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Coming into the harbor a while ago who d'y' s'pose was out in the stream with a lighter alongside his vessel? Who but Sam Hollis and the Withrow. Yes, and the gang putting ballast back in her." "No?" "Yes. And some one of them sees us going by in the dark. And we did go by, too!
Old Withrow sat by the ditch at the corner of the orchard, watching them with a feeble display of interest, while two or three of the children climbed and tumbled over him as if he were some inoffensive domestic animal.
I wish I hadn't 'a' been barefooted." Poor Melissa! Sterling remembered nothing at all about her except a certain unconsciously graceful turn she had given her brown ankle as she stood pressing her bare foot in the sand. On Sunday morning the Withrow establishment wore that air of inactivity which seems in some households intended to express a mild form of piety.
Nell didn't like my not noticing how glad she was feeling, I suppose, for all at once, as I was about to sugar another cup of coffee, she ran her hands through my hair and yanked till I couldn't pretend any longer. "There, now, with your mind off your stomach, perhaps you'll look up and converse when a lady deigns to notice you. How much money did Mr. Withrow lose on the race?"
Joe, but sometimes a man would think you were about ten year old. I tell you, Joe, I'm not too sure it's going to be Withrow. And if you don't see some driving on this one when next we get among the fish, then " But he didn't finish it, only clucked his tongue and went below. Clancy was right again.
And fishermen's pride was keeping sail on us and the Foster. Hollis tried to make it look that his staysail blew off, but we knew better a knife to the halyards did the work. It was after her big staysail was off and she making easier weather of it that the Withrow crossed the Lucy's bow for the first time in the race and took the lead. We all felt for Mr.
It was bang, bang, bang all the way to Canso, with Clancy swearing at Withrow and the Flamingo and Dave Warner and the girl in the case one after the other and sometimes all together. "Blast Withrow and that crazy fool Dave Warner, too. And why in the devil couldn't her folks stayed in Gloucester or in Halifax, at least.
Duncan, who couldn't seem to believe his eyes. We all felt for Wesley, too, who was desperately trying to hold the wind of the Withrow he had even rigged blocks to his jib sheets and led them to cleats clear aft to flatten his headsails yet more.
He had dropped in the same evening with a dozen roses, and had intimated that he had helped Miss Kendall make out her list. Mrs. Jarvis had been overjoyed, and now the day had come and Elizabeth was in some dismay as to how she was to get out of the predicament. "Miss Withrow, the president, sent me an invitation to come to a meeting in the church. Some missionary man is to give an address.
Miss Somers did not wish any one to come, and the nurse thought it wiser not to force her. Several women were held back by that, and turned with relief to Lenten opera. The opera, however, said little to Withrow at the best of times, and he was crazed by the notion of not seeing her before she achieved extinction.
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