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Here is what he wrote to his friend Humphreys a year after his scheme was afoot: "My attention is more immediately engaged in a project which I think big with great political as well as commercial consequences to the States, especially the middle ones;" and then he went on to argue the necessity of fastening the Western States to the Atlantic seaboard and thus thwarting Spain and England.
"'But it is a dark night without, and I fear some mischief is afoot! "'True! But yonder beautcheous gel " Roused by the familiarity of these lines, Emerson looked up from his preoccupation and smiled at Fraser's serious pantomime. "Am I as bad as all that?" he inquired, with an effort at pleasantry. "You're worse, Bo! I guess you didn't know I was here, eh?" "No.
"Sir Henry Clinton will arrive to-morrow, and General Howe will soon be on his way to England," she heard one of them say. "'Tis a pity he cannot capture young Lafayette and take him back to England with him. King George would give him a royal welcome," responded the other. "There is some such plan afoot," declared the first speaker.
Without wasting time Job told them what was afoot and they moved forward up the hill. Once among the trees the attacking party spread out in irregular fan-formation, with Tom and Jeremy scouting a little in advance. The stillness of the woods was almost oppressive as they went forward. All the men seemed to feel it and proceeded with more and more caution.
As a rule the new levies went down into France on troop trains, but this company was part of a draft which for some reason came afoot. Without exception they were young men, husky and hearty and inspired with a beefish joviality at having found a place where they could ease their feet, and rest their legs, and slake their week-old thirst upon their own soothing brews.
They seemed a cross between disguised highwaymen and disguised noblemen. The ancient ferryman looked at them with some suspicion as they entered his boat, asking himself, "What lark is afoot with these young bloods? There's mischief lurking under those beards."
In the conning tower Jack and the professor kept anxious watch, while Mark, Bill and Tom were at the various machines, ready, at the signal, to start the engines. The giants had now become so interested in whatever plan they had afoot, that they paid little attention to the ship.
Panhandle figured, when I seen that only the tracks of three horses showed, I'd think he had turned my hosses loose on the big mesa. He stops, pulls their shoes, sacks their feet, and leads 'em over there. Whoever done it was afoot, and steppin' careful. Hell, I could learn that yella-bellied hoss-thief how to steal hosses right, if I was in the business."
"You must admit, my dear Watson, that the idea of a joke is impossible. There were grave events afoot, as the sequel showed, and the coaxing of Scott Eccles to Wisteria Lodge had some connection with them." "But what possible connection?" "Let us take it link by link.
Now turned Otter to his folk and made them a sign, which they knew well, that they should get down from their horses; and when they were afoot the leaders of tens and hundreds arrayed them, into the wedge-array, with the bowmen on either flank: and Otter smiled as he beheld this adoing and that the Romans meddled not with them, belike because they looked to have them good cheap, since they were but a few wild men.
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