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It was not the first time he had surprised a similar scrutiny on the part of one or the other of the Strikers. Phineas, on being detected, looked away abruptly and mumbled something about "God's country." The young man decided it was time to speak. "By the way you all look at me, Mr. Striker, I am led to suspect that you do not believe I am all I represent myself to be.
But weary as he was, the excited fugitive would pause for neither rest nor refreshment until he had poured out his story of the wrongs, the insults, the threats with which the Neponsets had harassed the Weymouth men in their weakness, in part revenging the foul wrongs they while strong had put upon the savages, until in an Indian council of the day before, it had been formally resolved to wait only for two days' more work upon the boats which Phineas and another were finishing, and then to inaugurate the massacre.
Behind John's house in the orchard were some old slate tombstones, sunken and leaning, which recorded the names of Captain Moses Rice and Phineas Arms, who had been killed by Indians in the last century while at work in the meadow by the river, and who slept there in the hope of the glorious resurrection.
She regarded him shrewdly for a second. "You've changed too." "Maybe," said Phineas. "It's an ill war that blows nobody good. And I'm not complaining of this one. But you were talking of your miscomprehension of Doggie." "I behaved very badly to him," she said, picking again at the blanket. "I misjudged him altogether because I was ignorant of everything everything that matters in life.
"Mademoiselle," said Phineas gallantly, "we would not be such imbeciles." At that moment the voice of Toinette came from within. "Ma'amselle Jeanne! Ma'amselle Jeanne!" "Oui, oui, j'y viens," she cried. "Bon soir, messieurs," and she was gone. Doggie looked into the empty vestibule and smiled at the friendly brandy cask.
"Very grand; but the young trees show the new man. A new man may buy a forest; but he can't get park trees." Phineas, at the moment, was thinking how far all these things which he saw, the mountains stretching everywhere around him, the castle, the lake, the river, the wealth of it all, and, more than the wealth, the nobility of the beauty, might act as temptations to Lady Laura Standish.
Finn," said the Duke, "I feel indebted to you for the trouble you have taken." "It was only a pleasant duty." "I am grateful to you for the manner in which it was performed." This was all the Duke said, and Phineas felt it to be cold. The Duke, in truth, was grateful; but gratitude with him always failed to exhibit itself readily.
There was not a word more spoken between the Duke and Madame Goesler on that afternoon. Phineas did not come till late, till seven, when the banquet was over. I think he was right in this, as the banqueting in tents loses in comfort almost more than it gains in romance.
"We were quite sure of it. Were we not, Violet?" "You always said so, my dear. For myself I do not venture to have an opinion on such matters. Will you always have to go to that big building in the corner, Mr. Finn, and stay there from ten till four? Won't that be a bore?" "We have a half-holiday on Saturday, you know," said Phineas.
You are beginning young, and it is your first adopted career. With me it is otherwise. If by my telling you this I shall have led you astray, I shall regret my openness with you. Could I begin again, I would willingly begin as you began." It was a great day in Killaloe, that on which Mr. Monk arrived with Phineas at the doctor's house.
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