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Green seven dollars and a half for the board of the firm, and Ben's proposition was unanimously adopted that they pay four dollars of that amount in advance, retaining the eighty-three cents as a working capital for their business the next day. There was no attempt made to put on any better appearance than usual when they started for Mrs.
And indeed, Ben's usefulness was freely acknowledged by both staff and patients; for by day or by night he was ever ready to skip off on errands of mercy, his wooden leg clicking a vigorous tattoo to his rapid movements. He was especially proud of that wooden leg, a combination of joints and springs so wonderful that he was often heard to lament the clumsiness of the other leg in comparison.
And though Martha and Ben's friends and neighbors were rough and illiterate, they sang the songs of Zion, and spoke the language of the redeemed, and they gathered round the happy son and mother with the unselfish sympathy of the sons and daughters of God. Truly, as the rector said, when speaking of the meeting, "There is something very humanizing in Methodism."
Influenced by Ben's zeal, I had been induced to undertake the pursuit; but I now began to repent having yielded to it. At length Halliday cried out, "Charlie, I can do no more!" and sank on the ground. So I called to Ben to stop, and we threw ourselves down by our companion's side.
The Arabs, being thus deceived, believed that there was no necessity for watching him, and gave him over without hesitation into Ben's charge. Now, as I had left the camp secretly, it was not known by the people generally, and especially by the women, that I was absent, and Ben calculated rightly that Boxall would be mistaken for me.
The distance was about a mile, but in the city there is so much always to be seen that one does not think of distance. Conrad, who was very curious to ascertain Ben's status in the household, lost no time in making inquiries. "What does my aunt find for you to do?" he asked. It may be remarked, by the way, that no such relationship ever existed between them, but Mrs.
'Kit is assiduously fastening Ben's blinkers, Potts remarked. He explained to the incomprehensible lady he fancied he had somewhere seen, that the battle might be known as near the finish by the behaviour on board Lord Brailstone's coach. 'It's like Foreign Affairs and the Stock Exchange, he said to the more intelligent males.
If you do, I will disown you! I will never forgive you never! never!" But, unheeding, the girl was already back, and looking into Ben's face. Her eyes were very bright, and there was about her a suppressed excitement that the other did not clearly understand. "I am ready," she said, "on one condition." Blair's blue eyes looked a question.
She looked at her mother, and as the clock struck she said steadily, "I wish that Ben's neck was all right again." Nobody heard her, for at that moment Ben Sykes started up, saying: "I'm all right, and I have had enough. Come along home!" And he dragged his family away with him. Carrie fell into her mother's arms.
"In very truth ye are, lad, to escape from such a big bunch o' Redskins without a scratch; why " "Pooh!" interrupted the sailor, "that's not the luck I'm thinkin' of. Havin' overhauled Roarin' Bull an' his little girl in time to help rescue them, that's what I call luck d'ee see?" "Yes, I see," was Hunky Ben's laconic reply.
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