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Come to your waiting knight!" Kit's voice was very wheedlesome, and Patty was moved to encourage him a little. "Do you know, I almost think that maybe possibly perhaps, I WILL go." "Really? Oh, Poppycheek, I'm SO glad! I do want to see My Girl!" "YOUR girl, indeed!" "Yes; mine by right of discovery." "But you haven't discovered me yet." "But I will, on Friday night. You'll TRULY come, WON'T you?"
Kit nodded, swayed his strength and weight tentatively on the steering oar, and headed the boat for the plunge. Several minutes later, half-swamped and lying against the bank in the eddy below the White Horse, Shorty spat out a mouthful of tobacco juice and shook Kit's hand. "Meat! Meat!" Shorty chanted. "We eat it raw! We eat it alive!" At the top of the bank they met Breck.
He exhibited the Oxford manner at times rather noticeably. Kit loved it. Till I saw them together I had thought Kit's accent and her incessant mangling of the King's English would have jarred upon Malim. But I soon found that I was wrong. He did not appear to notice.
What should he do? He could try no more. He was proscribed, and the letters of his ban were writ large throughout the town, where all who ran might read. For a while he wandered aimlessly about and then turned dejectedly homeward. His mother had not yet come. "Did you get a job?" was Kit's first question. "No," he answered bitterly, "no one wants me now." "No one wants you?
He and the president were friends and this counted for much. The old Buccaneer had a sentimental vein. Then Kit's thoughts strayed and he wondered what Peter was doing in the north country dale. Kit had prospered since he joined Adam and the latter had hinted that he might be rich, but he was tired of intrigue and excitement and the glare of the South.
She could tell just exactly the mood the mother bird was in when she wrote, just how her conscience pricked her for having been a party to Kit's plan. "Of course, while the Dean's letter was very nice, still I am sure he felt 'put upon, as Cousin Roxy would say. I am ever so sorry that we did not write sooner, and tell them that you were coming.
There'll be the most deplorable row if I'm not looked after properly." "Well, I'm hanged!" whispered Doe. "I'm going to see who the merchant is." He disappeared; and was back in ten seconds, muttering, "Good Lord, Rupert, it's a middle-aged major with a monocle; and its kit's marked 'Hardy."
Clo might have wasted twice the time in her search, had she not stepped on it. "I'll make the best of a bad bargain," she promised herself. "If I must go to Kit's room, I won't throw away a single second." She fastened Peterson's door on the outside, and fitted the key she had found, into the lock of the door at the left, in front of which stood the brown trunk.
Sir Kit's own man was tired, but the groom set him a-talking at last, and we had it all out before ever I closed my eyes that night. The bride might well be a great fortune she was a JEWISH by all accounts, who are famous for their great riches.
I know I have no right to ask this, but I would so love to meet one so sympathetic and appreciative of the great art which is the ideal of my life. With many, many thanks for your welcome letter, I am, Very sincerely yours, CHRISTOPHER CAMERON." "I knew he'd do it!" cried Patty. "I knew he'd fall for that flattery! Kit's a perfect dear, but he IS vain of his music, and I don't blame him.
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