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Jo caught up some food from the table, a little bottle of brandy from the medicine-closet, took a lantern, and bidding Jack and Emil come with her, and the rest not stir, she trotted away on Toby, never stopping for hat or shawl. She heard some one running after her, but said not a word till, as she paused to call and listen, the light of her lantern shone on Dan's face. "You here!
And then again, unless the great event came about inside of fifteen or twenty minutes surely Jack would be unable to get the kind of picture on which his heart was set. Then Toby fell rigid, and stared again through his peephole. The men were hurrying away from the vicinity of the derrick now!
Toby too if indeed he had ever voluntarily deserted me must have effected this flight by the sea; and now that I was drawing near to it myself, I indulged in hopes which I had never felt before. It was evident that a boat had entered the bay, and I saw little reason to doubt the truth of the report that it had brought my companion.
Bunny walked gravely along, leading his horse. Toby moved lightly beside him. Behind them the silence closed like the soft folds of a curtain, but it was not a silence devoid of life. As they drew away from the place, a man stepped out from the larches and stood motionless, watching them. A whimsical smile that was not without bitterness hovered about his mouth.
Happily for them both, at this moment some officers of the Court came on the scene, and stopped the intended duel. Viola gladly made off with what speed she might, while Sir Toby called after her "A very paltry boy, and more a coward than a hare!"
'Here, said Toby, as the young Jew placed some fragments of food, and a bottle upon the table, 'Success to the crack! He rose to honour the toast; and, carefully depositing his empty pipe in a corner, advanced to the table, filled a glass with spirits, and drank off its contents. Mr. Sikes did the same. 'A drain for the boy, said Toby, half-filling a wine-glass. 'Down with it, innocence.
He set her free. "You must look your best tonight. Wear blue! It is your colour. I shall present Spentoli to you. And tomorrow he will want to paint you." Toby stiffened. "That canaille!" she said. He looked at her in surprise. "What is the matter with you tonight, Nonette? You are hating all the world." Her blue eyes blazed. "I don't want to meet Spentoli," she said. "He has an evil eye.
"She's fit for 'em, sir," Toby pleaded. "She's good, clean into the middle of her heart." "I'm sure of it," Douglas answered. "I've heard how some church folks feels towards us circus people, sir, and I jes' wanted ye to know that there ain't finer families, or better mothers or fathers or grandfathers or grandmothers anywhere than we got among us.
What's the matter, Toby; seen another sea serpent have you; or is it a hippopotamus this time; perhaps a twenty foot alligator. Here, give one of your whistles, and get a grip on yourself, Toby!"
When the weather's nasty with snow or high winds and frost, or when the goin' is soft, 'tis hard cruisin' with dogs." When Skipper Zeb returned at one o'clock with Mrs. Twig and Violet, and the cargo from the wrecked boat, Toby and Charley had a pot of grouse stewing upon the stove and ready for the dumplings which Mrs. Twig quickly prepared.
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