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In the bed of the Van Diemen we saw some well constructed huts of the natives; they were made of branches arched over in the form of a bird-cage, and thatched with grass and the bark of the drooping tea-tree. The place where we encamped had been frequently used by the natives for the same purpose.
I suppose you have no business with me?" "Not to-day," Tinman replied. Van Diemen strode round the drawing-room with his hands in his pockets. "There's a disparity of ages," he said, abruptly, as if desirous to pour out his lesson while he remembered it. "A man upwards of forty marries a girl under twenty, he's over sixty before she's forty; he's decaying when she's only mellow.
This Cape, as I have observed before, is the northermost extremity of this country, and the eastermost point of a peninsula, which runs out N.W. and N.W. by N. seventeen or eighteen leagues, and of which Cape Maria Van Diemen is the westermost point.
They had never had any fears before Van Diemen arrived, and caused them to give thrice their ordinary number of dinners to guests per annum.
The scoundrel talked of Horse Guards and telegraph wires." "Scoundrel, but more ninny," said Herbert, full of his contempt. "Dare him to do his worst. The General tells me they 'd be glad to overlook it at the Guards, even if they had all the facts. Branding 's out of the question." "I swear it was done in my time," cried Van Diemen, all on fire. "It's out of the question.
Van Diemen had no idea of calamity being at work on land when he sat down to breakfast. He told Herbert that he had prayed for poor fellows at sea last night.
"But you're glad to be up Monday morning?" "It feels cheerfuller in the shop." "And carpentering's your joy?" "I think I may say so." Van Diemen slapped his thigh. "There's life in Old England yet!" Crickledon eyed him as he walked away to the beach to look for his daughter, and conceived that there was a touch of the soldier in him.
But not before the. world, in one tempestuous glimpse, had caught sight of the Court suit. Perfect gravity greeted him from the crowd. "Safe, old Mart! and glad to be able to say it," said Van Diemen. "We are so happy," said Annette. "House, furniture, property, everything I possess!" ejaculated Tinman, shivering. "Fiddle, man; you want some hot breakfast in you. Your sister has gone on to Elba.
"It must be like the contact of two hostile chemical elements." Annette walked faster. They descended from the shingle to the scant-bladed grass-sweep running round the salted town-refuse on toward Elba. Van Diemen sniffed, ejaculating, "I'll be best man with Mart Tinman about this business! You'll stop with us, Mr. what's your Christian name? Stop with us as long as you like. Old friends for me!
Van Diemen at last backed Tinman's hospitable intent, and, to Fellingham's astonishment, he found that he had been supposed by these two men to be bashfully retreating from a seductive offer all the time that his tricks of fence and transpiercings of one of them had been marvels of skill. Tinman pushed the glass into his hand. "You have spilt some," said Fellingham.
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