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His eye, which had been turned inward during his reverie, dullish and somewhat fish-like, now sparkled like a hot coal, and he led the way eagerly. "Pray humor him, sir," said Bayne, compassionately.
Captain Bayne, of the Alfred, lost his life in this his sixth encounter with the enemy; and it is said that he bled to death after his leg was shot off, before he was carried to the cockpit. In the action of this day the Russell had only a small share, as she belonged to the rear division of the fleet, and, being becalmed, could not get up until the enemy had hauled off.
"No, no," said the pacific Bayne, alarmed at the sudden sternness of his tone. "You are as square as a die when you get it all your own way. Why, Mr. Little, Cheetham's bands were taken one day, and, when he had made the men pay their arrears, he was directed where to find the bands; but, meantime, somebody out of trade had found them, and stolen them.
He went in, and there was a lovely girl of eighteen, who looked at him with undisguised curiosity, and addressed him thus: "Sir, is it you that carve wood so beautifully?" Henry blushed, and hesitated; and that made the young lady blush herself a very little, and she said, "I wished to take lessons in carving." Then, as he did not reply, she turned to Mr. Bayne.
We are obliged to part with you." "Cheetham has thrown me over?" "What could he do? I am to ask you to vacate these rooms, that we may get our half-day out of the grinders." Henry turned pale, but there was no help for it. He got up in a very leisurely way; and, while he was putting on his coat, he told Bayne, doggedly, he should expect his month's salary.
"Why, you look all the better." "I'm none the worse, sir." "Come to take your balance and leave me?" This was said half plaintively, half crossly. "If you wish it, sir." "Not I. How is it to be?" "Well, sir, I say to you what you said to me the other day, Stick to me, and I'll stick to you." "I'll stick to you." Bayne held up his hands piteously to them both.
Her lips were trembling; her voice wavered; the apparent shamelessness of my behavior was driving her to the verge of tears. "Is there no place where I am safe from you? Mr. Bayne, how can you? I shan't listen to a single word while you keep your foot in the door!" "And I can't take it away until you listen," I protested. "It is perfectly obvious that if I did, you would shut me out.
Perhaps this had its unnerving influence, though swift and surefooted ordinarily, her ankle turned amidst the gravel shifting beneath her flying steps, and she sank suddenly to the ground, slipped down a precipitous incline, caught herself, half crouching against a gigantic boulder. There was no recourse for Bayne. No one else was within view.
Bayne was appealed to, and confirmed this; and, with great difficulty, they prevailed on Little to remain with them, until the Unions should decide; and to discontinue his visits to the house on the hill in the meantime. I need hardly say they had no idea the house on the hill was "Woodbine Villa."
"This is very strange, Mr. Bayne," she was saying idly. "I understood that you were to drive an ambulance at the Front." How young, how lovely, how glowing she looked as she stood there in her snowy dress. I found myself wondering impersonally what had led her to these devious paths. "So I am," I responded with accentuated coolness.
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