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"Just think of all the deprivations you would have to suffer with your old uncle! Think how lonely it would be for you to live with a sick man in a wild nest among the rocks! What do you say to that?" he said curtly. "Oh, it would only be glorious for Salo and me to have a real home with an uncle we loved," Leonore continued, showing that her longing could not be quenched.
"Oh, not for you alone," she answered earnestly; "but for all the hundreds upon whom you, in your position, and with your attractions, will bring the new power of your goodness to bear. You cannot think, with all your scepticism, that such a man has lived and died for nothing.
Fierce pace tires, but you were easier to tire when you began." Winn's eyes wandered over the little man beside him. "Oh, I don't know," he said good-naturedly; he had never in his life felt so good-natured. "I suppose I thought we were getting beaten. That rather braces one up, doesn't it?" "Ah, that is you English all over," laughed Mavorovitch.
"Yes, she asked if she could; but when I told her she might, she seemed to get afeared to come into a jail, and said she would call again to-morrow night at the same hour." "Can you tell me nothing more of what she was like? not she who was here this evening?" "Why, no; don't you think I know her kind? Oh, we see many o' them.
"Now you watch me heave this newspaper right onto Mis' Brown's doorstep." Piff! and the packet landed exactly as it was intended, on the corn husk mat in front of the screen door. "Oh, how splendid that was!" cried Rebecca with enthusiasm. "Just like the knife thrower Mark saw at the circus.
"You shall fix your own salary, Kate, and my lawyer men will arrange that the chosen sum is settled upon you so that if we fall out we can quarrel on equal terms." "Oh, I see, it's an adopted daughter I am to be, then?" "An adopted sister, rather." "Do you think I am going to take advantage of my friendship with an heiress, and so pension myself off?"
"And oh," next stanza says, "to think what our glory is founded on," on view of that unmentionable object, I declare to you! Strange TE-DEUM indeed. Coming from the very heart, truly, as few of them do; but not, in other points, recommendable at all! Here, of the night before, is something better: "At last, my dear Sister, I can announce you a bit of good news.
"Be quiet. Don't!" I cried angrily, as I sat up. "Hallo! where are the other fellows?" "Dressed and gone down ever so long ago. Didn't you hear the bell?" "No; I've been very sound asleep," I said, beginning to dress hurriedly. "Shall we be late? Oh!" "What's the matter?" "I'd forgotten," I said; for the whole trouble of the previous evening had now come back with a rush.
"Just tell me, then, what harm can a small chap like me do you?" I continued. "How do I know what you've got on board, or what you're going to do with it. Be good-natured fellows now, and if I can ever do you a good turn, I will." "Oh, come, let the little chap alone; there's no harm in him, I'm sure!" exclaimed one of the smugglers, slapping me on the shoulder.
As long as he was amused at her agony, as long as his pleasure in tormenting her was greater than his impatience to be at his ruffianly work. Oh, if she ever needed all her power it would be to-night.
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