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The children searched and searched, and after a long time did actually discover the crooked and badly made bow and the blunt arrow. "Here they is, the darlin's!" cried Diana. "My own bow, my own arrow how I loves 'em! Now, Orion, I is going to shoot you for pwactice, you know, and then you shall shoot me for pwactice too. You stand up there against the twee, and I'll make good shots.
"You ought to remember that you're in the presence of your two 'darlin's. We can't love any one that cusses. You'll be smokin' a pipe or chawin' tobacker next." He chuckled, and then his voice grew hard. "Stop your wigglin', you blasted, livin' scarecrow, or I'll split your head with a rock, and this town will call it good reddance. Roll him over onto his face, Cap'n Sproul."
Suddenly, however, in the midst of quite a merry game of play, the little girl was heard to utter a shout. "Where is my darlin's that I brought from home?" she cried; "my three spiders and my four beetles? I have not given none of 'em their bwekfus. I must wun and fetch 'em.
Instantly every girl in the cook tent, without the formality of asking to be excused, pushed back her chair and dashed out. Mrs. Livingston so far overlooked their breach of etiquette as to rush out with the rest of them. "Come on, darlin's. They've come ashore for us at last. First there, first to go out. Go!"
May the sun shine upon you and grow two heads of cabbage in the same sprout, may the little b'y live long and get him a good wife, and if she ain't good to him may she die from him. May every hair on both your heads turn into a blessed candle to light your ways to heaven, but not yit me darlin's not yit!"
"You promised, and you never broke your word." "I pwomised, and I never break my word," said Diana. "Yes, Orion, yes; we is going away." "I declare," said Aunt Sarah, "I believe it would be the right thing to do. It would kill me if you was killed, missy and them 'orses!" "They is darlin's," interrupted Diana. "Well, go to sleep now, and I'll fetch some supper," said Aunt Sarah.
"We have missed Grannie, haven't we, Ally?" "Don't talk of it," said Alison, tears springing to her blue eyes. "Well, we're all together again now," said Grannie. "Bless the Lord! Set down each side of me, my darlin's, and tell me everything. Oh, I have hungered to know, I have hungered to know." "Mine is a very good place," said Alison. "Mrs. Faulkner is most kind."
"Arrah! come in, me darlin's, and don't let the nagers catch ye!" shrieked Biddy. "What's all that hullabaloo about?" exclaimed one of the figures, approaching, and Hector, and Reginald, and Rob came up to the door. Biddy, however, who had stopped her ears as well as hid her face, still fancied that they were blacks, and continued shrieking as loudly as ever.
"And now, missy, I expect you are called Baby?" "No, I aren't," replied Diana. "I is the gweat Diana; I has got a bow and arrow, and I'll shoot you if you is not kind." "Oh, lor'! Now, missy, you would not be so cruel as that?" "Yes, I would," replied Diana. "See this box in my hand? It's an awfu' pwecious box it has got spiders in it and two beetles. May I put the poor darlin's loose in my room?"
The chaplain and his wife, going earlier in the evening to call and cheer Almira, were met by Katty at the door and the information that "the misthress was dinin' at Mrs. Darlin's." Katty was short with her visitors for two reasons. She didn't approve of the dominie, as he was not of the faith of her Irish fathers, and she did approve of Corporal Lenihan, who had come to spend the evening.
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