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And this was the way that he, Varney, had kept the coming of the Cypriani quiet in Hunston! "And think of the cursed bull luck of it!" cried Peter. "The most the rascal hoped to do was to ruin my plans for helping Hare by these dirty hints about both of us at the best to scare us away from Hunston. He never dreamed that he was knocking the bottom out of any private plans of yours!"
"You are a little, precious little. You will have to come on deck now, and chance what the skipper says about the job." "Yes, yes; I will," said Hunston, waking up. "He can't kill us." "Nor eat me," said the stowaway, with a sickly smile. "Not he." "Any thing is better than remaining longer here. I believe I should die if I did." "Then up you come at once, as sure as my name's Jack Tiller."
"It is, though, and it is in English, I should say, too." "Yes." "Can't you read it?" "No." "Strange. Yet you are English." "Yes." "Well, I have some English friends here to whom I will show it, and " Hunston broke in impatiently at this. "English here!" he exclaimed. "Where do they live?" "At the villa " "What, the Harkaway family, do you mean?" "Yes." "And you would take it there?" "Why not? Mr.
"You can threaten in safety, fellow," said young Harkaway, turning and facing their old enemy, "since you have so many backers to protect you." Hunston grew livid. "You wretched spawn of a hated race," he ejaculated between his teeth, "do you dare speak to me?" "There is not much daring required," retorted Jack, boldly.
"I know not what country they were of, but besides the Greeks, there were two men who seemed leaders; one was called Signor Toro, the other was named Hunston." "How many were there in all?" "Three Greeks besides the two foreigners." "Do you know any thing of the haunts of these brigands, friend goatherd?" "Aye, well.
Directly opposite stood the eccentric young man of the row-boat, watching the show out of listless eyes whose expression never changed. "On that horse-block," said Peter, raising his voice to carry above an outburst of catcalls and allegedly humorous comment, "stands the Hunston Reform Movement. Giving 'em a ripping talk, too all out of Bryce, Mill, and the other fellows."
For the moment his mind attacked the problem with curiously little spirit; but one thing at least was instantly clear. He must return to Hunston to-night, by the first train after his arrival in New York, find Higginson and call him to his well-earned reckoning.
The old man's madness and his deceit were but the measure of his desire for his daughter. And the more he desired her, so it seemed to Varney, the more he was entitled to have her. Interrupting his meditations, the steward approached on silent feet, bearing a flat brown-paper package in his hand. It appeared that the under-steward had just returned from a marketing tour in Hunston, had met Mr.
The expenses for this county, where there are so many outvoters to bring up, and so many agents to retain, are always large in comparison with some other counties; but that consideration is all in your favour, for it deters Squire Hunston, the only man who could beat you, from starting; and to your resources a thousand pounds more or less are a trifle not worth discussing.
"What did I say? I have only just rendered you a great service at least, so you say " "And mean." "And mean, perhaps; and yet you are already threatening me. When I said that your gratitude is said to bring bad luck to anyone, I was only repeating an idle saying as I thought but it seems like the truth, after all." Hunston was moving thoughtfully away, when the brigand's words stopped him.
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