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Mississip had barely vanished, when a light scratching was heard on the door. A Mexican opened it, and saw Nappy Boney, with extended hand and bottle. "It is the eau-de-vie of la belle France," he whispered. "Tenderly I have cherished, but it is at the lady's service."
"Say, Lucas" there was more than insistence in his tone this time; it held compulsion "you aren't faint-hearted?" The blue eyes began to smile. "I think not, Boney. But I've got to hang on for the present till you and the boy are married. P'r'aps then I'll take the risk." Nap looked supercilious. "And if it is not my intention to marry?" "You must marry, my dear fellow.
"When I saw your honor's face, and the beard you wore, I said to myself you wor a Frenchman." "You mistook there, then; I am your countryman, but have passed a good many years in France." "Fighting for Boney?" said he, as his eyes opened wide with surprise to behold one actually before him who might have served under Napoleon. "Yes, my good friend, even so; I was in the army of the Emperor."
"An' fawnin' on them for what is your inalienable right. It's humiliatin'," said the yellow horse, sniffing to see if he could find a few spare grains. "Go daown hill, then, Boney," the Deacon replied. "Guess you'll find somethin' to eat still, if yer hain't hogged it all. You've ett more'n any three of us to-day an' day 'fore that an' the last two months sence you've been here."
"It's for my own sake, old chap," he said. "You know, I didn't sleep last night. I was thinking about her about you both. And I want her to know everything to-night. I shall sleep the easier when she knows." Nap stood silent. His face was set in hard lines. "Will you tell her, Boney?" "What am I to tell her?" said Nap, "Tell her the truth, dear fellow, so that she understands it.
We shall have the first of the fight, sir; and depend on it Boney will take care that it shall be a hard one." "What are you driving at, Dobbin?" his interlocutor said, uneasy and with a scowl. "I suppose no Briton's afraid of any d Frenchman, hey?"
A hound dashed for him and one slap from the long sharp claws sent him howling and bleeding into the canes. But old Boney had watched him in the air, and, circling the pack that faced the coon, with a quick leap had downed him. Then every dog was with him and the battle was on.
I'm told that Boney tried to get all the gold out o' this country, by payin' three shillings more than each guinea was worth for it, but that seems unreasonable to me. Hows'ever, although I never could rightly understand it, there is no doubt that some of our lads were consarned in smugglin' guineas across the channel, and two or three of 'em made a good thing of it.
"I guess I'll fit out a privateer, and take some of your merchanters." "Take care you are not taken yourself," said I, "and pass your time on board one of our prison ships; but, remember, whatever may happen, it's all your own fault. You have picked a German quarrel with us, to please Boney; and he will only spit in your face when you have done your best for him.
This induration seems to have been occasioned by the constant afflux of the nutritive juices, which were stopt at that place, and deprived of their most liquid parts; the grosser ones being unable to spread in the boney cavity, by which they were confined, could only acquire a greater solidity, and change a soft body into a hard and nearly osseous mass.
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