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On reaching Jenkins's station, wishing to warn him of the vicinity of the black fellows, I looked about everywhere, but could not find him, and therefore came on that information might be sent to the police without delay, in order that they might proceed in search of the strangers and drive them away.
Anger as much at himself, for having ever given her up, as at Constance Channing; and still most at the Right Honourable the Earl of Carrick. I don't know what you will say to me for introducing you into the privacy of Mr. and Mrs. Jenkins's bed-chamber, but it is really necessary to do so. We cannot very well get on without it. A conjugal dispute had occurred that morning when Mrs.
I don't need to tell you about the farm, because you know all about that already. I never left Jenkins's heels one second, and he said I was much more of a nuisance than Thomas, because Thomas caught on to things naturally, and I asked questions all the time. I don't believe I'll see anything in Europe to beat that place.
Galloway rather fired up at the remark, taking it in a different light from that in which it was spoken. "Jenkins was at home at the time, confined to his bed; and, had he not been, I would answer for Jenkins's honesty as I would for my own. Can you see any possible solution to the mystery?" "A very possible one," was the dry answer.
"'Fraid I can't 'commodate ye; got to go down to widow Jenkins's with my wood. Gee, Buck! Haw, Barry!" said the farmer, as he started on. "Rich, why don't ye pull it up yourself," said an apprentice. "Better get an axe and chop it down, if it's such an eyesore to ye," said another. "Get a crowbar and dig it up. A little exercise will be good for ye," said a third.
People are always writing in advance to secure it, as they are to secure the Jenkins's gondolier, and as the gondola passes we see strange faces at the windows though it's ten to one we recognise them and the millionth artist coming forth with his traps at the water-gate. The poor little patient Dario is one of the most flourishing booths at the fair.
Nay, so poor did they become, that in 1740, the year after the smallpox had again devastated the island and the very monkeys had died of it, as the hapless creatures died of cholera in hundreds a few years since, and of yellow fever the year before last, sensibly diminishing their numbers near the towns let the conceit of human nature wince under the fact as it will, it cannot wince from under the fact, in 1740, I say the war between Spain and England that about Jenkins's ear forced them to send a curious petition to his Majesty of Spain; and to ask Would he be pleased to commiserate their situation?
Jenkins's horse no doubt trotted at a very brisk pace, as gentlemen's horses will of a frosty night, after their masters have been regaled with plentiful supplies of wine and ale. I remember in my bachelor days that my horses always trotted quicker after I had had a good dinner; the champagne used to communicate itself to them somehow, and the claret get into their heels.
And we air goin' to make Bud bank all he gits cause he ain't so strong as the rest of us. He may need it some time. That's all the places the surplus went to. I guess I'll go outen the costumin' business now, 'cause I'll be startin' in with Mr. Derry soon." There was one little ominous cloud in the serene sky of Mrs. Jenkins's happiness.
The enemy's numbers had increased to five thousand, and still Jenkins's little force held on with dogged courage, and though it could not make an inch of way, it refused to concede one.
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