[Brownsmith’s Boy by George Manville Fenn]@TWC D-Link bookBrownsmith’s Boy CHAPTER TWENTY SEVEN 5/16
Load or two would do this good.
There's the ganger hollering after you." "Yes!" I cried, and I went towards where Mr Brownsmith was standing. "Look here, Grant," he said, looking very red in the face.
"Sir Francis has given me this to buy you a watch by and by.
He says you're too young to have one now, but I'm to buy it and keep it for you a year or two.
Five pounds." "I'm much obliged to him," I said rather dolefully; but I did not feel at all pleased, and Mr Solomon looked disappointed, and I'm afraid he thought I was rather a queer boy. At the end of the week I heard that Courtenay was better, but that he was to go with his brother down to the seaside, and to my great delight they went; and though I thought the lad might have said, "Thank you," to me for saving his life, I was so pleased to find he was going, that this troubled me very little, for it was as if a holiday time had just begun. The effects of my adventure soon passed away, and the days glided on most enjoyably.
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