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He was riding fast, with his thoughts filled with the widow, when he heard a joyous bark in the underbrush, and Fluffy came bounding towards him. Blair dismounted to caress him, as was his wont, and then, wisely conceiving that his mistress was not far away, sauntered forward exploringly, leading his horse, the dog hounding before him and barking, as if bent upon both leading and announcing him.
Blair shook his head at my rallying him, as he said in his broad Scotch tongue, "Ah, but no man of us expected ever to see his wife and bairns again; that I can assure ye." We were again indebted to private courtesy for a trip from Syra to Canea, though the delay was long.
Nannie said she rushed at her brother. "Blair!" The boy flung up his head proudly. "She told you, did she?" "You're engaged!" cried Nannie, ecstatically. Blair started. "Why!" he said. "So I am! I never thought of it." And when he got his breath, the radiant darkness of his eyes sparkled into laughter. "Yes, I'm engaged!"
Blair told Skipper Freeman what the Admiral wanted, and the good man grinned hard. "Right, sir; your time's your own. I'll manage." The dusk drooped early; a fair breeze was blowing, and the swift schooner loitered with the smacks. Freeman sent up a rocket, the schooner's foresail was let over, and she rustled away through the squadron of brown-sailed craft.
"A man doesn't tell a thing like that," Blair said scornfully. "Well!" David snorted, "I suppose some time you'll be married?" Blair nodded again. "Right off." "Huh!" said David; "your mother won't let you. You are only sixteen. Don't be an ass." "I'll be seventeen next May." "Seventeen! What's seventeen?
Things had gone well with Crawford; the seam had proved to be unusually rich; and, though the iron had been found, not on his land, but on the extreme edge of Blair, he was quite satisfied. Farquharson had struck hands with him over it, and the Blair iron ore went to the Crawford furnaces to be smelted into pig iron. Crawford had grown younger in the ardent life he had been leading.
The men knew that the yacht was free to them as a dispensary, and the care they took to avoid doing unnecessary damage was touching. When you are wearing a pair of boots weighing jointly about three stone, you cannot tread like a fairy. Blair knew this, and, though his boat was scrupulously clean, he did not care for the lady's boudoir and oak floor business.
The President considered the dispute one of form rather than substance, and having a deep regard, not only for the Postmaster-General, but for his brother, General Frank Blair, and for his distinguished father, was most reluctant to take action against him. Even in the bosom of the government, however, a strong hostility to Mr. Blair manifested itself.
But there were other things, which Archie spoke of in whispers to his sister when they were away together among the hills, mysterious hints of their cousin Hugh Blair, and of his mother's troubles with him before he went away.
"Cherry-pie would think it was horrid in me not to stay with her, when I've been away so long." "I think it's horrid in you not to stay with me." She laughed; then sighed. "David is working awfully hard, Blair." "Darn David!" he retorted, laughing. "So am I, if that's any reason for your giving a man your society." "You! You couldn't work hard to save your life."
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