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Scrivens young Pillin had said! But Crow & Donkin, not Scriven & Coles, were old Heythorp's solicitors. What could that mean, save that the old man wanted to cover the tracks of a secret commission, and had handled the matter through solicitors who did not know the state of his affairs! But why Pillin's solicitors? With this sale just going through, it must look deuced fishy to them too.
Jimmy's chest heaved. Donkin, looking away, bent his ear to Jimmy's lips, and heard a sound like the rustle of a single dry leaf driven along the smooth sand of a beach. It shaped itself. "Light... the lamp... and... go," breathed out Wait. Donkin, instinctively, glanced over his shoulder at the brilliant flame; then, still looking away, felt under the pillow for a key.
Donkin put his hand quickly to his mouth and coughed. "Um-m!" said he pleasantly. "Super hard on you this morning Hoogan?" And with the words Toddles' heart went out to the big dispatcher: "Hoogan" and a man-to-man tone. "No," said Toddles cordially. "Say, I thought you were on the night trick." "Double-shift short-handed," replied Donkin. "Come from New York, don't you?" "Yes," said Toddles.
Bryan Donkin was also associated with Maudslay and Barton on the subject of the national standard of the yard measure. But perhaps Mr. Chantrey was the most attractive visitor at the private workshop.
He seemed out of breath, was grave, full of business. He went straight to the desk, talked with animation to the clerk, who thought him an intelligent man. They discussed the account, dropping h's against one another as if for a wager very friendly. Captain Allistoun paid. "I give you a bad discharge," he said, quietly. Donkin raised his voice: "I don't want your bloomin' discharge keep it.
There were exclamations of surprise, triumph, indignation. The dark group of men swung across the light. "What for?" "Told you so..." "Bloomin' shame..." "We've got to say somethink about that," screeched Donkin from the rear. "Never mind, Jim we will see you righted," cried several together. An elderly seaman stepped to the front.
Victor, indeed, seeing the force stationed there to be a small one; and that, from the confusion among the Spaniards on the British right, the moment was very favourable; had ordered one division to attack, another to move to its support, while a third was to engage the German division posted on the plain to the right of the hill, and thus prevent succour being sent to Donkin.
'Please, sir, I'm come to speak to you about Daniel Robson, of Haytersbank Farm. 'Daniel Robson? said Mr. Donkin, after a short pause, to try and compel Philip into speed in his story. 'Yes, sir. He's been taken up on account of this affair, sir, about the press-gang on Saturday night. 'To be sure! I thought I knew the name. And Mr.
His little pen-making machine for readily making quill pens long continued in use, until driven out by the invention of the steel pen; but his patent for making paper by machinery, though ingenious, like everything he did, does not seem to have been adopted, the inventions of Fourdrinier and Donkin in this direction having shortly superseded all others.
"Vy d'yer whisper?" asked Donkin with interest, "can't yer speak up?" Jimmy looked annoyed and said nothing for a while; then in a lifeless, unringing voice: "Why should I shout? You ain't deaf that I know." "Oh! I can 'ear right enough," answered Donkin in a low tone, and looked down. He was thinking sadly of going out when Jimmy spoke again.
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