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No doubt the Mitchells will have some plan in head for making capital out of Gloy's presence in Boden." They chatted in the most friendly manner till they reached Lunda, when they parted with mutual regret and many assurances that they should meet again at no very distant time. The wind was even more favourable for the voyage back, and Yaspard's little boat went swiftly and easily along.
My eyes ran down the columns without my heeding what I read, for my thoughts were busy with Francis. When did he come to the café? How was he living at Düsseldorf? Suddenly, I found myself looking at a name I knew ... it was in the personal paragraphs. "Lieut.-General Count von Boden," the paragraph ran, "Aide-de-Camp to H.M. the Emperor, has been placed on the retired list owing to ill-health.
Boden was his treasurer and confidential friend, from whom he had no secrets; the king has therefore been patient; but his sun is set, of that you may be convinced. The king, though he seems not to notice him, watches him closely; one incautious movement and he will be instantly dismissed. This may happen this very day." "How?" said Pollnitz.
A great deal of time would have been lost if the haaf-boat had carried him into Boden voe, so Tom good-naturedly requested to be put ashore at the nearest point, determined to walk across the island to Moolapund. Tom had declared that he was neither tired nor sleepy, but he was both; and by the time he had walked over a mile of Boden heath he was fain to stop more than once and take a brief rest.
Below it, some scattered woods, inky black, bent under the storm, and the crash and darkness of the lower air threw into clear relief the pallid splendour of the mountain-top. Boden stood enthralled, when a voice said at his elbow: "Yo're oot on a clashy night, Muster Boden!" He turned. Beside him stood the fugitive! grinning weakly. Boden beheld a tottering and ghastly figure.
"May I read it, your majesty?" said Boden. The king nodded, Boden took the paper and glanced hastily over it, while the king folded his arms behind him and walked backwards and forwards. "I find the king wondrously wearisome and patient," murmured Fredersdorf; "it is not his manner generally to withhold so long his crushing glances."
When he left Boden his heart was light within him. He took Mr. Adiesen's insolent note from his pocket and tore it to bits, scattering them on the sea, and saying within himself, "A soft answer turneth away wrath;" then to Yaspard he said, "Now, Sir Viking, for your letter. You want the answer, don't you?" Yaspard and Fred were alone in the boat.
He was there when Yaspard was very small, therefore the boy always associated his hermit-relative with the "haunted" house of Boden; and as he grew older, and the romantic side of his character developed rapidly, he was greatly attracted to Trullyabister and its queer occupants fule-Tammy being, in his way, as mysterious a recluse as his master.
She sat on the floor, with her face against her mother's knee, while the soft, silly voice above her head rambled and rambled on. Tatham rode back to Pengarth. As he approached one of the lodge gates of Duddon, a man came toward him on a bicycle. Boden, hot and dishevelled, dismounted as he saw Tatham. "I thought I should just meet you.
The Shetland ladies of that time were wont to keep "by them" a hoard of "material," seeing that shops were beyond their reach; therefore Miss Adiesen was at no loss to provide a suitable and elegant picnic costume for the darling of Boden; and the result did credit to her taste and ingenuity.
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