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Mrs. Considine to satisfy this nostalgia took her for a week's trip to the English Lakes. She returned railing at Scawfell and Skiddaw for unimportant undulations, and declaring her preference for London. So in London she remained. In these early stages of our acquaintance with Liosha, she counted in our lives for little more than a freakish interest.
Remarking that it was tough, he proceeded to pick up its literary contents, while his brothers skinned the lioness. Shortly afterwards they all returned to camp. Passing that way an hour or so later, Hans Marais and Charlie Considine came upon the spoor of the lioness. "I say, Charlie," called out Hans, "there must be a lion in the vley there. I've got the spoor. Come here."
Meanwhile the boat flew through the water, and Considine, who alone among us seemed not to lose his presence of mind, cut away the mast and sent it overboard.
But Jimmy likes Considine, you know.... By the way, it was very disgraceful of Jimmy, but not so disgraceful as you might think. In its way it's a compliment. He thinks so much of you Oh, I may as well tell you the shocking truth. He ran away. What a moth in the drawing-room ought to do, but never can, Jimmy, not at all a moth, quite suddenly did. My dear Mrs. Macartney, Jimmy ran away from you.
The eyes were open and stared glassily at his feet, which were twined with tresses of golden hair, streaked with grey, which came through the broken hearth-stone. The Gipsy Prophecy 'I really think, said the Doctor, 'that, at any rate, one of us should go and try whether or not the thing is an imposture. 'Good! said Considine. 'After dinner we will take our cigars and stroll over to the camp.
I've been talking to Paddy here, and we've reckoned we've had enough of this fooling, and we're off to England. Come on, Paddy, will we go and get some tea?" "Yes, and there's some tremenjus fine opals in a shop down this way I'll buy you!" said Considine, as they started to walk away from the Court. At that moment Blake came out of Court, saw them, and stepped in front of Peggy.
I was still lost in revery, when an under-agent of my uncle's rode up. "Oh, Master Charles!" said he, "what's to be done? They've forgotten Mr. Holmes at Woodford, and we haven't a carriage, chaise, or even a car left to send for him." "Have you told Mr. Considine?" inquired I. "And sure you know yourself how little Mr. Considine thinks of a lawyer.
Then she fell on the horse's neck again, and so on ad lib. This made the Englishman very morose. He was quite glad when Charlie said he had seen enough of the cattle, and they would all start next day for civilisation Charlie to resume the management of Mr. Grant's stations, Carew to go with him as "colonial experiencer," and Considine to start for England to look after his inheritance.
As Considine could elicit no fuller information he bade him a contemptuous farewell and rode away in the direction indicated. He had not gone far when a dark speck became visible on the horizon directly in front. "Ho! Rob," he exclaimed, "that looks like something a bush, is it? If so, we may find water there, who knows eh?
He was clad in the rough woollen and leathern garments worn by the frontier farmers, or boers, of that period, and carried one of those long heavy flint-lock guns, or "roers," which the Dutch-African colonist then deemed the most effective weapon in the universe. "Well met!" exclaimed Considine heartily, as he rode up.
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