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Their attention had been keenly, though furtively, concentrated upon Seth, who sat in a corner, apparently half asleep. In fact, having just noticed them, he had closed his eyes as though he were too weary and worn out to talk. Both men curtly acknowledged Barrington's greeting, hardly conscious of the curtness maybe.
Courthorne, Winston fancied, shifted one foot from the stirrup, but then sat still as the farmer held his hand for the girl to mount by, while when she rode away he looked at his companion with a trace of anger as well as irony in his eyes. "Yes," said Winston. "What you heard was correct. Miss Barrington's horse fell lame coming from one of the farms, which accounts for her passing here so late.
The revolt was soon crushed by the military, but not without the loss of life to some of the unhappy men who had been partakers in it. COLLINS' Account of the Colony of New South Wales, p. 415. BARRINGTON'S History of New South Wales, p. 376.
The British wren, for instance, stands in Barrington's table as destitute of both these qualities; the reed sparrow also. Our wren-songs, on the contrary, are gushing and lyrical, and more or less melodious, that of the winter wren being preeminently so. Our sparrows, too, all have sweet, plaintive ditties, with but little sprightliness or compass.
Winston could not trust himself to answer, but walked straight to Barrington's room, and finding the door open, went quietly in. The head of the Silverdale settlement was sitting at a littered table in front of a shaded lamp, and the light that fell upon it showed the care in his face. It grew a trifle grimmer when he saw the younger man. "Will you sit down?" he said.
"Scented danger and gone," said one. Another shook his head and stared into the depths of the wood before him with such a keen pair of eyes that Barrington believed he must be seen. "Not a man to run from danger," he said, "unless mademoiselle were strangely deceived." The remark decided Barrington's course of action.
Barrington's, and the purchases she must make took her far and near. It seemed impossible to get through for the 5.13 train; but she was somewhat astonished to find herself rushing from counter to counter, and eagerly consulting her little watch for fear she should miss it. "But what if I do?" she asked herself.
The desert has been formerly mentioned as occasioned by the almost utter extirpation of the Avari by Charlemain, and was afterwards occupied by the Madschiari or Magiars, the ancestors of the present Hungarians. Forst. Very considerable freedoms have been taken with this sentence; as in Barrington's translation it is quite unintelligible.
"This is a business deal, and if it hadn't suited me I would not have made it." He went out in another few minutes with a little strip of paper, and just before he left the Grange placed it in Maud Barrington's hands. "You will not ask any questions, but if ever Colonel Barrington is not kind to you, you can show him that," he said.
Moreover, Barrington had papers in his possession to prove what his object was in coming to France, and he had already thrown out the suggestion to Latour that his reason in smuggling mademoiselle into Paris might have been a sinister one; and since Latour must have enemies, there would at least be some who would believe Barrington's statement that this deputy was ready to plot on behalf of an aristocrat, that over his wine he had confessed it.
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