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The snow is coming in earnest, and it strikes me they have gone to their account unless they find shelter in a coulée." Then they dismounted, and a hired man, who had lagged behind through indifferent horseflesh and no fault of his own, was despatched to prepare breakfast, and it was a merry party that assembled round the table. Even the ruler of Carrington's grim face relaxed.
Hardly anything could have been more distasteful to Horace Dinsmore than the state of affairs revealed to him by Herbert Carrington's note. He was greatly vexed, not at the lad's manner of preferring his request, but that it should have been made at all.
"I'm dashed!" he muttered, "absolutely jiggered!" All the while he shook his head and slashed with his walking stick through the air. There was no doubt that Mr. Carrington was thoroughly and genuinely puzzled. Carrington's soliloquy was interrupted by the appearance of someone on the pavement ahead of him.
"Not a sound, Colonel Carrington," he muttered under his breath, "as you value your freedom." The tightened grasp instantly relaxed, and Guy turned his head slightly to obtain a clearer view of Oko Sam. This action hastened the climax, for his burnous caught on the button of Colonel Carrington's coat and fell to the ground.
"The clostest shooting rifle you ever sighted eh?" he repeated. "Why, aren't you afraid of it?" "No," said Hannibal scornfully. "But she kicks you some if you don't hold her right." There was a rusty name-plate on the stock of the old sporting rifle; this had caught Carrington's eye. "What's the name here? Oh, Turberville."
She had grown to depend upon him, and she did it with all the blind confidence of youth. To lose him was a serious disaster. She had never before felt the sensation, and she thought it most disagreeable. Her youthful diplomatists and admirers could not at all fill Carrington's place.
"No," replied Elsie, in the same low tone, "I'm sure papa knows best; and besides, I have been naughty, and don't deserve to go, though I should like to, dearly." "Well, good-bye," said Lucy, giving her a kiss. It was not until Mr. Carrington's carriage was fairly on its way down the avenue, that Mr.
Carrington's timely proposal, and much nodding of heads. Plainly, the ladies were minded to start the society forthwith. Unhappily, however, there remained an obstacle to the accomplishment of that desirable end a somewhat general ignorance as to the proper method of procedure. Ruth Howard turned the gaze of her large brown eyes wistfully on Mrs.
How was Sybil to know what was passing in Carrington's mind? He was thinking of nothing in which she supposed herself interested. He was troubled with memories of civil war and of associations still earlier, belonging to an age already vanishing or vanished; but what could she know about civil war who had been almost an infant at the time?
We're all right, came a hoarse reply, and Roy's tall figure rose from close under the opposite rail, and grasping Dimmock, lugged him to his feet. 'Gad, that's done the trick! he panted. 'The other barges are gone. So's the tug. We've bust the whole caboodle. From aft came Captain Carrington's voice, shouting for 'Full speed ahead!
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