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Know that I was minded to leap upon that king and break his neck, so that all three of us might end together. But of a sudden something seemed to tell me to leave him alone and let things go as they are fated. But how can the holy Tanofir who grows blind with age, see so far?" "I do not know, Bes, save that he is not as are other men, for in him is gathered all the ancient wisdom of Egypt.
He took another swig at his glass and shifted his eyes to the fire. "Sure, sir, ye may be right," he said. "Was it in Harbor Grace ye seed me?" "No. I have never set foot in Harbor Grace," returned Mr. Darling. "That bes my home, sir Harbor Grace," lied Dick, cheerfully. Just then Jake entered with Mr. Darling's toddy.
Babe protested sleepily, lifting her head from his shoulder and spatting him reprovingly on the cheek. "You're my bes' friend and you've got a lots more sense than a wabbit!" "And your rainbow, Casey Ryan?" the Little Woman asked softly. "What about this other, new rainbow?" "It's there," said Casey gloomily. "It'll always be there jest over the ridge ahead uh me.
An' now I'll be goin', Mother Nolan dear, for I bain't wishin' Denny to catch me here a-whisperin' t'ye so early in the mornin' or maybe he'd get the idea into his head as how us two women bain't such harmless fools as what he's always bin takin' us for." "Ye bes a fine girl, Mary Kavanagh," returned Mother Nolan, "an' I trusts ye to clear this harbor o' trouble.
It would be worth five sovereigns to you, my man that little trip." George Wick looked interested, but shook his head. "It bes a bad coast, sir," he said, "an' clean unbeknownst to me. An' now it would be desperate, sir, what wid the ice a-chokin' all the little coves so ye couldn't run in from a squall o' wind, sir."
"Yo' bes', Miss Rena,'ll be de bes' dey is. Don' you worry ner fret. Dem niggers won't have no other teacher after dey've once laid eyes on you: I'll guarantee dat. Dere won't be no trouble, not a bit." "Well, Cousin Molly," said Mary B. to Mis' Molly in the kitchen, "how does the plan strike you?" "Ef Rena's satisfied, I am," replied Mis' Molly.
An' then he tips and busts into the skipper's house, wid the intention o' t'iefing the money an' where bes Foxey Jack Quinn this minute? The saints only knows! or maybe the divil could tell ye! An' there was Dick Lynch. Dick ups an' crosses the skipper in the store, an' gets his head broke. Nex', he raises a mutiny agin the skipper an' slips his knife into a mate.
"Th' ain't none 'cept de bes' quality keep they word dat-a-way," said Ned, as he went off to tell Uncle Ben in the kitchen. Was there ever, in all this wide country, a good cook who was not a tyrant? Uncle Ben Carvel was a veritable emperor in his own domain; and the Colonel himself, had he desired to enter the kitchen, would have been obliged to come with humble and submissive spirit.
But should you have the better of me in any of these ways, then I give to you this girdle of rose pearls and the weight of the dwarf Bes in gold and the six hunters free of harm, to do with what you will. Let it be recorded, and to the hunt." Soon Bes and I were in our chariot which by command took place in line with that of the King, but at a distance of some thirty steps.
Also there were many thousands of others between these and the walls of Amada, and to the south of the city yet a second army, that with which Bes had been left to deal, with what success I knew not. "Ethiopians," I shouted, "cease crying Victory, since the battle is about to begin. Strike, and at once before the Easterns find their heart again."
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