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"From that day to this our fair has been called Goose Fair; and really, Master Pearson, I think you'll allow that there are some very pretty geese to be seen there." Master Pearson laughed at Jack's account, and at his notion of its importance. "Well, there are some fairs abroad which I have visited almost on as grand a scale.
"It is wonderful, Walker," he was saying, "positively wonderful, the way that boy of mine has gone ahead during the last three years. We heard from Pearson to-day. Pearson is the senior partner, you know, and my boy the junior Pearson and Denver the firm. Cunning old dog is Pearson, as cute and as greedy as a Rio shark.
She was a very nice, well-behaved girl, and unfortunately she had felt herself forced to leave her place because her mistress's husband was not at all a nice man. He had shown himself so far from nice that Pearson had been most unhappy, and Rose had been compelled to give notice, though she had no other situation in prospect and her mother was dependent on her. This was without doubt not Mr.
I know you said you had a reason, but are you sure it's a good one?" He waited for an answer but none came. Pearson was gazing out of the window. The captain looked at his watch and rose. "I guess I'll have to be goin'," he said. "It's after twelve now." His host swung around in his chair. "Sit down, Captain," he said.
Professor Pearson and his associates show us that "if fertility be correlated with anti-social hereditary characters, a population will inevitably degenerate." This degeneration has already begun.
The Dunns came frequently and seemed disposed to be friendly, but he kept out of their way as much as possible. Pearson he had not seen since the latter's call. This was a disappointment, for he fancied the young fellow and believed he should like him even better on closer acquaintance.
As Catharine spoke, her eyes were roaming about the room, in search of him for whose sake security was dear to her. Pearson made a silent appeal to the old man, nor did the latter shrink from the painful task assigned him.
"You used to know him, I think." "Don't remember, I'm sure. Yes, I do. Met you at the University Club, didn't I?" "Yes. I was formerly a member." "And let me present you to Mrs. Corcoran Dunn," went on the girl. "Mr. Pearson used to know father well." Mrs. Dunn inspected the visitor through her lorgnette, and condescended to admit that she was "delighted."
"You said, at your mother's, that you had never understood why the men on each side kept inquiring if the others had struck. The truth is, we had it all our own way below. And, as it proved, when our captain, Pearson, struck, most of his men were below. I know, that, in all the confusion and darkness and noise, I had no idea, aft on the main deck, that we were like to come off second best.
By this time all the men on the quarter and main-decks were killed or wounded. Notwithstanding this, so furious had been the fire of the Serapis, that at ten the enemy called for quarter; but on Captain Pearson hailing to inquire if they had struck, and no answer being given, he ordered the boarders away.
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