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P.S. He said he would like to hang himself in his sword-belt to the arm of yonder tree and hurl himself from yon topmost pinnakel, so I no he is in luv with you. "Oh, blessed Imp!" "And now where is he?" she demanded. "Lisbeth, I don't know." "You don't know! Then why are you here?" For answer I held out the letter I had found, and watched while she read the words I could not believe.

An' luik weel aboot, Betty, you that can see sae weel, in case there suld be ony cattle aboot; for he's nane o' the cleanest, yon dame! 'I wull do that, mem. 'An' gang direckly, afore he comes back. 'Wha comes back? 'Robert, of course. 'What for that? ''Cause he's comin' wi' 'im. 'What he 's comin' wi' 'im? 'Ca' 't she, gin ye like. It's Shargar.

"Has all your interest in yon vessel ceased?" "Far from it; it is just such a boat as a seaman's eye most loves to study!" "Will you venture to board her?" "At this hour? alone? I know not her commander, or her people." "There are other hours beside this, and a sailor is certain of a frank reception from his messmates."

He whispered his report, and the two consulted together for a moment. Then both went round to the orchard, stole through a gap in the straggling hedge, and came over the grass to the rear of the house. A light shone through the unshuttered window. "Ah!" exclaimed Dan, "this looks more like the home of honest people. Yon thief in front is bolted and barred.

"Not so," said Ebbo; "and I saw thou hadst reason, for the stakes were most maliciously planted, with long branches hid by the current; but the fellows were showing fight, and I could not stay to think then, or I should have seemed to fear them! I can tell you we made them run! But I never meant the grandmother to put yon poor fellow in the dungeon, and use him worse than a dog.

Then the mass divided into two wings and slowly encircled the fence of fire; starting noisily and confidently, and then going more slowly, quietly, warily, as the silence of the flame began to tell on their heated nerves. Strained whispers arose. "Careful there!" "Go on, damn ye!" "There's some one by yon fire." "No, there ain't." "See the bushes move." Bang! bang! bang! "Who's that?" "It's me."

For know that the Cuban authorities are here, and your poor Teresa may soon be hunted down. Even yon humble clerk from my solicitor's office may find himself at any moment the quarry of armed spies. 'A humble clerk! cried Harry, 'why, you told me yourself that he wished to marry you! 'I thought you English like what you call a joke, replied the lady calmly.

Forsooth, I would bathe me in yon cool, sweet water list how it murmureth 'neath the bank yonder. Come then, strip as I do, youth, strip and let us swim together pray you aid me with this lacing." "My lord, I indeed, I do think it unsafe " "Unsafe, boy?" "An our foes should come upon us "

If yon don't, why " "But you know I do love you, John " murmured the girl. "Don't I believe it? Well, if what you say means what it should, you're ready. Here's my hand, and all that it's good for. It can work for you and fight for you, Selina, and it's yours etarnally, with all that I have." The hand of the girl was silently put into that of the speaker.

"Yon Lord Curzon's an impudent birkie," she said, with a rush of tears to her eyes that seemed even to herself an excessive comment on Lord Curzon; then the knock came. "It'll be my old boots back from the mending," she had told herself bitterly, and went to the door like a shrew.