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I wonder if I couldn't buy Carter's house, and push a gallery through from the top of my stairway." He touched the bell, and lay down again. Martin entered softly, let down the crimson curtains, so as to exclude the vanishing light, and stirred the crimson cannel into a newer radiance. "This weather frets my nerves, Martin. My face aches. Give me the bottle of chloroform in my chamber."
"Once gain the shelter of the woods, however, and we can hide by day and travel at night until we reach the frontier." "How many have we in the garrison?" inquired Trusia, who had instinctively placed herself at Carter's side. "Half a platoon of cavalry," replied Sobieska gravely, thinking of the meagreness of their force for the occasion. "One more," said Muhlen-Sarkey entering the room.
Understand, I don't blame you in the least it's that idiotic revolution that spoiled our business. I can't understand those people. Lord! You did splendidly, under the circumstances." "They have reason enough to revolt oppression, tyranny, corruption." O'Reilly mumbled the familiar words in a numb paralysis at Mr. Carter's jovial familiarity.
To see me stagger out of my perfectly nice bed at six o'clock every morning now would wring the sternest heart with compassion and admiration at my faithfulness to whom? Yes, it was the day after poor Mr. Carter's funeral that Aunt Adeline moved up here into my house and settled herself in the big south room across the hall from mine.
Hamilton first instead of Widow Carter's young one, why, I should have been as good as you no, not as good as you, for you don't know enough to be bad but as good as Mag, who, in my opinion, has the right kind of goodness, for all I used to hate her so." "Hate Margaret!" said Carrie, opening her eyes to their utmost extent. "What did you hate Margaret for?"
His breath was coming thickly but there was no fear in the eyes of old Bob Carter's boy. Douglass looked at him with apathetic wonder. "I've lost her!" he answered dully. Carter looked at him with impatient amazement, mingled with suspicion. Was the man crazy, or was this only a weak attempt at evasion? He was going to know and that without any more foolishness.
Stella was mildly pleased at the prospect of a row, and walked demurely by Carter's side, while the other two ran on ahead and reached the boathouse first. As the door was locked, and they could not open it, Marjorie, who was all impatience to see the boat, proposed that they climb in the window.
What, therefore, with Carter's commands, the seaman's calls, and the violent flinging down of ropes upon the deck, there was a very considerable uproar going on upon deck, and I was not at all surprised when the general, clad in a dressing- gown, emerged from below with his sword in one hand and his pistol in the other, to enquire what all the racket was about.
Because we knew not with certainty the temper of the country, it seem'd best to choose this second course: so we fetch'd around by certain barren meadows, and thought ourselves lucky to hit on a road that, by the size, must be the one we sought, and a tavern with a wide yard before it and a carter's van standing at the entrance, not three gunshots from the town walls.
"Come, Stacy," said Barker, "I've only invested in shares and stocks like everybody else, and then only on the best advice I could get: like Van Loo's, for instance, that man who was here just now, the new manager of the Empire Ditch Company; and Carter's, my own Kitty's father.
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