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In the course of three or four months, happening to be at the city of Washington, I again came upon the captain, who was attending the slow adjustment of his affairs with the War Department. I found him quartered with a worthy brother in arms, a major in the army.
She was too sprightly to allow of their walking at a slow pace on her account, but she was very grateful to be talked to, and very willing to talk to any extent: so, when they came to their part of the town, she was more brisk and vivacious than ever. 'Come to my poor place, missus, said Stephen, 'and tak a coop o' tea.
"Oh! my dear." "How shall you treat him?" asked the girl curiously. The old lady bent again over her embroidery. "I think I shall just say nothing. I hope he will ride this afternoon. Will you go with him?" "I think not. He won't want anyone. I know Laurie." The other looked up at her sideways in a questioning way, and Maggie went on with a kind of slow decisiveness. "He will be queer at lunch.
Then she knew that Macleod had moved away from her; and she thought she heard a splash in the water; and then a voice beside her said, "Gertrude, will you not get up? You must let me carry you ashore." And she found herself in his arms carried as lightly as though she had been a young lamb or a fawn from the hills; but she knew from the slow way of his walking that he was going through the sea.
"Curious how people can find entertainment in so slow a game," he said, nodding toward the two colonels. "That same game has been going on for more than a year," said St. Clair, with a slight smile. "It's odd how something always breaks it up. I wonder what it will be this time. But it's an intelligent game, Harry." "I don't think a sport is intellectual, merely because it is slow."
"You're to go down into the town. Walk slow as far as the Last Nugget. Cross the road and come back. Look at every man you meet or see standing by. Don't be in the least frightened. Pearce and Smith will be right behind you. They'd get to you before anything could happen.... Do you understand?" "Yes," replied Joan. Red Pearce stirred uneasily.
"I'm jolly enough here, to be sure, because I can't help it somehow; but at home I'm the most miserable devil on the face of the earth. My father baulks me in everything, and makes me turn hypocrite, and take him in, in all sorts of ways which I hate myself for doing; and yet can't help doing, because he forces me to it. Why does he want to make me live in the same slow way that he does himself?
We gathered about her knees and gazed with wondering eyes, silently into her sad and care-worn face, for even then we had been schooled to recognize and respect the sorrows of a mother. Two weeks before that time, a battle had been fought in which father had been severely wounded. The slow mail of those days had only just brought this sad intelligence.
Of course this was a bother, and the progress he made with his one-handed sculling was slow and laborious; but it was safer than following a lonely road and running the risk of falling in with some of those rebel soldiers whom General Burnside had sent to their homes. Marcy told himself that that was about the worst thing that could have happened to him.
Carter; 'that's why the clothes were stripped off the body, and hidden at the bottom of the stream, where the water seemed deepest; that's why the watch and chain changed hands; that's why the man who came back to this house after the murder was slow to select the key of the desk.
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