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It was in keeping with what you have seen of me?" Dane's eyes twinkled. "I didn't want to, and I must admit that it isn't. Still, a good many of you quiet men are addicted to occasionally astonishing your friends, and I can't help a fancy that you could do that kind of thing as well as most folks, if it pleased you.
The dragoons fled to Edinburgh, and dashed up the hill to the castle; but the governor refused to admit them, and threatened to open his guns upon them as cowards who had deserted their colours.
If it were possible that her father had made away with her child on the one hand, could it be possible, on the other, that Lady Gourlay would withhold her resentment from the daughter of the man who had made her childless? But, no; her generous heart could not for a moment admit the former possibility.
"Only spare my white flannels, please. I'm saving those for the occasion when I can play the country gentleman in style." Upstairs he braced open the hall door of the storage-room. The open windows had cleared the air within but they were too high and too small to admit enough light to reach the far corners.
I'm sure you see that yourself." "I don't admit that I owe them anything," said Paul; "and at all events it is highly inconvenient to pay them now." "If your own sense of honour isn't enough," said Mr. Blinkhorn, "I must take the matter into my own hands. Let every boy who has any claim upon him tell me exactly what it is." One boy after another brought forward his claim.
"It had to do with Indians, who you say are not to be found in these forests. I could not help overhearing you, as I approached your camp." Wilton reddened and then his generous impulse and sense of truth came to his aid. "I'll admit that I'm careless and that my knowledge may be small!" he exclaimed. "But tell me the facts, Mr. Lennox.
"And what did he say? Have you got his letter?" "No; I haven't got his letter." "Did he admit that that mamma had done this?" Fanny hesitated: but her intelligence, which was of a simple kind, did not suggest to her an ingenious line of reply. "Well, I dare say he didn't. But that doesn't make any difference." "Was that what he and Uncle Merton quarrelled about?"
It was this choking of the natural channel which sent the great flood over our lawn, and, as we have seen, created such a hubbub in the hall. Of course all danger was now past. The roaring torrent soon forced its way into its own bed again, and all we had to do was to repair damages as well as we could, and make ourselves as comfortable for the night as circumstances would admit of.
The performance was not graceful, and the gentlemen present, who knew more about dancing skirt or otherwise than they cared to admit, pursed up the corners of their mouths and looked straight in front of them afraid to meet the eye of some person or persons undefined. But the best face there was that of Sir John Meredith. He was not bored, as were many of his juniors at least, he did not look it.
Lincoln's face broke into a slow smile, which made the eyes seem curiously child-like. "I thank you, my old friend," he said. "I don't admit I have your courage, for I haven't half of it. But if a man feels that he is only a pipe for Omnipotence to sound through, he is not so apt to worry. Besides, these last weeks God has been very good to me and I've been given a kind of assurance.
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