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"'Tis as it was when the country was first settled," remarked Nurse Johnson. "Only then, 'twas fear of the savages, and now " "'Tis of a foe no less savage, Hannah," completed her sister. "The long years of warfare have rendered the enemy cruel and pitiless in the extreme." "'Tis as bad here as on the frontiers," commented Peggy.
I used to think she was making an invocation to the goddess of Memory. "'Twas forty years ago," she began musingly, "and the way of it was this. Our church was considerably out o' fix. It needed a new roof. Some o' the winder lights was out, and the floor was as bare as your hand, and always had been.
'Twas a fair sunset, with one star shining, and I stood in the copse far from the house, to hear the nightingale; and, though I thought of him, did not see that he leaned against the King's Beech, until he stirred and made my heart to flutter.
He told me too, that though he had carried his addresses to me with all the privacy that was possible, because he saw I liked it best, and that 'twas partly his own humour too, yet she had discovered it, and could tell that there had been such a thing, and that it was broke off again, she knew not why; which certainly was a lie, as well as the other, for I do not think she ever heard there was such a one in the world as
One who knows her well old Sir Chris Crowell says she hath never fallen in a swoon before since she was born. Gad! 'twas a strange sight 'twas so sudden." He had just finished speaking, and was filling his glass again, when a man strode into the room in such haste that all turned to glance at him. He was in riding-dress, and was flushed and excited, and smiling as if to himself.
"Good night, Kenny," she said shyly. "I hope you find your star." "I did," said Kenny. "'Twas hiding in a cabin. Good night, dear." Hughie met him at the door. "He's been askin' for you, Mr. O'Neill," he said. "And he hasn't drank a drop all evening." "I shan't go," said Kenny. "Depend upon it, Hughie, it's another trick." "I don't know," said Hughie hopelessly. "It may be.
And how do you thank me? I'm to suppose ye quarrel wi' her like the dour-faced imp o' Sawtan that ye are, and presently ye come raging out, swearing most shamefully at a man old enough to be your father!" 'Twas far enough in the retrospect now so that I could smile at it. Yet I would not suffer him to bluster me aside. "It was an ill thing for you to do, none the less, Mr.
"'Twas that there Diggle as was the why and wherefore o' this little ornament, sir, and 'twas only right he should be paid for what he done. We fell down, him and me; I was under. He hoisted himself on his hands to get free, and I lifted my hook, sir, and caught him a blow under the chin.
"I must have dreamed the whole thing," he said; and satisfied himself with that explanation. He made a verse about it as he trudged home through the woods, and went crooning: At dawn in the hollow, beside the stream, I hid the deer I killed in the dream; At eve I sought for it far and near; And found 'twas a dream that I killed the deer.
They made no attack where there was any body of the Prince's men together, but contented themselves with sabering such unfortunate people as fell in his way single and disarmed." "If he did less at Culloden than was expected from him," adds this partial, but honest follower, "'twas only because he had formerly done more than could be expected."
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