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Peters dissented violently from this proposition, and appeared angry with Green for making the assertion. "I see no reason to doubt it," said Green; "I know how our fighting ships, as well as our traders, are manned. I will take my oath that more than two-thirds have run from the British navy, because they were impressed. You yourself have said so in my hearing, Peters look at your crew."
"Perhaps, Miss Haviland," said Peters, stung by the remark and manner of the other, and now rallying for the revenge to which such minds are prone to resort "perhaps Miss Haviland, on a little more reflection, may be willing to acknowledge that I, also, am not wholly without a right to ask for an explanation in an affair which she seems to admit requires one."
This cry came from the summit of the moving mountain, and Dirk Peters was revealed to our sight, standing on the outermost block, his hand stretched towards the north. The half-breed was not mistaken. The land this time yes! it was land! Its distant heights, of a blackish hue, rose within three or four miles of us. 86° 12’ south latitude. 114° 17’ east longitude.
He had impressed me against my will, taken me by surprise, commiseration had been mingled with other feelings that sprang out of the memory of the night I had called on him, when he had been sick. Now I resented something in him which Tom Peters had called "crust." "The law!" I repeated. "Why?"
In this world one should be prepared for everything, or where is one? The best she could do was to stand and stare at the intruder. It would have done Sam Marlowe good he had now finished the synopsis and was skimming through the current instalment if he could have known how she yearned for his return. "I've brought the revolver," said Mr. Peters. "So so I see!" said Billie. Mr.
The card which announced that here was an Egyptian scarab of the reign of Cheops of the Fourth Dynasty, presented by J. Preston Peters, Esquire, still lay on the cabinet in its wonted place; but now its neat lettering was false and misleading. The scarab was gone.
She had time, in that long instant, to feel suddenly that the man of whom, two months earlier, she had a brief distant vision from the roof was now, at his predestined hour, about to reveal himself as not having been Peters; and her spirit sank under the impending fear of the disclosure.
Two or three days afterwards, Charlie Marryat and his friend Peters were sitting beside Doctor Rae, when the latter said: "I hope that we sha'n't find the French in Madras, when we get there." "The French in Madras!" Charlie exclaimed in surprise. "Why, sir, there's no chance of that, is there?" "A very great chance," the doctor said. "Don't you know that they captured the place three years ago?"
"I have been for some time looking out for a companion," she said; "Lady Peters really must live at Verdun Royal a housekeeper is not sufficient for that large establishment it requires more than that. She has consented to make it her home, and I must have some one to be with me." "You have the duke," he put in, wonderingly.
While Peters and his official minion was thus engaged, Tom Dunning was seen coming, with hasty strides, along the road, from the direction of his cabin, which was situated without the village, about a half mile north of the Court House, from which it would have been visible but for the pine thicket by which it was partially enclosed.
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