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He was my pock-marked friend, who had made such an unpleasant impression on me, at John Saunders's office. He was rather more gentlemanly looking than he had seemed at the first view, and I saw that, though he was a half-breed, the white blood predominated. "I don't want to intrude," he said, "but I have urgent need of getting to Spanish Wells, and there's no boat going that way for a week.
On the day and in the place thus fixed the three hunters opened their chase. They threw off at the Cobbler's stall. They soon caught the same scent which had been followed by the lawyer's clerk. They arrived at Mrs. Saunders's; there the two men would have been at fault like their predecessor. But the female was more astute. To drop the metaphor Mrs.
Had he really any private knowledge of the whereabouts of his alleged ancestral treasure? or was his first authentic hint of its whereabouts derived from the manuscript first overheard while eavesdropping at John Saunders's office, and afterward purloined from John Saunders's verandah?
"Na! ye manna flee to Sandy for a thing, ye are no a bairn, are ye?" Here was a dilemma, the Saunders prop knocked rudely away, and obliged to think for ourselves. But Saunders would come to his distressed master's assistance. He furtively conveyed to him a plump book this was Saunders's manual of faith; the author was Mr. Burke, not Edmund.
"Will you let me go, sir?" said I. "Will you let me see this exchange?" "I fear you will be too late," he answered. "It is not a vital matter, I fancy." "Perhaps to me most vital," said I, and I explained my fears. "Then go, go," he said kindly. He quickly gave directions to have me carried to Admiral Saunders's ship, where the exchange was to be effected, and at the same time a general passport.
"Shall I ask 'em in, Saunders?" queried Overland, his voice edged with a double meaning. "Not on my account," said Saunders over his shoulder. "All right. Let's have a drink, boys." Even "Go-Light" Sago, the vilest of the Gophertown crew, admired Overland's coolness in turning his back on Saunders and facing the bar. For a second Saunders's fingers twitched. He glanced up.
She still thinks you ought to have let her see your last attempt, and left her to decide whether it was good or not." Mrs. Westley showed her amusement at this, but Ludlow answered gravely that there was a certain reason in the position. "If she's disappointed in not having any portrait, though," he added, "she had better take Miss Saunders's." "Do you really mean that?" Mrs.
This was before her pursuit of the two fliers. In the subsequent trial of Captain Fox, the minutes of which the present writer has not seen, it appears, according to the biographer of Lord Hawke, that it was Captain Saunders's and Captain Rodney's "sense of being deserted by Fox, and of the two French ships having escaped through his failure of duty, which forms the chief feature of the Court-Martial.
But the new regiment was breathless with horror. "Gawd! Saunders's got crushed!" whispered the man at the youth's elbow. They shrank back and crouched as if compelled to await a flood. The youth shot a swift glance along the blue ranks of the regiment.
I envy you, old chap, with your care-free life, spent half in the country. How is your plantation?" "Fine never had better crops." Saunders's eyes kindled with latent enthusiasm. "The weather has been just right this season. Run up and spend next Sunday with me. It will do you good. You stay in town too much." Mostyn shrugged his shoulders. He sighed and bowed his head over his papers.
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