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"I know him I met him at Mr. Leyton's. He has already talked of Mr. Rushbrook, but," she added, avoiding any conclusion, with a pretty pout, "I'd like to have the opinion of others. Yours, now, I fancy would be quite independent." "You stick to what Jack Somers has said, good or bad, and you won't be far wrong," he said assuringly.
We told him and most assuringly he replied, "Sounds like foot valve trouble. I'll be right over soon as I finish supper." And he was as good as his word. Half an hour later he was listening to a pump that could not lure water from well to tank. Then he went down the well and, without aid, came up with the supply pipe. "Here's your trouble. Leather of the foot valve's gone. I'll just cut another."
Time had only deepened the noble lines of his countenance, and added dignity to his figure and bearing. He looked happy, too, like a man upon whom the future smiles assuringly. The fancy flashed across Ida's mind that he was engaged to be married, and that he meant to announce the fact to his family to-day, perhaps, and to introduce the lady.
Triple content concentrates in mute benediction upon curly head of baby tramp, dreaming unspeakable mysteries upon the arm of Esther. The appointed meeting takes place. Alice still is nervous. Though her uncle had spoken most assuringly, she shrinks from the ordeal. Only through repeated assurances, much prompting, and many questions upon the part of Sir Donald is the strange story told.
"You're good 'nough for me and Happy Pete," she asserted, "and Lafe'll let you be his little boy too." The blind child gasped, and the girl continued assuringly, "Peg'll love you, too. She couldn't help it." "Peg?" queried Bobbie. "Oh, she's Lafe's wife. Happy Pete and me stay in her house." The blind eyes flashed with sudden hope. "Mebbe she'll love me a little! Will she?" "I hope so.
She stopped; she seemed about to run away. But the soldier doffed his little blue cap and looked amiable. "You live here, I presume?" he said. "Yes," she answered. "Well, we are obliged to camp here for the night, and as we've got two wounded men with us I don't suppose you'd mind if we put them in the barn." "In in the barn?" He became aware that she was agitated. He smiled assuringly.
Cass rose and frowned savagely on his comrades. "No! no!" cried a dozen voices, assuringly. "It's all right! Honest Injun! True as gospel! No joke, Cass!" "Here's the paper, Sacramento 'Union' of yesterday. Look for yourself," said Drummond, handing him the well-worn journal. "And you see," he added, "how darned lucky you are.
Caton, Miss Lee did not desert Jerry. As they walked away from the office, she whispered assuringly to Jerry: "Dr. Caton thinks you had better go into the Third Form room for a term, at least." Accordingly she led her into one of the smaller study rooms. And there was Gyp smiling and beckoning her to an empty desk beside her.
And it was soon very evident that she spoke the truth; for when her property was deposited on the pavement, it consisted of a trunk about eighteen inches long, and nothing more. 'O that's all! said Captain Loveday, surprised. 'That's all, said the young woman assuringly. 'I didn't want to give trouble, you know, and what I have besides I have left at my aunt's.
Not knowing what to make of such a shower of spools and needles, scissors, buttons, and wearing apparel, old Bruin dropped on all fours and ambled out of the doorway just as Lloyd caught up the water pitcher. A panting little coloured boy met him on the stairs and caught up the rope trailing behind him. "He won't hurt you, Miss Lloyd," he called, assuringly.
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