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"'I know one such,' 'sez I. Sir William now rose from the table and went to an armchair at the open window, upon the seat or ledge of which stood a jar of tobacco, some clay pipes, and a little machine for firing a match dipped in brimstone, a very ingenious contrivance as old as the days of the second Charles: namely, a little pistol-shaped fire-maker whose trigger struck a full and brilliant spark from the flint and kindled the tinder. He filled his pipe and lighted it, and sat in conversation with his son, in whom the particular humour or mood would have been extremely hard to settle by the most sagacious of critical observers. He was speedy in answering his father, and his language did not show much abstraction of mind; but even the Admiral noticed that there was an undercurrent of thought in his son which was pursuing a very different course from the stream as it appeared on the surface. "What on earth have you been reading in your day about madness to give you such extraordinary ideas?" said Captain Acton..
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Just then the door was opened, and the footman announced "Admiral Sir William Lawrence." He bowed as though to the applause of an audience, and looked the better pleased with Mr Lawrence for having heard him. "Here, you Willium," she commanded, "you drink these here salts and not a word out o' you, or I'll tan you good and plenty." "When this settlement growed big enough fer a school, young Frank, who had a school teacher's di-ploma, offered to teach it. His farm was pretty well cleared by this time, so he got a man named Henry Burke to work it fer him an' Burke's wife to keep house. That was five years ago, an' Frank has taught the Valley School ever since, till now.".
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