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Lucas was still carrying Dot; Flurry was trotting beside him, and pretending to use Dot's crutches. "We have been ever so far, Essie," screamed Dot when he caught sight of me. "We have seen lots of seagulls, and a great cave where the smugglers used to hide." "Oh, Dot, you must not let Mr. Lucas carry you," I said, holding out my arms to relieve him of his burden.
He saw the girl run with a cry and receive the bleeding body of Red Perris into her arms. He saw the man on crutches swing towards them, exclaiming " without even a bridle! Marianne, he must have hypnotized that hoss!" "Oh, Dad," the girl wailed, "if he dies if he dies " The eyes of Perris, where he lay on the flagging, opened wearily. "I'll live I can't die!
"You might be tempted," he explained, "if they were here, and your father's cane is all you really need. Be a good girl and I'll come up again soon." Eloise was watching from the piazza of the hotel, and, when he came in sight, she went up the road to meet him. "Oh, Allan," she cried, breathlessly, as she saw the crutches. "Is she ?" "She's all right.
He stepped inside the house immediately, halted when he caught sight of Wayland in his undress uniform, glanced involuntarily at his crutches and bandaged leg, cast a quick, penetrating glance right and left; then he spoke pleasantly in his hesitating, imperfect French so oddly imperfect that Wayland could not understand him at all. "Who are you?" he demanded in English.
Everybody went home that night with the assurance that the fugitives would soon be taken. Anderson promised the town board that he would not take them until the jail was repaired. It was almost a fortnight before Wicker Bonner was able to walk about with crutches. The wound in his leg was an ugly one and healed slowly.
Delicious odours of soup and of Breton cider greeted him; he seated himself; Marie-Josephine waited on him, hovered over him, tucked a sack of feathers under his maimed leg, placed his crutches in the corner beside the gun. Still eating, leisurely, he began: "Marie-Josephine a strange thing has happened on Quesnel Moors which troubles me.... Listen attentively.
The people in the other attic thought he was only drunk, and they wouldn't come in. He's lying on the floor there, dead." "Come and see my father," Marco said. "He'll tell us what do do. Lazarus, help him." "I can get on by myself," said The Rat. "Do you see my crutches? I did something for a pawnbroker last night, and he gave them to me for pay."
I never see him limping about on his crutches while Biddy is washing without thanking God for my happier fate." "Why, Annie, it is not probable that he suffers one-half as much as you do." "As much pain, do you mean, mamma?" "Yes." "I wasn't thinking of that. They are very poor; and if he lives to be a man, how can he earn the comforts of life? I need have no care on that account."
He riveted Mara's attention instantly, for her first glance revealed that he had lost his right leg and that crutches leaned against the arm of his chair. He could not be other than a veteran of the Confederate army, as it would be strange indeed to find an ex-soldier of the North in that abode. His strong, finely-cut side face, distinctly outlined against the light, was toward her.
Piles of crutches of every description, of oak, of ash, of pine, are deposited in every available corner as so many votive offerings from the countless cripples that claim to have been cured or relieved. The relic through which all the wonderful cures are said to be effected, consists of a part of the finger bone of Ste.
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