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Dick turned later and awoke just in time to hear the voice of a sentry calling: "Half past eleven! Post number one, and all's we-ell!" Then, a little further away, another voice took up the refrain: "Post num-ber two, and all's we-ell!" "Jupiter!" gasped sleepy Prescott, becoming instantly wide awake. "Post number three doesn't answer. They've gone and got old Dodge."
"Humph!" said Dad; but, presently, I saw mother put out her hand and tenderly touch him on the shoulder, as if to tell him that her temporary tiff had been dispelled, like the smoke from the discharge of the Victory's last gun, whereat I could hear him whisper under his breath as he kissed her cheek softly, "All's well that ends well, my dear!"
Well, we'll keep on, anyway. I'll have a turn around the old place. There's more there than some folks know of. I'll see that all's safe, if it rains pitchforks and barn-shovels. Giddap Billy."
"Why, I've seen a dying man look just like you now round the mouth but most in the eyes!" "Maybe the end of the long trail is White Slides Ranch," replied Wade, sadly and dreamily, as if to himself. "If Collie heard you say that!" exclaimed Moore, in anxious concern. "Collie an' you will hear me say a lot before long," returned Wade. "But, as it's calculated to make you happy why, all's well.
You little silly, my neck's too handsome for me to do anything to put a rope round it. Do you suppose I've kept my complexion to my age with nothing but cold water, you little cat? 'And the other will, says Harry, 'that my father meant to sign? 'I'll get you that, says Mrs. Blake. 'It's no use bearing malice now all's said and done.
Dean was about to recommence, when I advanced; and recognising me directly, she jumped to her feet, crying 'Why, bless you, Mr. Lockwood! How could you think of returning in this way? All's shut up at Thrushcross Grange. You should have given us notice! 'I've arranged to be accommodated there, for as long as I shall stay, I answered. 'I depart again to-morrow.
Smallbones turned round and reported the answer; and then, in obedience to his orders from Mistress Alice, he cried out, in imitation of the sentinels, "Pass, Ramsay, and all's well!" presented his arms, and made a flying leap off the rock where he stood, down on the platform, that he might lower the ladder as soon as Ramsay was up, who desired everybody might be sent down to secure the boxes of specie as fast as they could, lest the cutter's people, releasing themselves, should attempt an attack.
'Very good, sir; but there are still some left on the island, we have reason to believe, and the Enterprise is in search of them. 'By the bye, did Templemore find his lady? 'Oh yes, sir; and all's right, I believe: but I had very little to say to him on the subject. 'Humph! replied the admiral. 'I am glad to hear it. Well, send them on shore, Manly, to the proper authorities.
Nor would he draw back. "Haven't I?" he laughed harshly. "All's fair in love and war. We are at war officially." The woman's flushing cheeks remained, but the sparkle of her eyes had changed again to an ironical light. "War yes. Perhaps you're right. The only courtesies recognized in war are observed in the prize ring, and in international warfare.
"Your honour is not for taking us to Barbary." "No," answers the Don, dryly, passing his long fingers with some significance over the many seams in his long face, "but we must go where the Moors are to be found, on the hither side of the straits." "Well," says Dawson, "all's as one whither we go in safety if we're to be out of our fortune for a year.
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