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"I think I do," replied Stephen, quietly. The Judge suppressed something. "What did you do with this person?" he demanded "I took her to Miss Crane's boarding-house," said Stephen. It was the Colonel's turn to explode. The guffaw which came from hire drowned every other sound. "Good God!" said the Judge, helplessly.
Not that the newly enlisted soldier would misunderstand: but he would realize why he heard nothing more from his colonel's daughter. She need not fear that he would be hurt.
Once I caught Harley smiling at me in his quizzical fashion, and I wondered guiltily if I were displaying an undue interest in the companion of Madame. Many topics were discussed, I remember, and beyond doubt the colonel's cousin-housekeeper dominated the debate. She possessed extraordinary force of personality.
But meantime, perhaps, you'll accept five shillings from a grateful comrade-in-arms. Oswald felt heart-felt sorry to wound the good Colonel's feelings, but he had to remark that he had only done his duty, and he was sure no British scout would take five bob for doing that.
Mannering, with Sampson for his companion, lost no time in his journey to Edinburgh. They travelled in the Colonel's post-chariot, who, knowing his companion's habits of abstraction, did not choose to lose him out of his own sight, far less to trust him on horseback, where, in all probability, a knavish stable-boy might with little address have contrived to mount him with his face to the tail.
As they talked, the boy gave sidelong glances at his new friend, and wondered at the Colonel's loose trousers, long moustaches, and yellow face. He looked very odd, Clive thought, very odd and very kind, and like a gentleman, every inch of him: not like Martin's father, who came to see his son lately in highlows, and a shocking bad hat, and actually flung coppers amongst the boys for a scramble.
We start soon up the Ohio and all these are to be left behind." Henry was received that very day in the Colonel's tent. Clark, apt to grow sluggish and careless in idleness, was now all energy and keenness. The confidence of the borderer in him was not misplaced.
De Kernel will be here soon, but he would be pow'ful mo'tified, sah, if yo' didn't hab something afo' he come." He opened a well-filled sideboard as he spoke. It was the first evidence Paul had seen of the colonel's restored fortunes.
And now the Colonel's work goes on apace, and the whole town is filled with the noise and bustle of lumbering carts and eager workmen.
Arbuton thought he had better get another carriage; he should incommode Mrs. Ellison; but Mrs. Ellison protested that he would not at all; and, to cut the matter short, he mounted to the colonel's side. It was another stroke of fate. At the hotel they found a line of people reaching half-way down the outer steps from the inside of the office.
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