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Donovan, a midshipman, on board the other, he having been near two years upon duty on this island, and was well acquainted with the above particulars: this assistance enabled them at all proper times to make more free with the shore. Mr. Keltie, the master of the Sirius, and Mr. Brooks, the boatswain, attended with me the whole day at the landing-place.
"Yes, if you like. Put on your hat though. Where's your mother?" "In the garden with Mr. Cunningham; he came a few minutes ago; and he's got such a horse, father! A real beauty just like cocoa." "A roan," said Donovan, laughing; then, as Ralph disappeared through the open door, he turned to the servant. "Is it Mr. Cunningham of Blachingbury?" "No, sir; Mr. Leslie Cunningham."
Cries of "Kill-kill the infidels!" resounded on all sides; but Dicky called up again to Abdalla. "Stop this nonsense, effendi." Then, without awaiting an answer, he shouted to the crowd: "I am Donovan Pasha. Touch me, and you touch Ismail. I haven't come to spy, but to sorrow with you for Noor-ala-Noor, whose soul is with God, praise be to God, and may God give her spirit to you!
Colonel Chester and Captain Evans were both killed near the redoubt. Captain Donovan, of the 33rd, captured another gun; but the horses not being harnessed to it, the driver took to flight, and it could not be removed. Nineteen sergeants of that regiment were killed or wounded, chiefly in defence of their colours.
The landlord shoved the book forward, with one finger on the last signature. "Yep," he said shortly, "but she ain't the one you was lookin' for I asked her that, furst thing." "Stella Donovan huh! That's no name ever I heard; what's she look like?" "Like a lady, I reckon; I ain't seen one fer quite a spell now." "Dark or light?"
He had not before faced the situation from this standpoint, yet, with only one thought in his mind, he answered promptly. "I am not the law," he said, "and all I am interested in now is the release of Fred Cavendish and Stella Donovan. I'll accomplish that if it has to be over your dead bodies. Beyond this, I wash my hands of the whole affair. What I want to know is where are these two?"
"I am that, although, by the blessing of God, I have made many friends on the journey, and every one I met has been good to me." "Ah, Father Donovan, you couldn't meet a bad man if you travelled the world over. Sure there's some that carry such an air of blessedness with them that every one they meet must, for very shame, show the best of his character.
Then he said quickly: I hear you are writing some essays about esthetics. Stephen made a vague gesture of denial. Goethe and Lessing, said Donovan, have written a lot on that subject, the classical school and the romantic school and all that. The Laocoon interested me very much when I read it. Of course it is idealistic, German, ultra-profound. Neither of the others spoke.
"If it weren't you, Donovan Pasha, I should say that, associated with Ismail, as you are, you are as criminal as he." "What is crime in one country, is virtue in another," answered Dicky. "I clamp the wheel sometimes to keep it from spinning too fast. That's my only duty. I am neither Don Quixote nor Alexander Imperator."
One soldier started to the right of the tree and the other to the left, so as to close in upon him and retake him. This was what he wanted, for he had them "spread," and could deal with them singly. He used the Donovan tactics on the first guard, and they worked out with shameful ease.
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