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The assailants were, in truth, impotent before the masterly inactivity of Carleton, who waited patiently behind his walls for the arrival in the spring of a British fleet. Counting upon this expectancy the Americans tried an old-time ruse.
"Elfie my dear Elfie," he said at last very tenderly, in the same way that he would have spoken nine years before "Hugh gave his part of you to me I must take care of it." Fleda tried to rouse herself immediately. "This is poor entertainment for you, Mr. Carleton," she said, raising her head and wiping away the tears from her face. "You are mistaken," he said gently.
There was a look on his face which Miss Carleton had never seen. Gradually, however, his features softened, and he continued,
Their appearance justified the assertion, and melancholy experience in the speedy death of a large part of them, stamped it with infallible certainty." The cruel treatment of the prisoners being the subject of conversation among some officers captured by Sir Guy Carleton, General Parsons, who was of the company, said, "I am very glad of it."
The utmost that Jack Carleton could hope to do was to show his captors that, while he longed to return to his friends, he saw no means of doing so, and therefore was not likely to make the attempt. Such he resolved would be his course. The Sauks, like all their race, were extremely fond of dogs, and the mongrel curs seemed to be everywhere.
"Seems to me," remarked Otto, who began to feel some weariness and impatience, "dot the animal ish not a good vile getting tired so as he vants to sot down and rest." "He is likely to do so when it begins to grow dark, which will be before long," added Jack Carleton, noting the closing day. The friends had been hopeful from the first that they would overtake the missing horse before sunset.
Carleton, after considering the little-improved colour of Fleda's face. "I have, indeed." "Where is it?" Fleda hesitated, and then, in a little confusion, said, she supposed it was lying on Mrs. Evelyn's centre-table. "How happens that?" said he, smiling. "Because I could not help it, Mr. Carleton," said Fleda, with no little difficulty; "I was foolish, I could not bring it away."
"Dot ish all right," assented Otto; "dot ish, it will be all right if he ain't all wrong when you hits him." Jack Carleton made no reply. He was standing with his left foot thrown slightly forward, his rifle, at his right shoulder, his head inclined and his left eye, closed.
Proud Position of the Republic France obeys her Hatred of Carleton Position and Character of Aerssens Claim for the "Third" Recall of Aerssens Rivalry between Maurice and Barneveld, who always sustains the separate Sovereignties of the Provinces Conflict between Church and State added to other Elements of Discord in the Commonwealth Religion a necessary Element in the Life of all Classes.
Carleton unbuckled the strap that held him in his seat, rose, and looked over the top plane. There, just above and well out of range, was an enemy fighting plane. The machine had apparently dropped from the clouds above, and with great good fortune gained an ideal position.
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