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Commissioner McPhee, surrounded by his minions, rode from Diamond Gully that afternoon with one prisoner the man who had been run down, and the crowd that ushered him out bore Aurora Griffiths aloft, and sang a long chant of derision, which, keenly as he felt it, the Serang did not dare resent. NATURALLY, Aurora's popularity was greatly increased, and the tent of Mrs.
"At the Fairy Aurora's is a spring whoever drinks from it will bloom like the rose and the violet. Bring me a jug of the water, and I shall know how to show you my gratitude. It's a difficult task, heaven knows! The Fairy Aurora's kingdom is guarded by all sorts of wild beasts and terrible dragons. But I want to tell you something else, and give you something too."
But "a stern chase is a long chase," and the schooner, while repairing damages, had not only been left astern, but had also been compelled to run a considerable distance to leeward. So that, when the sun set, and the short brilliant tropical twilight faded out of the sky, she was still some six miles distant, broad on the Aurora's lee quarter.
"It is downright beautiful, Miss." "And so expensive," pursued the little girl whose name was Julia, "that I don't think any one else I know is likely to imitate it, which is my greatest comfort!" "Your Julia looks self-satisfied enough," observed Ianthe, "but I do not see that this is more like real happiness than my Aurora's face before the party."
At the same moment some five-and-twenty Frenchmen, armed with cutlass and pistol, scrambled alertly in over the Aurora's bulwarks, the leader singling out George, notwithstanding the darkness, and exclaiming, as he promptly presented a pistol at his head "Vat cheep dis is, eh?" "The Aurora, of London," was the answer, "Tres bien!
Ryder knew now that his life depended upon the boy's fidelity, and that there was only one other person in the world upon whom he could rely in his extremity Jim Done. We left Done in a poor condition to help any man lying in Kyley's tent, enfeebled by sickness, clinging to Aurora's fingers as some sort of anchorage in a fragile world. When he awoke again Aurora was still by his side.
Aurora was drinking her tea, holding her cup like a real lady, with her little finger delicately curled back. Aurora's figure stood out from among those surrounding her like a thing of a different make, an earthen jar among glass vases, a Swede among Japanese.
He had lived, mind you," she emphasized with pride "he had lived a little while, he was all right, perfect in every way a son." His due of tears was not withheld from the wee frustrated god. Aurora gave up talking, so as to have her cry in quietness. Gerald, holding back a sound of distress, twisted on his chair, not daring to recall himself to Aurora's notice either by speaking or touching her.
But Honoré said no, and showed them the danger of such a course. "Suppose I should die suddenly. You might have trouble with my executors." The two beauties assented pensively; but in Aurora's bosom a great throb secretly responded that as for her, in that case, she should have no use for money in a nunnery. "Would not Monsieur at least consent to be their financial adviser?"
On such occasions she flirted audaciously with the miners, and her blood burned in her veins because Done showed no disposition to be moved by it. Tim Carrol imagined himself to be the specially favoured man, and was Aurora's most devoted slave, and the girl played upon his big, affectionate heart, with no object but to awaken in Done a sparkle of the recent fire.
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