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Presently a large vessel, with new sails, beautiful white hull, and gracious form, came slowly round a point. She shaded her eyes to look at it. "Why, it's the boat Maitre Ranulph was to launch to-day," she said. Then she stopped suddenly. "Poor Ranulph poor Ro!" she added gently. She knew that he cared for her loved her. Where had he been these weeks past?
"Dis ist charmin' day, frients," said uncle Ro, placing himself coolly on a log of wood that had been hauled for the stove, and wiping his brow. "Vat might you calls dis coontry?" "Dis here?" answered Yop, not without a little contempt. "Dis is York Colony; where you come from to ask sich a question?" "Charmany. Dat ist far off, but a goot coontry; ant dis ist goot coontry too."
He will arrest suspicious persons prowling about the post or camp at any time, all parties to a disorder occurring on or near his post, and all, except authorized persons, who attempt to enter the camp at night, and will turn over ro the corporal of the guard all persons arrested.
Connachar thought to himself that Naois would not come though he should bid him; and the scheme that arose in his mind was to send for his father's brother, Ferchar Mac Ro, and to send him on an embassy to Naois.
Paper and pencil were furnished by Roger, and the story-teller quickly wrote down the following: "After a row the sailors had a row!" "Now read it out loud!" cried Shadow, as he passed the paper to the others. All gazed at it for several seconds. "I pass," remarked Dave, calmly. "Why, that's easy!" cried Phil. "After a ro Say, Shadow, what do you mean, did they quarrel or row the boat first?"
I am afraid even that personage, royal porter as he is, is often out of the way; and the reception he gives when he is there, is not of the most brilliant and princely character. When we had waited three minutes, my uncle Ro said "I am afraid Garry is taking a nap by the kitchen-fire; I'll try him again." Uncle Ro did try again, and, two minutes later, the door opened.
The requiem was chanted, and orations were made in praise of the Duke of Normandy, the King and Conqueror of England, the founder of abbeys, the builder of churches, when suddenly the cry of "Ha Ro!" the Norman appeal for justice was heard, and a man in mean garments stood forth, and spoke thus: "Clerks and Bishops, this ground is mine. Here was my father's hearth.
And yet there is a pleasure in a deal of judgment which your judicious man alone can understand. It is agreeable to see some younkers falling into the same traps which have broken our own shins; and, shipwrecked on the island of our hopes, one likes to mark a vessel go down full in sight. 'Tis demonstration that we are not branded as Cains among the favoured race of man. Then giving advice: that is delicious, and perhaps repays one all. It is a privilege your grey-haired signors solely can enjoy; but young men now-a-days may make some claims to it. And, after all, experience is a thing that all men praise. Bards sing its glories, and proud Philosophy has long elected it her favourite child. 'Tis the 'rò Kax
I shall say as little as possible of the disagreeables of my new trade, therefore, but stick to the essentials. The morning of the day which succeeded that of our arrival at Albany, my uncle Ro and I took our seats in the train, intending to go to Saratoga, viâ Troy.
"It is quite natural, my dear uncle Ro; and I own to the 'soft impeachment' myself. Here have we both been absent from our native land five years, and half that time almost without hearing from it.
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