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She had to break the hold that Reggie had on her. You don't know what it was like, Wally. She had to break it or she could never have married Jimmy at all. It was a toss-up between them; and Jimmy won." "Is it going to be a toss-up between them all over again, d'you think?" I said. "No. It's going to be war to the knife.
"He's not corpulent," said Norah indignantly, whereat Jim, who personified leanness with breadth of shoulder, grinned even more widely than Wally, and patted her on the head as he passed with an armful of clothes, which he stowed into his wardrobe much as he might have dumped sacks of potatoes into a barn.
"I'm getting old and reverend," said Wally severely, "and it's up to you to treat me with respect, young Norah. Sixteen's an awful age to support with any cheerfulness." His brown face at the moment gave the impression of never having been serious during the sixteen years he lamented. "As for this ancient mariner" indicating Jim "you can see the signs of senile decay quite plainly!"
Wally lay asleep in a swivel chair, his fat body sagging and his head fallen sideways in such a way as to emphasize the plump folds of his double chin. His eyes opened. They took in his chief slowly. Then, in a small panic, he jumped to his feet. "Must 'a' been taking thirty winks," he explained. "Been up nights a good deal." "What doing?" demanded the Scotchman harshly.
Presently one of the labour leaders turned to Mary with a beaming eye. "Looks as though they'll have to draw lots," said he... "They are all standing up...!" The afternoon was well advanced when her callers left, and Mary had to make up her work as best she could. A violent thunder-storm had arisen, but in spite of the lightning she telephoned Helen. Wally was still improving.
"All right!" he growled reluctantly. "That's a promise," said Wally. "I'll see that you keep it." He looked over his shoulder. The stage was filled with gayly-colored dresses. The mutineers had returned to duty. "Well, I'll be getting along.
She had told the man that it was something about the regiment he wanted to know; told him, too, his method of answering "Yes" and "No," and to put his questions in such, a form that they could be so answered. The friend advanced to the bedside with clumsy caution. "Hello, Wally!" he said cheerfully. "They've pretty well chewed you up and spit you out again, 'aven't they?
Once, lying on her bed, with her face pressed into the pillow, trying not to see a lean head that beat on the ground, she heard a dull sound that rose to an angry shout from the men; and immediately the buggy drove away quickly, as Wally took Cecil away from Billabong. She only shivered, pressing her face harder.
"Come on we ought to go down to Cecil." "Hold on till I brush my hair," said Wally, attacking his disturbed locks, and settling his tie. "All right; lead on, Macduff!" "Ready, Nor.?" Norah hesitated. "I'm going to my room for something," she said. "I'll be after you in a few minutes, boys." She disappeared within her room, and the boys clattered downstairs.
Jill took the letter, and glanced at the writing. It was from Uncle Chris. She placed it on the axe over the fire-buckets for perusal later. "The man at the box-office gave it to me," said Wally, "when I looked in there to find out how much money there was in the house tonight. The sum was so small that he had to whisper it." "I'm afraid the piece isn't a success." "Nonsense! Of course it is!
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