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But, while Ragnvald was in Little Papey now Papa Stronsay to fetch malt for Yuletide, Thorfinn returned, and surrounded the house in which Ragnvald was, by night; and, on his escaping by leaping through the besiegers in priestly disguise, Thorfinn's men followed him, and, led by his lapdog's barking, discovered him among the rocks by the sea, where Thorkel Fostri slew him, Thorfinn meanwhile annihilating his following, save one man.
"Ay; then I shall die happy. Thank Heaven, you are my only nurse and attendant. I remember the day when I was ill after one of their rude debauches. Ill! a sick headache a fit of the spleen a spoiled lapdog's illness! Well: they wanted me that night to support one of their paltry measures their parliamentary measures.
The path to the door was guarded by a low fence of split-bamboo baskets that had once contained sugar from Batavia; a coffee bag from the wreck of a Dutch barque served for door-mat; a rum-cask with a history caught rain-water from the eaves; and a lapdog's pagoda a dainty affair, striped in scarlet and yellow, the jetsom of some passenger ship had been deftly adapted by Old Zeb, and stood in line with three straw bee-skips under the eastern wall.
That did make you angry enough with a man to hate a man. It was like seeing a good book as it might be "Lombard Street" used to prop a table leg; or a jolly dog as the dearest Scotch terrier once brought to the boarding house led for a walk on a leash by an old maiden mistress and wearing a lapdog's flannel coat with ribbon bows at the corner.
"Ay; then I shall die happy. Thank Heaven, you are my only nurse and attendant. I remember the day when I was ill after one of their rude debauches. Ill! a sick headache a fit of the spleen a spoiled lapdog's illness! Well: they wanted me that night to support one of their paltry measures their parliamentary measures.
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