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"Madam, some explanation enough at least to mitigate your resentment natural, I allow." Jolt, jolt! And still a mortuary silence within the coach! It was disconcerting. Robie for a certainty was driving his best, and already we were beyond the last rare outposts of light on the Lothian Road. "I believe, madam, the inside of five minutes if you will allow " I stretched out a protesting hand.
And as well do I remember her impatient and piteous inquiry "Where is my Robie? Oh, where is my son? hae ye no seen him?" It was long before I could compose myself, so as to tell her all that I knew concerning him; and it was even longer before she was sufficiently calm to comprehend me. Never did unhappy parents before experience greater bitterness of soul.
It'll beat the oldest man I wonder where the boys all are to-night? Don't seem to be any one stirring on the street. Ain't frightened out by the cold?" "Shouldn't wonder." Robie was busy at his desk, and not in humor for conversation on reminiscent lines. The two old war-dogs at the board had settled down to one of those long, silent struggles which ensue when two champions meet.
As he bent over and resumed his digging I shook a branch of the beech with both hands and set it swaying. She heard the rustle and glanced up, and, spying me, uttered a gasping little cry. "What ails ye, miss?" Robie straightened himself instanter; but she had whipped right-about face and was gazing towards the kitchen garden "Isn't that a child among the arti the strawberry beds, I mean?"
When he saw the people laughing in the marketplace, and heard that the whole Borders had been aroused by an accidental light upon a hill, his young brow lowered as black as midnight his whole body trembled with a sort of smothered rage and his eyebrows drew together until the shape of a horse-shoe was engraven between them. "Robie, my captain," said I, "wherefore are ye looking sae dour?
I do not believe there is more than three persons in Salem that would be willing to come to this hill at this time of day, and they are here already." And the jailer smiled audibly. "Why, how is that?" "Because they are all so damnably sooperstitious!" replied Robie, with an air of vast superiority. "Ah! is this place then said to be haunted?"
I write this letter to you to go by the first ship in case I should not be able to write later; I do not expect to be able to write to Robie Hepburn nor to Mr.
A witch of the worst kind," replied Robie, with a chuckle. "Now, when I come in here tomorrow morning nae doobt I will find all your chains off. It is just sae with pretty much all the others. I cannot keep them chained, try my best and prettiest." "And Antipas?" "Oh, he will just be like all the rest of them, doobtless. He is a powerful witch, and half a Quaker, besides."
"So be it then, Robie; I honor your feelings! But nevertheless I shall not forget you. And one of these days, if we get off safely, you shall hear from me again about this matter." And then, their plans settled, Robie trudged down to the town; while the young men rode back the way they had come, to Master Putnam's. The Reverend Master Parris Exorcises "Little Witch."
The Salem keeper, Uncle Robie, true to his accustomed plan of action, received Master Raymond very gruffly; but after he had got rid of the other professionals, he had a good long talk, and made his cell quite comfortable for him. He also took him in to visit Antipas, who was delighted to see him, and also to hear that Mistress Dulcibel, was quite comfortably lodged with Keeper Arnold.
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