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So she advanced into the passage to meet the new-comer with one of her pleasantest smiles. "I must claim an old woman's privilege of introducing myself, Mr. Maberly," she said. "Your uncle was tutor to the B s, when I was governess to the D s; so we are old acquaintances." "Can you forgive me, Miss Thornton?" he said, "for running up to the house in this lunatic sort of way?
I know them no more than does his Excellency. The second new-comer was now within hail, and began at once to speak in Spanish. The tale he told was similar in every way to that translated by Concepcion from the Limousin dialect. 'Why should we not travel together to Ronda? he said, coming forward with an easy air of confidence, which was of better effect than any protestation of honesty.
The hour arrived, and he set off for the lodge of the chief to attend the feast. The company were all prepared for him, for they made common cause with their friend who had been insulted. As the fox entered, the guest next the door, with great courtesy, rose from his place, and begged the new-comer to be seated.
It was a tiny fire, overhung with a blackened pot; the odor of greasewood and mesquite smoke was sharp. A man, rising swiftly to his feet at the first sound, was staring at the new-comer; he was as alert as any wild thing. But the woman scarcely heeded him. She staggered directly toward the pond, seeing nothing after the first glance except the water.
A little later a grown bird appeared, that I supposed at first was the returning papa, but a few moments' observation convinced me that it was the mother; partly because no song accompanied the work, but more because of the entirely different manners of the new-comer.
But she did feel curious, and mingled with her curiosity was a vague sense of something like compassion, if not exactly of pity, for she knew very well that at that moment the hotel was very full, and that the new-comer would have to put up with rather uncomfortable quarters if he were lucky enough to get any at all.
He executed elaborate figures with such perfect ease and certainty of movement that many turned to look at him in astonished admiration. "Great Scott!" said a cracked voice at Scott's shoulder. He turned sharply, and met the frank regard of a rosy-faced schoolboy a little shorter than himself. "Look at that bloomin' swell!" said the new-comer in tones of deep disgust.
At this Horapollo stepped up to Alexander, his eyes flashing with rage, and demanded that the intruder should be forbidden to speak; but the commanding eye of the new-comer rested on the dyer, who bowed his head and allowed him to proceed.
"I didn't know you was to come after me Buck," she added, speaking to the new-comer. "I 'lowed you'd be right skeered of the dark," the man answered, "so I 'lowed I'd come on up an' tote you home." He rubbed his left thigh carefully for a moment and then spoke to Ned. "That's a right pert mule," he said. "Did Uncle Ike kick you?" asked Jack, nudging Oliver in the ribs with an elbow.
Several other boys followed, but the new-comer of whom they were afraid, a man scarcely thirty years old, had legs of considerable length, and knew how to use them bravely. "Stop, boys!" he shouted in an echoing voice of command. "Stop! What has Happened here?"
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