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When she brought up the subject, he answered impatiently that he did not intend to go. His grandmother heard the remark, and made an especial request that he would change that decision and accompany them. Bertha added her entreaties; but Maurice seemed inclined to rebel, until she whispered, "If you stay at home, my aunt will say it is Madeleine's fault, and she will be vexed with her again.
The next morning the passengers came straggling into the breakfast-room, some looking very pale and wearied; but the elder Miss Elon came tripping down the stairs like a sparrow. While she and Fred were at the table her sister and Evelyn came in together. Fred sprang up to accompany them to seats. "How are you feeling, dear?" Fred inquired.
You will be perfectly safe if you elect to stay there, safe for the rest of your days." "You seem very anxious to get rid of us and bury us at the back of beyond," I said, nettled and unable to conceal my chagrin at the matter-of-fact way in which he wished to dispose of us. "I venture to hope I may be permitted to accompany you, and remain with you "
We must accompany you for some time, for Nunez will move heaven and earth to get us assassinated, and all we want is that you shall obtain permission for us to sleep in the guard-room, so as to be under shelter of French bayonets until we can decide upon our course of action."
If you boys can make some sort of stretcher for carrying Walter I'll see that he gets home to-day, if I have to accompany him, and then come back again to you." This cheered the stricken lad as nothing else could have done. Home just then had a most alluring look to Walter.
"I wish," said Barney in a tone of entreaty, "that you would forgive and forget my foolish words, and then let me accompany you to the end of your journey." "Whither were you bound when I became the means of wrecking your motor car?" asked the girl. "To the Old Forest," replied Barney.
"I'll hurry all the way, Winifred; and Gilbert will come back as fast as he can," she called as she started to run down the hill. "I wish we had brought Hero," thought Ruth regretfully as she hurried down the shadowy road, "then he could have come with me for company." For at the last moment before leaving home the little girls had decided that it was not best to let Hero accompany them.
Courtecuisse and Vaudoyer had brought their guns to accompany the bride. The neighborhood was otherwise fast asleep; not a light was to be seen; none but the wedding party were awake, but they made noise enough. In the midst of it the old Bonnebault woman entered, and every one looked at her. "I think she is going to lie-in," she whispered in Tonsard's ear.
"I have never been otherwise than sincere with you," Frederic said, honestly; "I had thought of going to the levee alone, as a possible method of whiling away an idle evening. If you will allow me to accompany you thither, I shall be gratified shall derive actual pleasure from the motley scene.
"An important thing, truly, this eruption! I trouble myself very little about it." Whatever might be the sailor's opinion, the expedition projected by the engineer was settled for the next day. Herbert wished to accompany Cyrus Harding, but he would not vex Pencroft by his absence.
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