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Updated: May 2, 2025
Bing out and tour, ye auld devil, and see that nobody has scented; that's a' you're good for now. 'Is that a' I am good for now? said the indignant matron. There was here another laugh at the expense of the hero who had received this amazon's assistance. 'Here, mother, said one of the sailors, 'here's a cup of the right for you, and never mind that bully-huff.
Soon she forgot herself, entered into the spirit of the thing, and exerted every sense to please, so successfully that Mr. Tripp praised her quickness at comprehension, Lucy applauded heartily from a fairy car, and Mr. Sharp popped his head out of a palace window to watch the Amazon's descent from the Mountains of the Moon.
But there is always something new under the sun. "Who ever heard of th' Indian Peru? Or who in venturous vessell measurèd The Amazon's huge river, now found trew? Or fruitfullest Virginia who did ever vew?"
He had discovered by the feel of the flesh he was handling so roughly that it was a woman with whom he was fighting. She took advantage of his hesitation to shake free and roll away. They faced each other on their feet. The man was amazed at the young Amazon's fury. Her eyes were like live coals, flashing at him hatred and defiance.
Why didn't Cap'n Abe stay to home when you come visiting him?" "Why, he had his plans all laid to go away, if Uncle Amazon came." "Ya-as. That's so. You are his niece, too, I s'pose." "Whose niece? Uncle Amazon's? I suppose I am," Louise gayly replied, "though when I came I had no idea there was a second uncle down here on the Cape."
But it is Amazon's work, this, no doubt of it, and the first fine pre-raphaelite picture of battle we have had, profoundly interesting, and showing all manner of illustrative and realistic faculty.
Outside the hotel the Philosopher, looking away from it and from the other great buildings which surrounded us on every side, sent his gaze upward to the starry winter's sky. He drew in deep breaths of the frosty air. "Getting the Amazon out of your blood?" inquired the Skeptic. "Amazon's a mighty good name for it. It thinks it's sophisticated and refined but it isn't.
Louise was unable to shake off the burden of doubt of Cap'n Amazon's character and good intentions. She felt that she could not spend the long evening in his company, and bidding him good-night through the open store door she retired to the upper floor. She felt that sleep was far from her eyelids on this night; therefore she lit a candle and went into the storeroom to get something to read.
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