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"If he were here, in my place, what would you like to have him do?" "I'd be proud of him if he did just what you're doing, my boy." Tears were in Dick's voice as he said: "Thank you very much, sir," then, turning to Molly, a roguish smile lit up his face as he bowed to her, saying: "Thank you again, Miss Brown-Eyes."
He unstepped the mast and sat down again. "You may unship the rudder, Brown-Eyes, You had better leave the boat to Neal and me to bring up to the cave. Pass the gun forward to me and the powder horn." He loaded, ramming the charge down and pressing down the wad. Neal and the girl sat silent. The solemn enchantment of the scene was on them still. Then the two men took the oars again.
As for poor Brown-eyes, who was a prime favourite with many of her old friends, male and female, before she got away she had been almost crushed out of existence by strong arms, and her eyes might have been pea-green or pink for anything you could tell, so lost were they in the swollen lids.
"Mother! mother! O father!" yelled, rather than spoken. Another moment, and the bald, little old man was wrestling in the ex-queen's arms; the little old lady was engulfed by Dominick and Otto; Dr John Marsh and Brown-eyes stood transfixed and smiling with idiotic joy at the door; while the cat twice its size, with every hair erect glared, and evolved miniature volcanoes in its stomach.
Together the two young men crossed the field and vaulted the wall which separated the manse land from the road. The girl whom her brother called Brown-Eyes waited for them. The name suited her well, and came naturally from Maurice. He was tall and fair, yellow-haired, blue-eyed, large limbed, a fine type of Antrim Irishman, the heir of the form and face of generations of St. Clairs of Dunseveric.
The widow was indeed fond of seeing, as she used to say, "all the fun that was goin'," but on this occasion she consented to carry Brown-eyes out of danger while the settlers moved at a quick step towards the point. Behind that point of rocks a band of savages lay concealed, as Malone had rightly conjectured.
"Is that his filthy tobacco at your feet, Brown-Eyes? Pitch it overboard. "I suppose he's a specimen of the Republican breed. That's what comes of liberty and equality and French Jacobinism and Tom Paine and the Rights of Man. Damned insolence I call it." "I'd like to remind you, young man ." The words came with a quiet drawl from the passenger in the bow.
He was the prey of sheer astonishment, then of a rapture which set his heart beating tumultuously. "You are going with Neal! Nonsense, Brown-Eyes. How can you?" "I've money to pay my passage," she said, "and if I hadn't I'd go just the same. I shall climb up into the brig, and I won't be turned out of her." "You can't," said Maurice. "Oh, but I can, and I will.
So then the birds were all made separate characters by having each a separate name given it. Brown-Eyes, Tip-Top, Singer, Toddy, and Speckle made, as they grew bigger, a very crowded nestful of birds. Now the children had early been taught to say in a little hymn: "Birds in their little nests agree; And 'tie a shameful sight When children of one family Fall out, and chide, and fight;"
"Brown-eyes," she said swiftly, "that feller who sat beside you is he your partner?" "I dunno," said Dan evasively, "why are you askin'?" Her breath was coming audibly as if from excitement. "Have you got a fast hoss?" "There ain't no faster." "Believe me, he can't go none too fast with you tonight. Maybe they're after you, too." "Who?" "I can't tell you. Listen to me, Brown-eyes.
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