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When I remembered how blond, how red-blond our sinewy young porter was, I could not well help breveting him of that race, and honoring him because he could have read those words with the eyes that were so blue amid the general Spanish blackness of eyes.
When he sees a covey of partridges dusting themselves in the roads, he will tell you they are "bathering." A dog hunting through a wood is always said to be "breveting." "I don't like that dog of So-and-so's, he do 'brevet' so," is a favourite saying. The ground on a frosty morning "scrumps" or "feels scrumpety," as you walk across the fields; and the partridges when wild, are "teert."
"'Twon't dew to give it up while we float, Major," said Glover, breveting the lieutenant by way of cheering him. "I don't give it up," replied Thurstane; "but I had a duty to do there, and now I can't do it." "There's dooties to be 'tended to here, I reckon," suggested Glover. "They will be done," said the officer, raising his head and settling his face. "How can we help you?"
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