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From that afternoon Todd had no excuse for loafing away any halfer. His services as referee were in demand, not merely as a matter of utility, but of preference. Taylor, who had watched rather anxiously Todd's progress, smiled easily at the success of his understudy. "I say," said Bourne to me, "what's come over Todd? Blessed if that usual ass didn't handle the Fifth v.
They were with their friend, the gardener, and, claiming their acquaintance as fellow-passengers, we made favor with him to see the house. The housekeeper, or some understudy of hers, who received us, said the family were away, but she let us follow her through.
I've forgotten it, just this moment, Mr. Potter, but I've got it. I've got it right here." He began frantically to turn out the contents of his pockets. "It's in my memorandum book, if I could only find " "The devil, the devil!" shouted Potter. "A fine understudy you've got for us!
You remember how, as Wilkins was given to late dinners and too much ale, he made me understudy his Mephisto, and if the piece had run more'n two weeks, I'd probably had a chance to play it. Well, Hexter said, as everything was ready to put on the piece, if I thought I was up in the part, he'd let me try it. So we went to Renshaw's room and got the part and here it is."
Except that he was black as a coal, save for the whites of his eyes and his gleaming teeth, he seemed a grotesque understudy of the stockman moleskins, not too clean and rubbed and frayed in places, fastened up with a strap; faded Crimean shirt exposing a wealed and tattooed breast; old felt hat not a cabbage tree with a pipe stuck in its greasy band; an ancient red silk handkerchief with ragged edges, where whip crackers had been torn off, round his neck, and a short axe slipped among a few old pouches into the strap at his waist.
"My dear Miss Keenan: Captain Murphy arrived on the Timaru, with the information that he had taken a chance and left our affairs in the laps of the gods and the capable hands of his understudy. It has been pretty tough sledding waiting for the next Australian steamer, but, thank God! she made port yesterday and your report of the success of your mission is before me. I thank you.
Accordingly, I am merely taking a walk, while I cultivate my muse." "And I'm to be the muse's understudy?" Olive laughed. "Thank you, I'm otherwise engaged." "You looked it, when I met you. What's doing?" "Household economics. I'm going the rounds of the basement bargain counters, hunting dish towelling." "What's the use?" "To dry the dishes," Olive told him literally.
"Vacation ain't agreed with her, nuther," pondered Amarilly perplexedly. She turned her gaze again to John, who was sitting back of the choir, while his "understudy" conducted the service. His face was shaded by his hand, but Amarilly's gimlet glance noted that he frequently sent a fleeting, troubled look toward the King pew.
"It must be at least two days," he said, and he went off to telephone, promising to come back as soon as he could. He did return, later in the evening, with a new remedy of which he said he had heard from a fellow doctor. "What did Mr. Cross say?" Mr. DeVere asked eagerly. "I have good news for you. He agreed to use an understudy for two days.
But his greatest service to his order was in thoroughly establishing it in the public confidence. He was succeeded by William G. Lee, who had served in many subordinate offices in local lodges before he had been chosen First Vice-Grand Master in 1895. For fifteen years he was a faithful understudy to Morrissey whose policy he has continued in a characteristically fearless and thoroughgoing manner.
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