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I'll get what I can, although the notice is short, and the dook's nuptials, so to speak, at the door." "What!" said Miss Tredgold. "I beg your pardon again, ma'am, but my head aches and I'm a bit confused. I'm reading a most wonderful account of the wedding of the Dook of Mauleverer-Wolverhampton." "I never heard of him."
Deprived of his society the captain consoled himself with that of Edward Tredgold, a young man for whom he was beginning to entertain a strong partiality, and whose observations of Binchester folk, flavoured with a touch of good-natured malice, were a source of never-failing interest. "He is very wide-awake," he said to his niece. "There isn't much that escapes him."
Don't rush at me for a moment, girls. Don't hug me or do anything of that sort. Stand still and listen, listen, listen. I was rebellious, and I did wrong, and " "My darling," interrupted Miss Tredgold, "we know the whole story. We only want you to confess that you did wrong, and then never, never to allude to it again; for I see, Pauline, by your eyes that you mean to do right now."
Chalk's conscience by telling him that he had practically guessed the whole affair from the beginning. He listened with great interest a few days later when Mr. Tredgold, after considering audibly which island he should visit first, gave him the position of Bowers's Island and began to discuss coral reefs and volcanic action. They were now well in among the islands.
I got him to sign articles ship-shape and proper. Mr. Tredgold recommended him." "No, no," said that gentleman, hastily. "I asked you before he signed on with me," said the captain, pointing a stumpy forefinger at him. "I made a point of it, and you told me that you had never heard anything against him." "I don't call that a recommendation," said Mr. Tredgold.
I went with him to Tollminster and helped him choose. Your room gave me the most anxiety, I think." "My room?" said the girl, starting. "It's a dream in the best shades of pink and green," said Mr. Tredgold, modestly.
Now, as the findings of Tredgold and Karl Pearson and the British Eugenists so conclusively show, and as the infant mortality reports so thoroughly substantiate, a high rate of fecundity is always associated with the direst poverty, irresponsibility, mental defect, feeble-mindedness, and other transmissible taints.
Another copy was avoided, but only with great difficulty, owing to her criticism of Mr. Stobell's signature. It took the united and verbose efforts of Messrs. Chalk and Tredgold to assure her that it was in his usual style, and rather a good signature for him than otherwise. Miss Vickers, viewing it with her head on one side, asked whether he couldn't make his mark instead; a question which Mr.
"I couldn't understand him making all that fuss over a couple o' pounds," said Mr. Chalk, looking round. "He's very free, as a rule; too free." Mr. Tredgold, sitting grave and silent, made no reply to these charges, and the girl was the only one to notice a faint twitching at the corners of his mouth.
"My husband said that Captain Brisket is a very careful man." Edward Tredgold made no reply. He glanced first at three hats standing in a row on the sideboard, and then at the ladies as they came to the window, and gazed with innocent curiosity at the schooner. Even as they looked she drew slowly ahead, and a boat piled up with luggage, which had been lying the other side of her, became visible.
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