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"Well, my dear fellow," said Hawbury, cheerfully, "how waves the flag now? Are you hauling it down, or are you standing to your guns? Toss over the cigars, and give an account of yourself." "Do you know any thing about law, Hawbury?" was Dacres's answer. "Law?" "Yes." "No, not much. But what in the world makes you ask such a question as that? Law! No not I."
As I emerged from the music saloon after breakfast Cecily had stayed below to look over her hymns and consider with her bishop the possibility of an anthem Dacres's face was the first I saw; it simply illuminated, for me, that portion of the deck. I noticed with pleasure the quick toss of the cigar overboard as he recognized and bore down upon me. We were immense friends; John liked him too.
Two men fell beneath the fierce thrusts of Dacres's knife, and Hawbury tore the rifle from a third. With the clubbed end of this he began dealing blows right and left. The men fell back and leveled their pieces.
If she had not come across his path he might have forgotten all; but she had come, and all was revived. She had come, too, in a shape which was adapted in the highest degree to stimulate all the passion of Dacres's soul young, beautiful, fascinating, elegant, refined, rich, honored, courted, and happy.
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