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They'll come through, I believe it sincerely; and your Chancellor, sweet Princess, will guard you with his life with ten lives, if he had them." "I know that," she murmured, "and shan't worry if you tell me not to." "Then cheer up! Smilax is a past-master of the swamps and woods, take my word for it!"
A want of hardy self-respect, an unwillingness to face with dignity the actual facts and necessities of our situation in life, this, after all, is the worst and most dangerous feature of the case. It is the same sort of pride which makes Smilax think he must hire a waiter in white gloves, and get up a circuitous dinner party on English principles, to entertain a friend from England.
"For God's sake," I whispered but Smilax had turned back to us and was beside her. "Him friend," he said, hurriedly. "Only friend we got! Go with him quick! Me get Echochee!" While saying this he was pushing her up to me, at the same time holding out a bag, or kind of traveling case, that she had dropped. I seized it with one hand, and her arm with the other.
Her eyes were anxious, and I saw how insistent this worry had been. "Everything depends on how far Smilax had to go," I answered. "He'd never dream of coming back until the men gave up and they might chase him half across the state! So a few extra days doesn't mean anything. They can't catch him, that's certain; and he and Echochee'll only stay away as long as they're pursued.
On the other hand, to consider the matter more humanly, there are thousands of delightful men and women going to pieces for the pitiful reason that if they do not keep up with the procession, 'they are left. And they are left in clothes that have no back to them, among mounds of smilax.
Madge peeped out of the doorway, there were so many odd noises in the hall. The upstairs hall was a mass of beautiful evergreens. Men were hanging garlands of smilax on the balusters. The house was heavy with the scent of American Beauty roses. But there was no sign of Mrs. Curtis or of Madeleine or Tom, and still no mention of the bridesmaids' costumes for the girls.
There's an Indian in their crowd, too. If we stay, the fort'll keep them off till night and there's always a hope of Smilax turning up. They mightn't rush us after dark, either." I could see that the fort was our best chance, but still I wanted her opinion. Something about the way she stood, having no word to say, rather awed me, and going softly I looked around at her face.
I Translate, please; I do not understand your pagan rites and ceremonies. HE I was ordered by the office to describe the flowers, and wreaths, and so on, that had been sent to a dead man's funeral. Well, I went to the house. There was no one there to stop me, so I yanked the tinkler pulled the bell and drifted into the room where the corpse lay all among the roses and smilax.
The Smilaceae no doubt abound on the banks of the Rio Negro, the Pacimony, and the Cababury; their roots, macerated in the water, yield an extractive matter, that is brown, bitter, and mucilaginous; but how many tufts of smilax have we seen in places, where the waters were entirely white.
But such is the bitter tithe we must toss into the maw of civilization which, despite its multitude of admitted blessings, breeds also the false! And I stepped into the punt wishing that this daughter of our oldest American family could be divinely appointed arbiter of our customs. Smilax returned with word that both yachts would be at Little Cove, and one by one the lights in our camp went out.
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