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"You mean that it wasn't good for us for them to know," Burton corrected gently. Mr. Waddington laughed. He had a large amount of easy good-humor and he was always ready to laugh. "You haven't lost your wits, I see," he declared. "What was it? Did you by any chance get religion, Burton?" The young man shook his head. "Not particularly, sir," he replied. "By the bye, you owe me four days' money.
I had gone with some of my friends to great fishing party at the entrance of the bay, which, by the bye, is one of the finest in the world, being twenty-four miles in length and eighteen in breadth. The missionary, Padre Marini, not being very well, had an idea that the sea-air would do him good, and joined our company.
They had started from slinking men, whistling and signing to one another at bye corners, or running away at full speed. Though everywhere the leader and the guide, Little Dorrit, happy for once in her youthful appearance, feigned to cling to and rely upon Maggy.
"By the bye, I suppose you saw the poor dear little soul is deaf and dumb," young Thorpe continued. "She's been so from a child. Some accident; a fall, I believe. But it don't affect her spirits a bit. She's as happy as the day is long that's one comfort." "Deaf and dumb! So like her, it was a'most as awful as seeing the dead come to life again.
Brian Sotherst, who had escaped from his engagement in time, he thought, to come and wish you good night, must have walked in and found him there. By the bye, how would Captain Sotherst get in?" "He had a key," the girl answered. "My mother lives here with me, and we have only one maid. It was more convenient. I gave him one washed in gold for a birthday present only a few days ago."
With a hurried, though cheerful, 'good bye, mother, she leaped into the coach and was gone. The two children were brought home to me; and as day after day passed and no favorable intimation reached us respecting the sick child, I had ample opportunity to see how she resorted to her old refuge, prayer.
In the fire-lighted woods and on the ground yet stained by the red of battle, it played quaint old tunes, waltzes and polkas and roundelays, and once more the stalwart Pierres and Raouls and Luciens and Etiennes, clasping one another in their arms, whirled in wild dances before the fires. The heavy clouds opened bye and bye, and then all save the sentinels fled to shelter.
By and bye we reached the last slopes up to the mesa, green, with yellow crags and cliffs, and here and there blazing maples to remind me again that autumn was at hand. At last we surmounted the rim, from which I saw a scene that defied words. It was different from any I had seen before. Black timber as far as eye could see!
When we were about ready to mount our horses and had shaken hands with Uncle Kit and the balance of the company, the Indians made a rush for us. Both bucks and squaws shouted, "Ideose, ideose," which means, "good bye, good bye," and every one trying to shake our hands at once, and of all the noise I ever heard, this was the worst.
"Ab um here, sar keep im warm," replied the woman, pointing to a roll of blanket, in which the little creature was enveloped. "Let us see him, Mattee." "No, sar, too cold yet bye bye, massa, see um; make very fine sleep now. Suppose white piccaninny, suppose black piccaninny all same, like plenty sleep. Um know very well, hab plenty work to do bye and bye sleep all dey can, when lilly."
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