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"Indeed, madam," said the broker, "he knows you, though he did not recollect you while you was here, as your hood was drawn over your face; but the moment you was gone he begged to look at the picture, which I, thinking no harm, permitted. He had scarce looked upon it when he cried out, 'By heaven and earth it is her picture! He then asked me if I knew you."
He submits to plunder as a matter of course, and then announces himself as a messenger sent to invite Robin Hood to the royal presence. The outlaw receives this message with great respect. There is no man in the world, he says, whom he loves so much as his king.
Our folks are fixin' up a place foh Bill Sherman to butt his brains out gain'." "Bill Sherman!" we all shouted in surprise: "Why he ain't within two hundred miles of this place, is he?" Old Man "Yes, but he is, tho'. He thinks he's played a sharp Yankee trick on Hood.
"A fool to want me?" "By God, yes. You know that, you slut." "No. You would be a fool if you didn't, you man." "Be careful." Harry flushed. "Oh Lud, was I made to be careful?" He gripped her hand, and, after a moment, "Take off your hood," he muttered. "Is that all?" She laughed, and let it fall from hair and neck, and looked as though sunlight had flashed out at her.
Go down on your knees and pray that no telegram from Foot Brothers I mean, Legge arrives during the next five-and-twenty minutes. 'Why? 'If not, you're to takee this notee to Brother Andrew Leggee, comprenez? The boss was going to send me, but he altered his mind, worse luck. 'Twelve-thirteen? asked Hood. 'Yes. And now if you're in the mind, I'll box you for half a dollar what say?
As we went, however, in her gondola, gliding there under the sociable hood with the bright Venetian picture framed on either side by the movable window, I could see that she was amused by my infatuation, the way my interest in the papers had become a fixed idea.
'Sorra a friend I have sorra a friend, Masther Richard; and I did not spake to the priest this year or more, and I darn't go near him, said the poor Palmerstown lass that was once so merry. 'Why won't you listen to me, child? I won't have you this way. You must have your cloak and hood. 'Tis very cold; and, by Heavens, Nan, you shall never want while I have a guinea.
This regular story course will be broken into at the holidays when stories appropriate to the season will be told. Their bulletin for November, 1904, gives the program for 1904-5 on Legends of Robin Hood and Stories from Ivanhoe. The outline follows: LEGENDS OF ROBIN HOOD Story 1. How Robin Hood became an outlaw. Story 2. How Robin Hood outwitted the Sheriff of Nottingham Town. Story 3.
'You will start at four, General Whiting, and march until midnight, when you will bivouac. At early dawn a courier will bring you further instructions. Very good! We march and bivouac, and here's the courier. 'The brigades of Whiting, Hood, and Lawton will return to Staunton. There they will receive further instructions." Whiting swore. "We are getting a taste of his quality with a vengeance!
His personal escort numbered about sixty mounted men, made up of detachments from companies of the First Dragoons, under command of Lieutenant Hood, together with about one hundred men belonging to the Fourth Infantry and Third Artillery, commanded by Lieutenant Horatio Gates Gibson, the present colonel of the Third United States Artillery.
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