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Joel went into the house smiling softly. "I had to be almost savage with the fellow, Barbara. The anxious seat's no place fer a chap like him; it'd wear him to a toothpick in a week." "But she might get here before that, you know, Joel." "I'll fix that with the men at the depot. If she comes sooner we'll have her out here in a hurry. Wish to goodness she would."
"Well, one of them, old Foster the maltster, came to your husband and and told him they didn't like the Crusade and that it wouldn't do." He paused, glanced at May for an instant, and ended, "The seat's not safe, you know, and and it wants money to fight it." A silence of some few minutes followed. Dick fidgeted with his hat, while May looked out of the window on to the river.
"Was there ever such a night?" said little Julia. "Shall we ever be so happy again?" Jim could not see her clearly, but he saw her bright, soft eyes in the gloom, the shimmer of her loosened hair, the little white-clad figure in the seat's wide curve, and the crossed slim ankles. He put his arm about her, and she rested her head on his shoulder. "Don't say that, darling!" said Jim.
But a seat's a seat, and though I appreciate your Quixotic offer, I don't see why we should risk it. It's up to you to make good. It's more in your own interest that I'm speaking now. Can you go through with it?" Paul, with his unconquerable instinct for the dramatic, hauled out the little cornelian heart at the end of his watch-chain. "My dear fellow," said he. "Do you see that?
He had even seen one Airedale flung bodily from a car's rear seat at that curve, and out into the roadway; where a close-following motor had run over and killed it. This collie, doubtless, had had such a fall; and, unseen by the front seat's occupants, had struck ground with terrific force a force that had sent him whirling through mud and grease into the ditch, with a broken front leg.
"Nash, I recommend you the asparagus-tips. Mother, he's my best friend do look after him." "I've an impression I've breakfasted I'm not sure," Nash smiled. "With those beautiful ladies? Try again you'll find out." "The money can be managed; the expenses are very small and the seat's certain," Lady Agnes pursued, not apparently heeding her son's injunction in respect to Nash.
"Yes; I persuaded him," Peg said laconically. She was fully aware that Faith was close beside her, and it gave her a fierce sort of joy to know that the girl's eyes were turned upon her with the faintest shadow of suspicion in them. When Forrester appeared Peg called to him quickly. "Come and sit next to me, Mr. Forrester. The back seat's the most comfortable."
Philip saw from the window that a gentleman had put her upon the car just as it was starting. In a few moments the conductor entered, and without waiting an explanation, said roughly to the lady, "Now you can't sit there. That seat's taken. Go into the other car."
"Nothing doing up here; a deal too much doing somewhere else. Attley's seat's in the market." "Well?" "And you ought to have been down there about it three or four days ago. Of course you must step into it." "Of course I shan't," returned Sir Francis. "To represent West Lynne will not suit me." "Not suit you? West Lynne! Why, of all places, it is most suitable. It's close to your own property."
But I doubt if that other young man could say anything for himself, who, when a pale, trembling woman was about to drop into the vacant place at his side, stretched his arm across it with, "This seat's engaged," till a robust young fellow, his friend, appeared, and took it and kept it all the way out from Boston.
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