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The devil had taken him, they said; the more betoken, he had drunk late the night before." Dick followed the man with black forebodings. From the battlements nothing further was observed. The sun journeyed westward, and at last went down; but, to the eyes of all these eager sentinels, no living thing appeared in the neighbourhood of Tunstall House.
There is a vague menace in them. They betoken to all the labouring people that their old home is no longer quite at their own disposal, but is at the mercy of a new class who would willingly see their departure. Perhaps the majority do not feel themselves personally threatened; nevertheless, the situation is disquieting for all.
Ahead of us, one after another, rose high on the southern horizon banks of gray cloud, from under each of which, as we neared it, descended the shoulder of a mighty mountain, dim and gray. Nearer still the gray changed to purple; lowlands rose out of the sea, sloping upwards with those grand and simple concave curves which betoken, almost always, volcanic land.
"Yes, yes, I remember, I heard the story," said Peter. "She and Mr. Forsyth got lost." "Axin' your pardin, sorr, she didn't. Mr. Forsyth loid. Loid like an officer and a jintleman as he is, God bless him to save a leddy, more betoken your sister, sorr. They never got lost, sorr.
BEEF. Good beef has an open grain, and a tender, oily smoothness; a pleasant carnation color, and clear white suet, betoken good meat; yellow suet is not so good. PORK. If young, the lean will break in pinching, and if you nip the skin with your nails, it will make a dent; the fat will be soft and pulpy, like lard.
The shafts of light cast forward cut the darkness like fiery swords. The fugitives paused, bewildered. What did this new circumstance betoken? "What do you make her out to be, Pete?" asked Jack. "Why, boy, if it warn't thet we're down in such a benighted part of ther country, I should say that yonder was a gasoline gig." "An automobile!" exclaimed Walt. "It does look like one, for a fact."
Within the forecastle only three of the bunks contained mattresses and blankets, and there was no heave and sway under him to betoken a ship under sail in a seaway. Slowly the sailor within him asserted itself. "This hooker's at anchor!" By degrees he began to account for himself. Recollection returned: he had waked in a bare and bedless bunk, but it was at Tom Mowbray's he had fallen asleep.
It has been said that the outward aspect of their dwelling was respectable, and in that regard was not greatly at variance, except in size, with the surrounding habitations. Within, however, there were apartments furnished and adorned in such a manner as to betoken the character and tastes of the inmates.
A few small houses, scattered on either side of the road, betoken the entrance to some town or village.
'Yes, said Margaret, 'I thought you knew that only goes to the direct heir of old Sir Hugh. But you must drop the "captain" at least. You will sell out at once? He patiently endured the conversation on the extent and beauty of Redclyffe, wearing all the time a stern, resolute aspect, that his sister knew to betoken great unhappiness.
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