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If anybody should decide, it should be Jess' mother. She is going with us." "Oh! there's another thing," interrupted the fly-away Bobby. "If Lil goes, she's going to take along a lady's maid." "What?" gasped the other girls. "Mrs. Pendleton is going to pay the wages of a girl to go with us and do the camp work," announced Bobby, and now she spoke with some enthusiasm. "Goodness!" exclaimed Laura.
Hurrying below, the chart was got out, and now the exact position of the ship was obtained. "Hurrah! If this volcano of an island doesn't prove a fly-away piece of rock, we shall be up to it before sunset," exclaimed Green. The wind had now sufficiently gone down to allow all sail to be set. The part of the crew who had knocked off from the pumps and the buckets were roused up.
"I cannot find language of sufficient energy to convey my sense of the sacredness of private integrity." On the other hand, he is never far from his great fear: "But Truth is such a fly-away, such a sly-boots, so untransportable and unbarrelable a commodity, that it is as bad to catch as light."
"I am used to these little matters, and will take care of you." "I vill answer for t'at," put in the constable, looking over his shoulder. "No young fly-away in Allponny hast more knowletge in t'ese matters t'an Mr. Guert, here. If any potty can draw his heat out of the yoke, Mr. Guert can, Yaas yaas he know all apout t'ese little matters, sure enough." This was encouraging, of a certainty!
But notwithstanding his fly-away ideas, President Burgers was undoubtedly a true patriot, labouring night and day for the welfare of the state of which he had to undertake the guidance: but his patriotism was too exalted for his surroundings.
"No I can't remember that any one ever did." "How funny! Your face is made for it." Sue brushed the soft fly-away hair, coiling it low over the ears and twisting it into a becoming knot on the neck. Annabel clapped her hands with delight. "Didn't I tell you?" she said. "Here, take this mirror. Isn't it splendid? Why, it makes you look all of twenty.
Some of the more credulous of the seamen began to connect it, in some way or other, with the sudden disappearance of the strange brig. "I knowed it would be so," muttered Dick Harper. "I never yet heard of any one coming across those fly-away, never-find-me sort of chaps we met t'other day, but what was sure to get into mischief afore long."
"Fly-away!" exclaimed Uncle Tucker, "now Sister Viney's never going to forgive me that Bible slip-up if I don't persuade her from now on till supper. But there is nothing more for you to do out here, Rose Mary, the sun'll put out the light for you," and he hurried away down the path and through the garden gate.
"Faith, I'll say what I think, and that in y'r face! Maybe he'll tire of the handsome rip for handsome she is, like a yellow lily growin' out o' mud and go back to his lawful wife, that believes he's at the mines, when he's drinkin' and colloguin' wid a fly-away." Pierre slowly wheeled till he had the Irishman straight in his eye.
Meantime while they were slowly admitting the identity of their friend and correspondent, honest John Cornelius Ryp himself arrived no fantastic fly-away Hollander, but in full flesh and blood, laden with provisions, and greeting them heartily.
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