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At the upper station a little group stood awaiting her, and as the train pulled slowly to the platform, Gabriella distinguished her mother's pallid face framed in the hanging crape of her veil; Jane, thin, anxious, anæmic, with her look of pinched sweetness; Chancy, florid, portly, and virtuously middle-aged, and their eldest daughter Margaret, a blooming, beautiful girl.
And he had ended by outraging both them and her, and on top of that demanded that she turn her back at twenty-four hours' notice, on Granville and all its associations and follow him into a wilderness that she dreaded. She had full right to her resentment. As his partner in the chancy enterprise of marriage were not her feelings and desires entitled to equal consideration?
The nobles and the King and the priests were always suspending little rags here and there and yonder, to give notice to the people that the decorated spot or thing was tabu, and death lurking near. The struggle for life was difficult and chancy in the islands in those days. Thus advantageously was the new king situated.
And indeed it was well on in the afternoon when that grave man dismounted a little stiffly from his pony, and I made bold to search for Dan and Belle, and tell my errand. It would maybe be a chancy business, but these two were like bairns then and on the doorstep they were married.
I questioned, reaching the ale he had brought. "What talk is this of ghosts?" "What's yon?" he whispered, starting up, as a rustling sounded beyond the door. "Mere rats, man!" "Lord love ye, Mart'n," says he, glancing about him, "'tis a chancy place this. I don't know how ye can abide it." "I've known worse!" said I. "Then ye don't believe in spectres, Mart'n ghosts, pal, nor yet phantoms?"
To answer them called for dissecting this unknown monster; to dissect it called for catching it; to catch it called for harpooning it which was Ned Land's business; to harpoon it called for sighting it which was the crew's business; and to sight it called for encountering it which was a chancy business. At Random! FOR SOME WHILE the voyage of the Abraham Lincoln was marked by no incident.
The nobles and the King and the priests were always suspending little rags here and there and yonder, to give notice to the people that the decorated spot or thing was tabu, and death lurking near. The struggle for life was difficult and chancy in the islands in those days. Thus advantageously was the new king situated.
The navvy waking from sleep and without malice heaving a stone to crush the life out of his still sleeping comrade, is understood to lack the trained motive which makes a character fairly calculable in its actions; but by a roundabout course even a gentleman may make of himself a chancy personage, raising an uncertainty as to what he may do next, that sadly spoils companionship.
The ranch house may be of adobe and look squatty; but remember that adobe squattiness is the best protection against wind and heat; and inside, you will find hot and cold water, bathroom, and meals equal to the best hotels in Chicago and New York. In New York or Chicago, that amount would afford you mighty chancy fare and only a back hall room.
I had some other advice from Neil: to speak with no one by the way, to avoid Whigs, Campbells, and the "red-soldiers"; to leave the road and lie in a bush if I saw any of the latter coming, "for it was never chancy to meet in with them"; and, in brief, to conduct myself like a robber or a Jacobite agent, as perhaps Neil thought me.
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