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"You will be stronger tomorrow, and then we shall try again," he said, but she neither looked at him nor stirred. When he had undressed her, and laid her in bed, Doss stretched himself across her feet and lay whining softly. So she lay all that morning, and all that afternoon. Again and again Gregory crept close to the bedside and looked at her; but she did not speak to him.
When it came away again there was nought within it. "Doss thou know the country hereabouts, thou good and holy man?" asked Robin, laughing. "Yea, somewhat," answered the other dryly. "And dost thou know of a certain spot called Fountain Abbey?" "Yea, somewhat." "Then perchance thou knowest also of a certain one who goeth by the name of the Curtal Friar of Fountain Abbey." "Yea, somewhat."
Doss growled and showed his little teeth, and tried to rise, but his paw hurt him so he whined. "I'm very tired, Waldo, my boy," said Bonaparte plaintively. Doss showed his little white teeth again. His master went on with his work without looking round. There are some people at whose hands it is best not to look. At last he said: "Come in."
You heard what Doss said about how you looked from the front; and others have got their eyesight as well as him, and can see you are not well and not " "Not fit to sing that's what you are driving at?" Saidie was silent. "I tell you I will sing. Nothing and no one shall stop me. I shall just defy them all, and go on, and there's no law in England to stop me."
To the little tramp the whole thing was a new and entrancing game of make-believe. By evening they had seven-and-sixpence. "Us'll 'ave a fourpenny doss outer this," said Beale. "Swelp me Bob, we'll be ridin' in our own moty afore we know where we are at this rate." "But you said the bed with the green curtains," urged Dickie. "Well, p'rhaps you're right. Lay up for a rainy day, eh?
"Oh, but aren't you making fun?" said Gregory, looking doubtfully from her to the Kaffer herd, who rounded the kopje. "No; I am very serious. He is the most interesting and intelligent thing I can see just now, except, perhaps, Doss. He is profoundly suggestive. Will his race melt away in the heat of a collision with a higher?
Renn Doss, the false friend, saw the danger of the recognition of the firearms by Carline. The savage swing of a half pound of fine shot braided up in a rawhide bag, and a good aim, reduced Carline to an inert figure of a man. "Renn Doss" was Hilt Despard, pirate captain, whose instantaneous action always had served him well in moments of peril.
Around one o'clock we brought up at Thrawl Street, at the lodgings where we were supposed to stop until we were started for home. The place where we were quartered was a typical London doss house. There were forty beds in the room with mine, all of them occupied. All hands were snoring, and the fellow in the next cot was going it with the cut-out wide open, breaking all records.
It seems they were late, and all pretty so-so by the time they reached the Barbican Steps; and, let be that there was no boat for them, the watermen one and all declined to take them off in any such weather. Nothing for it but to doss the night ashore, which they did.
We discuss matters on the doorstep; if he looks ill I have pity on him, and subsidise him. Sometimes his merry look changes to a half-pathetic look, and he goes away to his "doss house," realising that after all his "besting" he might have done better. Some of my friends have crossed the river, but as I think of them they come back and bid me tell their stories.
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