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There were Plunkett's books on the table, but of their owner no signs were to be seen. The Mutual Friend had had the good sense to close the window after he had climbed through it, and Dallas did not suspect what had actually happened. He returned to Vaughan. 'The Mutual isn't in either of the studies, he said.
They had not got far, when Fenton, who was a little ahead, cried out, "A bear! a bear!" and immediately fired. "I missed him," he exclaimed, as Vaughan and Gilbert joined him. "I doubt much whether the animal you saw was a bear," said Vaughan, as they got up to the spot, examining the ground where Fenton declared he had seen the creature.
Many have cleared it like us who were destined never to see it again. Is it, then, an eternal adieu said to one's European friends? You have all passed it. Frobisher, Knight, Barlow, Vaughan, Scroggs, Barentz, Hudson, Blosseville, Franklin, Crozier, Bellot, never to come back to your domestic hearth, and that cape has been really for you the cape of adieus."
We shall have a day with the otter hounds. Colonel Vaughan and Miss Gwenda are coming too, did I tell you?" "No," said Will, "I did not know that. Do they often stay with you?" "No, they have never been here before. They were dining at the Trevors. I included them in the invitation, and they promised to come. Miss Gwenda is a great favourite of mine, and of yours, Will, eh? Am I right?"
They tried to get in amongst the horses again to-night." "Did you hit anyone?" asked Vaughan. "No. I didn't try. I fired into the air to scare them." By this time Yarloo had walked round the horses, turning them towards the middle of the plain, and was squatting down on his haunches, watching. "That's a real good sort of a nigger," said Mick. "He's got more sense than most of them.
Vaughan, and several of the great men of the Commons, and some of them old men, that are come 200 miles, and more, to attend this session-of Parliament; and have been at great charge and disappointments in their other private business; and now all to no purpose, neither to serve their country, content themselves, nor receive any thanks from the King.
The King's Highness seeketh to have intelligence with them, as they conjecture to have them confederate with him; yea, and that against the emperor, if he would anything pretend against the king. Here is the thing which I think feareth the duke. Vaughan to Cromwell: State Papers, Vol VII. pp. 509, 510. Hall, p. 805. State Papers, Vol. VII. p. 512.
His clothes were still lying where he had thrown them, and the boy soon found the tracks of bare feet leading away from the camp into the scrub. Vaughan had gone away to die. Sax listened. The absolute stillness of death was around him on all sides. Not a leaf moved on any of the scraggy mulgas standing near.
Here followed a history of various achievements of Harold, during which Colonel Vaughan vainly endeavoured to catch Freda's eye. She was only too well-disposed to smile at the infatuation of the doating father. 'Here are the children, I think, said Lady Mary. In bounded Harold, and jumped, unbidden, on Freda's lap. 'I ull have some of that and that, said Harold. 'And I will have began Minnie.
In the centre of the quaint old Virginia grave-yard stood two monuments side by side two plain granite shafts exactly alike. On one was inscribed the name Robert Vaughan Fairfax and the year 1864. On the other was the simple and perplexing inscription, "Cahoots." Nothing more.
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