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"The pastrycook's man is looking after all that, Jane," said Boaler's voice. "I've been up outside the droring-room all this time, lookin' at the games goin' on in there. It's as good as a play to see the way as master is a unbendin' of himself, and such a out and out stiff-un as he used to be, too! But it ain't what I like to see in a respectable house. I'm glad I give warning.
We'll have discipline, lads, to the end if you please. We'll meet here on Saturday: and when you've done your unbendin' maybe I'll start doin' mine." He took up the musical box, tucked it under his arm, and marched out. He perspired under his absurdly superfluous burden.
"Well, we was obliged to give it up at last; and as we was haulin' in the line and unbendin' the hook I heard the chief mate say to the skipper: "`That settles poor Hobbs' hash, anyhow! "`How d'ye mean? says the skipper, short and angry-like. "`Why, says the mate, `I means that Hobbs won't get better, and that shark knows it. He's just waitin' for him!
"The lad's just as unbendin' as his father," pursued Mrs. Sennacherib, "though in a lighter-hearted sort of a way. He's as gay as the lark, our Snac is, even i' the face o' trouble, but there's no more hope o' movin' him than theer'd be o' liftin' the parish church and carryin' it to market.
"Well, of course, you haven't needed her," the gambler reminded her, "but she'll be droppin' in before long, now Bob McGraw's a stranger in town, an' entitled to the kindly services o' the community as a whole, so Mrs. P. can show up at the Hat Ranch under those conditions without unbendin' her dignity." "I suppose she is kind enough in her way," Donna began, "but " "You don't like her way, eh?"
The hostess, stooping over her, untied her bonnet-strings as if she had been a child, helped her to remove her mantle, and then ushered her into a sitting-room which looked upon a well-cultivated garden. "I wouldn't say," pursued the hostess, "as I'd got a bad husband not for the world. But he's that hard and unbendin' both i' little things an' big uns.
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