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In that case, Arni had at least a trump card in reserve. Did you say something? inquired Jon, sticking a quid of tobacco into his mouth. Or wasn't it meant for my ears? Oh, well, I don't care for your mutterings, you poor wretch. But now, go ask your wife to give me a little drink of sour whey. Arni turned round slowly and lazily. Wasn't the old fellow going to notice the skin?
Before leaving the troops with which he had won the battle of Arni, Clive had expressed, to the two young writers, his high appreciation of their conduct during the siege of Arcot; and promised them that he would make it a personal request, to the authorities at Fort Saint David, that they might be permanently transferred from the civil to the military branch of the service; and such a request, made by him, was certain to be complied with.
This cupboard is kept carefully locked, and Arni carries the key on a string which hangs around his neck. Arni now has become quite prosperous. For a long time it was thought that he must keep money in the cupboard, but last spring an acquaintance of his stopped at the outlying sheepcote on his way from the village. The man had some liquor with him and gave Arni a taste.
And Arni shook himself as if the mental strain of his philosophizing had occasioned in him a slight chill. The road leads from Old Iceland to New Iceland. It is the way of men from the old to the new in the hope that the new will be better than the old.
Howdy, Arni, you poor fish! said Jon, fixing his steely gray eyes on Arni. How are you, you old snake! answered Arni, smiling contemptuously. What monstrous eyes Jon had when he looked at a person! Has something special happened? You're somehow so puffed up today, said Jon with a sarcastic smile. Darn him! muttered Arni. Was he going to act just like Groa?
She disappeared in an instant, and he never saw her afterwards, but heard her voice in the window of his room one night after, requesting him to take care of the children, in these words: "Rhag bod anwyd ar fy mab, Yn rhodd rhowch arno gob ei dad: Rhag bod anwyd ar liw'r cann, Rhoddwch arni bais ei mam." That is,
The delay enabled Riza Sahib, marching down from Vellore, to meet his reinforcements; and when Clive, after a forced march of twenty miles, approached Arni, he found the enemy, composed of three hundred French troops, two thousand five hundred Sepoys, and two thousand horsemen, with four guns, drawn up before it. Seeing their immense superiority in numbers, these advanced to the attack.
Now Samur, he knew how to hold his tongue, faithful creature! Arni sat down on the rock, with the fox on his knees, and started singing to pass the time, allowing his good cheer to ring out as far as his voice would carry: My fine Sunday cap has been carried away By a furious gale; And I'll wear it no more to the chapel to pray In the wind and the hail.
For whom are you keeping the skin, Arni? No one, said Arni, crossly; then after some hesitation: The Lord gave it to me. All right, Arni. Miracles never cease. That is plain enough after this, and no question about it. That's an eighty-crown skin, however you came by it. But now let's go in and see Groa. As you say, I know her pretty well. She was a smart girl, you poor wretch.
A fine judge of such matters you are! And standing up, Arni paced the kitchen floor. An eighty-crown skin! And you call it wretched! Jon of Lon didn't call it any names. You'll believe at least what he says. Now, don't get puffed up. You ought to be thankful to get what you can for the skin. It will help in buying the cow. The cow?
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