Scuddy

Before very long the gentle Scuddy was as happy as a prisoner can expect to be, in his comfortable quarters at Beutin.

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For he added the result of his own inquiries to the statement of M. Jalais, and from these it was clear that poor Scuddy had set forth alone in a rickety boat, ill found and ill fitted to meet even moderate weather in the open

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Scuddy had slipped away, as lightly as a shadow, and keeping in a mossy trough, had gained another shelter.

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“Oh, Captain Scuddy,” cried the head boy, grinning wisely, though he might have made just the same blunder himself;

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Captain Scuddy deserved a new hat for this — though very few

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Scudamore was dealing with, had recovered from the querimonies of those two sons of Ovid, on the further side of Ister, and were having a good laugh at the face of “Captain Scuddy,” as they called their beloved preceptor.

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But with the gentle Scuddy, as the boys at school had called him, the process of hardening was beneficial, as it is with pure gold, which cannot stand the wear and tear of the human race until it has been reduced by them at least to the mark of their twenty carats.

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And the gentle Scuddy blushed at his clumsiness, and hoped that she would understand the difference.

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“You should have been born in France,” he said, one bright November morning, when they sat more comfortable than they had any right to be, upon the very same seat where the honest but hapless Captain Scuddy had tried to venture to lisp his love;

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Then, as soon as the night was dark and quiet, and the mighty host for leagues and leagues launched into the realms of slumber, springing with both feet well together, as he sprang from the tub at Stonnington, Scuddy laid hold of the iron bars which spanned the window vertically, opened the lattice softly, and peeped out in quest of sentinels.

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