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I say, who knows bur it may be so!" The company bowed graciously as who should say, "Well-turned phrases, Senor well-turned." "And amigos, if so be that such is their approoching fate, I will say:" He lifted his glass, and the rest did the same. "I say, I will say to them, Creoles, countrymen, and lovers, boun voyadge an' good luck to ye's."
The mother never before had noted what a frail and dangerous thing a canoe is. So Henry was embraced, Rolf was hand-shaken, Quonab was nodded at, Skookum was wisely let alone, and the trim canoe swung from the dock. Amid hearty cheers, farewells, and "God speed ye's" it breasted the flood for the North.
"It's my opeenion," said Leeby, returning excitedly from the corner, "'at the lad Wilkie's no to be preachin' the morn, after a'. When I gangs to the corner, at ony rate, what think ye's the first thing I see but the minister an' Sam'l Duthie meetin' face to face? Ay, weel, it's gospel am tellin' ye when I say as Sam'l flung back his head an' walkit richt by the minister!"
"Listen, sir! Listen, all of ye's! D'ye hear that? and that? And there now! Oh, Holy Mother of God! isn't that music? Thim's the thrumpets of 'K' throop!" Ay. Out along the crests of the winding cañon the rifles are ringing again. The cheers of troopers, bounding like goats up the rocky sides, are answered by clatter of hoof and snort of excited steeds in the rocky depths below.
The true epics of the world are generally told in the baldest prose. "There was one thing I didn't like," continued the man, gathering up his reins, "and I've thought I ought to speak of it to ye or ye's father. All his talk was about savin' yerself, and not a whisper of the ould gentleman, who has been so kind to him all his life. It sounded kinder onnatteral like."
'No, no, not that, she protested, 'but but 'But what then? 'Ye must not do it, Mr. Garstin ... I must just bear my own trouble the best I can she broke out. 'D'ye fancy I'm takin' ye oot of charity? Ye little reckon the sort o' stuff my love for ye's made of. Nay, Miss Rosa, but ye canna draw back noo. 'But ye cannot do it, Mr. Garstin.
Ike turned to go, but lingered, and finally stammered: "I hope, sir, ye don't take it that I'm askin' a charity; I make bold to believe I could be worth to ye's much's my keepin'; I'm considerable handy 'bout a good many things, an' I can do a day's mowin' yet with any man in the parish, I don't care who he is.
"Ye's are right," replied Terry, to whom it seemed that no athletic feat was impossible for the Shawanoe; "nayther yersilf nor mesilf have a right to be mintioned in the same day with him." It seemed to strike all three of the friends at the same moment that they had shown a strange forgetfulness of the occasion.
But the tears would not stay long away, and as the memory of her loss came from her from time to time, she burst forth in a bewailing strain to her kind benefactor, "Ye's too good to me, sir, and it's thankful to ye I am for it all; but it's my own husband that's taken suddenly from me, and ye'll not be minding the grief."
"Yes," said Noll, feeling at that moment as if there wore never truer words spoken. "An' you's come down to lib wid yer Uncle Dick?" "Yes." "Well, bress de Lord fur dat!" said Hagar, joyfully; "couldn't a better ting happened to dat yer man, nohow. Jes' what he wants, a boy like yerself, wid yer own father's face. An' did Mas'r Dick know ye's comin'?"
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