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All the while the horses cropped, Garth strode ceaselessly up and down, biting his lips; while the white-faced boy, who had not spoken all morning, sat holding his bursting head between his hands; and Rina, crouching apart, gazed over the prairie with unseeing eyes.
He put it in this form: "Do you remember any domestic event in the spring of the present year which appeared to affect Mr. Vanstone more seriously than usual?" Miss Garth leaned forward in her chair, and looked eagerly at Mr. Pendril across the table. "The journey to London!" she exclaimed. "I distrusted the journey to London from the first! Yes! I remember Mr.
As they returned home, Karl expressed no wish to ride Buffalo, and Garth rode it, and Hardy drove his Danish horses. "I should like to see how you drive; may I come up and sit beside you?" said Helga. After they had gone a little way, Hardy said to her, "Take the reins and drive. I have bought these horses for my mother, and she will drive them herself, and you can drive them.
"The fellows from the Settlement promised to come look for us in a week if we weren't home," said Charley. "Good!" said Garth. "Then we'll wait for them!" "And the horses?" said the boy anxiously. "They're not much to brag about; but I'm in debt a hundred bones for them." Garth clapped him on the back again. "Don't you worry about that, old boy!" he cried. "The debt is mine!
Along the shores, steep cut-banks alternated with muddy shoals; and a new set of problems faced Garth. These chiefly took the form of stout willow bushes overhanging the cut-banks diabolically malicious, sentient beings, they became to Garth.
Garth commanded him, no matter what might happen, not to leave her side. The storm came roaring down the lake like a vast animate being; and there, in their exposed position, smote them hip and thigh. Each crash of thunder fell forth right upon the echo of the last; and the lightning played like wicked laughter on the face of the destroying heavens.
"Elisabeth Durward has surely supplied you with all the information on that subject which you require," he said in expressionless tones, and Sara was conscious anew of the maddening feeling of impotence with which a contest of wills between herself and Garth never failed to imbue her.
Wayne found the lantern upon the nail where it had hung when he was a boy, lighted it, and turned the wick low so that there was only a wan light in the bunk house. "Where's Big Bill's bunk?" he whispered to Garth. Chuckling softly he drew near the bunk which Garth indicated against the wall at the far end of the room. He leaned forward, stooping low, peering into the shadows.
It was only a little way, scarcely an eighth of a mile; but the way was beset with heart-breaking difficulties. "All hands ashore to push her off!" cried Garth. The breed boys, welcoming a voice of authority in that bewildering chaos, sprang to do his bidding.
But ill tongues, and worse hearts have branded his last moments, as wrongfully as they did his life, with irreligion: you must have heard many tales upon this subject; but if ever there was a good christian, without knowing himself to be so, it was Dr. Garth.
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