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Will entered his own chamber near at hand, doffed for ever the velveteen uniform of water-keeper, and brought from a drawer an old suit of corduroy. Next he counted his slight store of money, set his 'alarum' for four o'clock, and, fifteen minutes later, was in bed and asleep, the time then being a little after midnight. Clement Hicks paid an early visit to Will's home upon the following morning.
Logan confessed that he was not destitute of that accomplishment, and that he liked, of all things, to be by a darkling river, where you came across the night side of nature in the way of birds, beasts, and fishes. 'Mr. Logan can take very good care of himself, I am sure, said Lord Embleton, 'and Fenwick knows every inch of the water, and will go with him. Fenwick is the water-keeper, Mr.
He said not a word; then his eyes grew moist. "To think as he could have loved a daft fule like me so well as that! Me that never done nothin' no, not so much as to catch a dish of trout for un, now an' again, when he was here." "You couldn't, bein' water-keeper." "What matter for that? I ought to have poached for un, seein' the manner of man he was." He kept silence for a while, then burst out
They belittle a chap's best thoughts and acts till the time comes for luck to turn an' bring the fruit; then them as scoffed be the first to turn round smilin' an' handshaking and sayin', 'What did us say? Didn't us tell 'e so from the very beginning?" Away went the youthful water-keeper, inspired with the prospect of his contemplated flight.
Morgan, Head Water-keeper, Sandypark." She looked through his things, and found that he had taken nothing but his money, one suit of working clothes, and a red tie her present to him on his birthday during the previous month. All his other possessions remained in their usual places.
But, after he'd been along at Vitifer five years, I don't think a living soul felt anything but kindly to Ernest, and when it was rumoured that he'd got brave enough to go courting Sarah White from Postbridge, everybody wished him luck, including his uncles especially Amos himself; for Joe's younger brother was very friendly to the Postbridge Whites, and them who thought they knew, always said how he'd offered for Jenny White twenty-five years before and might very like have won her if she hadn't loved the water-keeper on East Dart better and married him instead.
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