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"Dunkery Beacon," whispered John, so close into my ear, that I felt his lips and teeth ashake; "dursn't fire it now except to show the Doones way home again, since the naight as they went up and throwed the watchmen atop of it. Why, wutt be 'bout, lad? God's sake "
'Now, John, you must start the first thing in the morning, she said, when the others had left the room, but somehow she stuck to the baby, 'to fetch me back my rebel, according to your promise. 'Not so, I replied, misliking the job, 'all I promised was to go, if this house were assured against any onslaught of the Doones.
And perhaps the Doones would let me have her; now that her property was gone. But who shall tell of Annie's grief? The poor little thing would have staked her life upon finding the trinket, in all its beauty, lying under the pannikin. She proudly challenged me to lift it which I had done, long ere that, of course if only I would take the risk of the spell for my incredulity.
This hanging of so many Doones caused some indignation among people who were used to them; and it seemed for a while to check the rest from any spirit of enterprise. And it grieved him more than anything he ever could have imagined, that his duty to his family, and the strong power of his conscience, so totally forbade him to come up and see after me.
Therefore, if I have put it clearly, as I strive to do, you will see that the Doones must repulse at once three simultaneous attacks, from an army numbering in the whole one hundred and thirty-five men, not including the Devonshire officers; fifty men on each side, I mean, and thirty-five at the head of the valley.
"All Doone-town is on fire, on fire!" we heard them shrieking as they went; "a hundred soldiers are burning it, with a dreadful great man at the head of them!" Presently, just as I expected, back came the warriors of the Doones; leaving but two or three at the gate, and burning with wrath to crush under foot the presumptuous clowns in their valley.
But now, what with the fame of the Doones, and my own recollections, and Uncle Ben's insistence, all my attention was called forth, and the end was simple astonishment. The chine of highland, whereon we stood, curved to the right and left of us, keeping about the same elevation, and crowned with trees and brushwood.
Moreover, he had seen a good deal of fighting, not among outlaws, but fine soldiers well skilled in the proper style of it. So that it was impossible for him to think very highly of the Doones. Gentlemen they might be, he said, and therefore by nature well qualified to fight.
Therefore, none of them could complain; and yet they were not satisfied; perhaps for want of complaining. * There are said to be no loach now in Lynn. This proves that John Ridd caught them all. For now the Doones, having driven back, as every one said, five hundred men though not thirty had ever fought with them were in such feather all round the country, that nothing was too good for them.
Being free of my arms again, I touched my hat to Colonel Kirke, as became his rank and experience; but he did not condescend to return my short salutation, having espied in the distance a prisoner, out of whom he might make money. You saved my life from the Doones; and by the mercy of God, I have saved you from a far worse company. Let your sister Annie know it."
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