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It is evident to the meanest capacity " "Evidently!" whispered Connoway, grinning. " that a dangerous band of smugglers or burglars is in possession of the mansion of Marnhoul, and we must take them to a man!" These words brought about a marked hesitation in the rear ranks, a wavering, and a tendency to slip away through the breach of the broken gate into the road.
He was all tashed with bits of straw and moss clinging to him. His knees too were wet where he had knelt in the marsh, and there was a kind of white shaking terror about the man that impressed every one. For Boyd Connoway had ever been the gayest and most reckless fellow in the parish.
Disputes were, however, naturally somewhat frequent. Jerry or Phil would describe himself as "lying on so many taturs" Mary or Kitty declare that her bedfellow was "pullin' every scrap off of her, that she was!" To quell these domestic brawls Bridget Connoway kept at the head of the middle bed a long peeled willow, which was known as the "Thin One."
Agnes Anne would never be induced to eat a bit of Florrie, though indeed she was very good and sweet, because forsooth she had been used to milk her and give her handfuls of fresh grass. Since then she had never forgiven Boyd Connoway, and had never been able to look upon a gun with any complaisance.
"Pity but it was your head, Boyd Connoway! Come away, child!" cried my grandmother, "quick lest I do that man an injury. He puts me in such a state that I declare to goodness I am thankful I have not a poker in my hand! Now there's your grandfather " But she went no further in the discussion of her own lesser household burden.
And looking more carefully at what I had simply snatched in haste, I saw that I had in my hand the golden-hilted sword of honour which Lalor Maitland had given to the boy Louis to seal their friendship. But immediately a greater wonder oppressed me, and rendered speechless those who now came panting up my uncles and Boyd Connoway.
For Boyd Connoway knew how to wait, and he was waiting now. Hurry was nowhere in Boyd's dictionary. Not that he had ever looked. In a moment we were over the dyke, careless of the stones that we sent trickling down to afflict the toes of those who should come after us. We stood on the top of the mound.
The Cæsars gave to their people "Bread and the circus!" But they did not usually enter the arena themselves save in the case of the incomparable bowman of Rome, and then only when he knew that no one dared stand against him. But Boyd Connoway fought many a losing fight that his small citizens might wriggle with delight on their truckles. "The Christians to the lions!" Yes, that was noble.
Meanwhile Boyd Connoway was in straits. Torn between two emotions, he was pleased for once to have found a means of earning his living and that of his family especially the latter. For his own living was like that of the crows, "got round the country somewhere!"
You'll always find Boyd Connoway in the company of his betters whenever so be he can! "But Dick Wilkes had our 'ben' room, and there were a little, light, active man that came to see him not that I know much of him, save from the sound of voices and my wife Bridget on the watch to keep me in the kitchen, and all that. "But Old Israel would never give up Dick Wilkes.
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