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O thou with red eyes, and arms that are mighty and each like unto the trunk of an elephant, it behoveth thee to pardon what I said unto thee from ignorance. And as wonderful and difficult have been the feats achieved by thee before, my fears have been dispelled, and indeed the love I bear to thee is great." Commanded by thee, I would drive thee thither.
I was the only passenger to leave, and no cargo was unloaded nor taken on. She was waiting only for the agent of the company to confer with Captain Leeds, and while these men were conversing on the bridge, and the hawser was being drawn on board, the custom-house officers, much to my disquiet, began to search my trunk.
And so saying she mended her pace; and passing round the end of the lake, walked out upon the peninsula until she stood under the willow. There was no underwood. The tree stood alone upon the very end of the spit of land, and Trüey went close in to its trunk. Here she stopped and looked up among the branches, to ascertain what was causing so much excitement among the birds.
Stein had been gazing in despair at the two huge, misshapen packages which Emma had placed upon the table to be put into her hand-bag. "What have you in that big roll? It is too large to go even into the trunk! What are you thinking about?" she cried. "Oh, mamma, can't they be tied on the outside of the bag? I could carry them all together myself. I do want to take them with me so much.
So the three little gnomes scrambled down from the trunk of the fallen tree and went up to where the little boy had thrown himself upon the ground. They stood about him and watched him, for he had put his face in the crook of his arm and was crying. Finally one of the little gnomes sat down in front of the little boy and spoke to him. "I am lost!" the little boy said.
After all, it was only what she had been expecting. Her chief sensation at that moment was one of surprise that the trunk did not also contain the proceeds of the two other robberies. Probably, however, they would be found in Miss Carson's bedroom.
It was almost dark before they discovered a convenient tree close enough to the water's edge to serve their purpose; for evidently the river during its periodical seasons of flood had torn nearly all growth on the lower banks away. Thad climbed up to this friendly trunk and slipped the cable around its base.
The man to whom I was to give my address was the captain of the peotta. I asked him to recommend me a lodging. "You can come to my house," he said, "if you have no objection to share a large bed with the cook, whose wife remains on board." Unable to devise any better plan, I accepted the offer, and a sailor, carrying my trunk, accompanied me to the dwelling of the honest captain.
His employer's lodgings were in St. Paul's Churchyard. Lancelot set the trunk down inside the door. 'What do you charge? 'Sixpence. Barnakill looked him steadily in the face, gave him the sixpence, went in, and shut the door.
"I should have thought you might have known I could not reach that," I said, looking up at him. "However, I will do my best to accomplish the feat." The quickest way, I thought, would be to build a platform on which to stand whilst cutting out the honey. I accordingly chopped down some stout poles and drove them into the earth, securing cross-pieces with vines to the trunk.
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