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'If you're in arnest, you see, my lad, said the Captain, 'you're a object of clemency, and clemency is the brightest jewel in the crown of a Briton's head, for which you'll overhaul the constitution as laid down in Rule Britannia, and, when found, that is the charter as them garden angels was a singing of, so many times over. Stand by! This here proposal o' you'rn takes me a little aback.
"I begood in joke; but faix they took me up in arnest, an' run up the price to twinty dollars four pounds, as sure as me name's Larry before I know'd where I wos. I belave I could ha' got forty for it, but I hadn't the heart to ax more, for it wasn't worth a brass button." "You've made a most successful beginning, Larry. Have you any more knives like that one?" "Sorrow a wan more's the pity.
Relieved in mind, Marston commenced looking over some papers in reference to matters of business then on hand, and was soon so much absorbed in them, that the subject which had lately filled his thoughts faded entirely therefrom. Some one opened the door, and he turned to see who was entering. In an instant he was on his feet. It was Arnest.
"Now, Herbert," he began, "ease yerself a bit, for ye have had a tough pull and it's good seven miles to the rapids. The fire is sartinly comin' in arnest, but the river runs nigh onto straight till ye git within sight of 'em, and I think we will beat it. I didn't feel sartin that ye had got the pups, Herbert, for I could see by the signs that ye wouldn't have any time to spare.
They were in arnest and no mistake; they'd got steam up and was determined to finish with us at once, whatever it cost 'em." The instant the attack had ceased Cameron had hastened to the hut where the girls were lying, to assure them that all danger was over and that the Indians were entirely defeated.
"Would that its contents could be as easily obliterated from your memory!" he added, in a most earnest voice. "They are no longer there, my friend," returned Marston, with visible emotion, now grasping the hand of Arnest. "You have wiped them out."
"Why thin, Feemy, is it yer own self in arnest come back again? And where's yer lover? the man ye married, ye know what war his name? why don't ye tell me? Mary, what's the name of the Captain Feemy married?" "Asy, sir, asy; come in thin," and Mary led him into his own room, and Feemy followed in silence with her eyes already filled with tears. "Where's yer own husband thin, Feemy dear?
"Here 's news come that the British fleet of mor'n a hundred sail is arrived inside o' Sandy Hook, an' all the Jersey militia hez been ordered out, an' here 's a whole regiment o' Pennsylvania 'Sociators on theer way tew Amboy tew help us fight 'em, an' more comin'; an' as if everythin' was tew happen all tew once, here 's Congress gone an' took John Bull by the horns in real arnest."
"It's my opinion," said Smallbones, "that he must be in real arnest, otherwise he would not ha' come for to go for to give me a glass of grog there's no gammon in that; and such a real stiff 'un too," continued Smallbones, who licked his lips at the bare remembrance of the unusual luxury. "True," said Short. "It beats my comprehension altogether out of nothing," observed Spurey.
"It's my opinion," said Smallbones, "that he must be in real arnest, otherwise he would not ha' come for to go for to give me a glass of grog there's no gammon in that; and such a real stiff 'un too," continued Smallbones, who licked his lips at the bare remembrance of the unusual luxury. "True," said Short. "It beats my comprehension altogether out of nothing," observed Spurey.
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