Joshua Marvel, Volumen2

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Tinsley Brothers, 1871
 

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Página 50 - Joshua, rather surprised at his father s silence. " Well, Josh ! " replied Mr. Marvel. " Do you see this ? " asked Joshua, with his arm round Ellen's waist. Ellen, blushing rosy red, looked shyly at Mr. Marvel ; but he looked stolidly at her in return. " Yes, I see it, Josh,
Página 50 - ' No, no, father,' interrupted Joshua ; ' I made a mistake. Ellen and I thought ' ' Ellen and you thought,' repeated Mr. Marvel. ' That if you were agreeable ' continued Joshua. ' That if I was agreeable,
Página 51 - I made a mistake. Ellen and I thought — ' ' Ellen and you thought,' repeated Mr. Marvel. 'That if you were agreeable — ' continued Joshua. ' That if I was agreeable,' repeated Mr. Marvel. ' And if you would please to give your consent—' said Joshua, purposely prolonging his preamble. ' And if I would be pleased to give my consent,' repeated Mr. Marvel with a slight chuckle of satisfaction. ' That, as we love each other very much, we would like to get married.
Página 53 - It was only by a strong effort of will that he kept himself from fainting. ' My strength is deserting me,' he muttered, his breath coming thick and fast ; ' scarcely a day passes but this weakness comes upon me.
Página 51 - AsI said to mother the other night, when we was talking the matter over — ah, you may stare ; but we knew all about it long ago. Didn't we, mother ? Well, as I was saying to mother the other night, if I was a young man, and mother wasn't in the way, I'd marry her myself ; and you might go a-whistling. Shiver my timbers, my lass !' he cried, breaking through the trammels of woodturning, and becoming suddenly nautical, 'come and give me a kiss.
Página 50 - I father! look here !' Mrs. Marvel rose, all of a tremble, and laid her hand upon Ellen's head, and kissed the young lovers. But Mr. Marvel behaved quite differently. He cast one quick satisfied look at the two youngsters; and then he turned from them, and continued smoking as if nothing unusual had occurred. ' Well, father !' exclaimed Joshua, rather surprised at his father's silence. ' Well, Josh !' replied Mr. Marvel. ' Do you see this ?' asked Joshua, with his arm round Ellen's waist. Ellen,...
Página 25 - Say murder, master,' said the Lascar, seeing that Mr. Fewster hesitated to speak plainly. ' I don 't mind.' ' If it should turn out to be that, have you considered that you are in danger ?' ' I haven't thought of it, master, and that's a fact. But if I am in danger, so are you.
Página 2 - It is more than four years ago,' said George Marvel, ' that one night as we were sitting round the fire, as it might be now, Josh said all of a sudden, " I should like to go to sea." Those were the very words he said — " I should like to go to sea." And it came so sudden -like, that mother there began to cry. " So you want to be a sailor, Josh ?" I asked. " Yes," he answered ; " a sailor first, and then a captain.
Página 9 - Is rounded with a sleep,' he paused, and a deep silence fell upon the room, a silence that was broken by Dan exclaiming, ' Hark ! a knock at the door !' Was it the magnetism of love that caused their hearts to flutter with joy — that caused Mrs. Marvel to rise tremblingly and say that she would go and open the door? But her limbs failed her, and Minnie, crying, ' I will go !
Página 10 - Who is there?' and heard her open the door. Almost at the same moment they heard a cry of joy, followed immediately by a sharp cry of pain. They ran upstairs and saw Minnie kneeling in the snow, supporting on her bosom the head of a man dressed in sailor-fashion, and pressing her lips to his neck, from which the blood was flowing. The pure snow was crimson-stained ; and Mrs. Marvel, in an agony of fear falling on her knees by Minnie's side, looked into the face of the wounded man, and recognised...

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