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48 TIIE SK#UTS-BOY.
te order a distinct number, #nd for th#t tesson .... Exe#se me!
but my rime will hOt permit me fo delay longer."
With these words, the captain descended the stairs, with
bearing of a man who knows the meaning of the four words,
"I-]:ere I ara toaster!" The lieutenant.colonel walked back fo
his room, trembling with rage and excitement, and round his
wife and daughter had, in the meantime, endeavoured to
arrange the state, room as comfortably as possible.
3Vithout speaking, the lieutenant-colonel flung himself on #
sofa, and with the fiat of his hand rubbed his knitted brow until
if became as red as the cherries which Amelia extended fo him
in a neat little basket, with the innocent words–
"Will you not refresh yourself, papa ? they are so juicy !"
"To refresh me ! why ?"
"It is so warm," replied Amelia; and, taking the finest
cherries, ruade them into a little bunch, fo show how truly she
spoke.
"Thank you, my child," said %he lieutenant-colonel, taking a
couple of them; but did so more fo comply with the will of his
lovely daughter, than because he was very fond of them. Then,
moving Amelia a little to one side, he turned toward his wife.
"That bear bas hot a spark of good-breeding in hha; I shall be
obliged now fo take a berth in the saloon."
"I-]:ere it will certainly be too close for us," replied Iris wife i
and in ber tone there lay–still more thaa in ber wordsM
applause for ber husband’s determination.
"Yes, convenience is near your hear#; but whaç my purse
will say fo if is quite another thing- but about %bat you care
very little."
"¥ou do me injustice! Only recollect how much I was
agains# this journey fo the bathing-place."
"This only shows your dulness. Whoever wants fo fish, does
hot remain af home and angle in the ioose-pond, ff he is hot a
goose himself."
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