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"Run away! Never come back no more! Gone!" A vague idea that had been in Abner's mind since Byers's last visit now took awful shape. Before the unfortunate Byers could collect his senses he felt himself seized in a giant's grasp and forced against the tree. "You coward!" said all that was left of the tolerant Abner his even voice "you hound!
She said, "Arthur Abner's a reader of men: I can trust his word about them." Presently, it is true, she added: "No man's to be relied upon where there's a woman." She refused her implicit trust to saints "if ever a man really was a saint before he was canonized!" Her penetrative instinct of sex kindled the scepticism.
The victim in this case was a young gentlewoman" Abner's lips caressed this taking word "a young gentlewoman from the South. She had come to one of those houses" everybody, with the help of Abner's tone, saw the insolent front of the place "to tell some dialect stories and to sing a few little songs. The mob it was nothing less could hardly be reduced to order.
The sun shone bright on the windows of Lumley's house, but she could hear the crying of Abner's wife, and of old Ezra and Eliza Lumley, when their children were stricken or shamed; when Abel Baragar drew tighter and tighter the chains of the mortgage, which at last made them tenants in the house once their own. Only eight years ago, and all this had happened.
"Some of 'em was even more crazy than that sounds." The inside of the house having been thus thoroughly inspected they explored the yard and the outbuildings. The barn was a large one, with stalls for two horses and a cow and a carriage-room with the remnants of an old-fashioned carryall in it. "This is about the way it used to be in Cap'n Abner's day," said Captain Obed.
We'll go to see your uncle, Toby, and we should be very glad to do so even if we wasn't going for dinner." "Ben an' me will come 'round when it's time to go," said Toby, and then, in a hesitating way, he added, "Abner's out here he's a cripple that lives out to the poor-farm an' he never saw a circus or anything. Can't I bring him in here a minute before you open the show?"
We saw a good deal of these soldiers, and we could tell their officers, commissioned or non-commissioned, by the number of stars or bands on their shoulder-straps. Also, we knew the names of their generals, colonels, and some of their majors or captains. The more important manoeuvers took place a great distance from Abner's Court, but that did not matter.
"To that lot on Main Street that belongs to Abner Payne. Abner has wanted to buy my lot here on the Shore Road for a long time. He knows it'll make a fine site for some rich bigbug's summer 'cottage. He would have bought the house, too, but I think too much of that to sell it. Now Abner's come back with another offer.
She was excited: she treated Arthur Abner's closed-volume reticence as a corroboration of the house-agent's report, and hearing Weyburn speak of his anxiety to see the earl immediately, in order to get release from his duties, proposed a seat in her carriage; for down Steignton way she meant to go, if only as excuse for a view of the old place.
The silence which followed indicated that the hearers did know the Squire well enough to appreciate the force of Abner's remarks, and that the contingencies which they suggested were inducive of serious reflections. It was Jabez Flint, the Tory, who effected a diversion by observing dryly,
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