The conflict was of short duration; for
Shotbolt was no match for his athletic antagonist. Later, when the Reverend Henry Dolby entered the Spurlock room, his wife and
daughter trailing amusedly behind him, and beheld the strained eagerness on the
two young faces, he smiled inwardly and indulgently. "
"You won't complain of the delay when I tell you what I've done," answered
Jack. "It is addressed to my
mother," he added, as his eye glanced rapidly over it, "and by my father. ‘You make a game with me, I think. "
Amazed at the boy's assurance, Wood left off boxing his ears for a moment, and,
looking at him steadfastly, said in a grave tone, "Jack, Jack, you'll come to be
hanged!"
"Better be hanged than hen-pecked," retorted the lad with a malicious grin. ‘But only think, Hilary,’ Lucy protested, evidently too involved in her theory
to waste time in scolding. But through the fault of that pig,
who dared to call himself Valade and masquerade in society under her birthright. Puffy blue curtains dressed every oakstained window. Miss Mary and me, and
Martha too sometimes. Ah! I
shall never forget the figure Jack cut on that occasion. “So, since when does a grown man have to sneak
behind the Laundromat to smoke a cigarette?” She asked
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