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I'll wait awhile, anyhow. I'll lose nothing by waiting." Meanwhile, Maud was walking rapidly home with Sam. She was excited and perplexed, and did not care to answer Sam's rather heavy pleasantries over the evening's performance. He ridiculed the spirit-lights, the voices, and the jugglery, without provoking a reply, and at last he said: "Well, what do you think of his advising the girls to pop?
Do you know, I've been thinking about a little matter in which you are concerned? Why don't you have your interests looked after in your home town?" "My uncle? Well, I am afraid that's a lost cause. I went to the family lawyer when I returned from my army service, and he charged me five dollars for advising me to let the matter go.
They were compelled, therefore, to return to the place they had left the day before. From this point they changed their intended route, partly to throw the pursuers off the scent, if possible, and partly to seek temporary refuge at the house of an old woman who was an aunt of Sarah. "She's a real good Christian," said Sarah, when advising the visit, "and she fears no one but God.
On the culprit being set at liberty, the people were going away, when Towha called them back and addressed them, recapitulating what had been said to Otoo, condemning their present bad habits, and advising a reformation in future. The gracefulness of action and the attention with which he was heard showed that he was no mean orator.
They ran beside him to the barrier; advising him as they ran, as he would go, to string his bow and loosen an arrow in the girdle, and above all, not to loiter, or let his horse walk, but to keep him at as sharp a trot as he could. They were certain to be on the look out for travellers; let him beware.
"M'Laughlin! what are you talking about?" "Why, what is your Reverence talking about?" "The scapular," said the priest. "But I mane the wine and the mutton," says Phaddhy. "And is that the way you treat me, you reprobate you?" replied his Reverence in a passion: "is that the kind of attention you're paying me, and I, advising you, all this time, for the good of your soul?
"Well, I'm not advising any one," said he, "but you can draw your own conclusions. The two herds of mine, which I overtook, have orders to turn northeast and cross into the Nations at Red River Station. My other cattle, still below, will all be routed by way of Fort Griffin.
Let me tell you, moreover " this was said with the advising air of a superior in rank "that it will neither be wise not prudent in you, having been received into a British regiment, to become the Don Quixotte of your countrymen." "RECEIVED into a British regiment, sir! do you then imagine that I, more than yourself, should feel this to be a distinction," haughtily returned the indignant youth.
"If it's retiring from active service you mean," said Miss Belcher cheerfully, "that's what I began by advising. But stick to the title, Jack: you adorn it indeed you do. And for my part," she wound up, "I think you've done mighty well to-night, considering." "I've let one villain escape, you mean, and t'other go scot free."
"Now, Massa, suppose they see our boat, dey tink something; keep boat alongside, and shift her when we go 'bout every time: better not sail so fast now keep further off till they drop anchor for de night; and den, when it dark, we take 'em." All Mesty's advice was good, with the exception perhaps of advising our hero how to disobey orders and take a cruise.
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