offenses, for she was not harboring pride and contriving how to be rid of 'Tilda Tubbs, as clever a girl as ever lived, hoping that if she found Wilford he would see her home, and so save 'Tilda the trouble?
After the pirates had eaten, the prisoners on the log were covered with a rifle and their hands untied, while Cookie, in a lugubrious silence made eloquent by his rolling eyes, passed around among us the remnants of the food. No one can be said to have eaten with appetite except Mr. Tubbs, who received his portion with wordy gratitude and devoured it with seeming gusto.
They talked and sang, and the boys told of the meeting with Tubbs and the joke played, and this set the girls almost in hysterics, for they were acquainted with the dude, and knew his peculiarities. When they arrived at the hotel the spread was almost ready for them, and by the time they had washed and brushed up all felt rather hungry.
"Excuse me, I meant a sergeantship." "No, I said " "Make it a second lieutenantship, then, Tubby. Anything to be friends, you know." "I said " "Oh, bother, if you want to be a major-general, go ahead. Nobody will stop you." "Hurrah, Major-General Tubbs!" cried Sam. "That sounds well, doesn't it, fellows?" "We'll have to present him with a tin-plated sword," came from one of the crowd.
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