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Updated: June 18, 2025
"Yes, I figger that's about the size of it. I don't know what Matt was doin' over around here this evenin'; I know I didn't send for him." "Joan spoke of him this afternoon. From what she said, I thought he must be something of a specimen. What kind of a looking duck is he?" "Matt's a mixture of a goriller and a goose egg.
Then, later, the boy came to Baldy; and there were blissful periods when he would lie with his head on Ben's lap; when the repressed enmity of the haughty Tolmans, the cold indifference of the magnificent McMillan, and even Matt's eternal vigilance were forgotten.
Captain Noah Kendall, Matt's predecessor on the Retriever, had been raised on clipper ships and as he grew old had allowed himself the luxury of a third mate, to which arrangement Cappy Ricks, having a certain affection for Captain Noah, had never made any objection; but something whispered to Matt Peasley that the quickest route to Cappy's heart would be via a short payroll, so he concluded to dispense with a third mate and tack ten dollars a month extra on the pay-check of the excellent Murphy.
His silence spoke well for the first lessons of self-control. Apple felt so keenly Matt's injustice to Glen that the cordiality which was his natural offering to good and bad alike was completely choked. But another splash caused all three to turn their looks again to the entrance and in a moment another head bobbed in sight. It was Chick-chick this time. "'Lo, fellers!" he called out cheerfully.
"But of course I can't tell." "They trust him so implicitly," said Matt. "I know," said the doctor. "And I know that he's entirely devoted to them. The fact is, Putney's a very dear friend of mine." "Oh, excuse me " "No, no!" The doctor stayed Matt's apologies. "I understand just what you mean. He disliked their father very much.
After all, Master Tom, it is not the very exact finale which we should have expected to your Republicanism of the last three or four years, to find you a respectable married man, holding a permanent appointment! Matt's marriage, too, stands pre-eminent among the items of family news. What blind judges, sometimes, the most attached brothers are of each other!
As he realized this, a look of devilish cunning crept into the animal face of Gibbs, and he maneuvered carefully to bring his enemy's back toward the wagon. Catching a look from his friend, over Young Matt's shoulder, the man in the wagon slipped quickly to the ground, and Sammy saw with horror a naked knife in his hand. She glanced toward Ollie appealingly, but that gentleman was helpless.
All she knew, poor girl, was that for the first time in her life she was not herself; and as she responded to Matt's warm greeting, she felt she was not the wife, nor the woman, who but a few weeks ago had so affectionately farewelled him, and who but a few moments ago so longed for his return.
I hear too by this mail of Matt's engagement, which suggests many thoughts. I own that Matt is one of the very last men in the world whom I can fancy happily married or rather happy in matrimony.
That was bad. It had been Matt's experience that, as a usual thing, but two things conduce to bring about nervous prostration overwork and worry; and in Morrow's case it must be worry, for Kelton did all the work! Kelton, too, looked haggard and drawn.
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