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"But why are you going? Don't go. Stay and have another cup of tea." The fact that Stephen Arnold and Duff Lindsay had spent the same terms at New College, and now found themselves again together in the social poverty of the Indian capital, would not necessarily explain their walking in company through the early dusk of a December evening in Bentinck Street.
"Why, of course," said Mr. Howland, "you married men won't be called upon. You must be reasonable. For instance you, Mr. Duff, cannot leave your wife." But Duff had recovered himself. "My wife, sir? My wife would despise me if I stayed up here. Sir, my wife will buckle on my belt and spurs and send me off to the war," cried Duff in a voice that shook as he spoke.
"I should think there's not another face living, that bears a resemblance to Fred Massingbird's," observed Lionel. "How have you heard this?" "The first to tell me of it was old Matthew Frost. He saw him plainly, believing it to be Frederick Massingbird's spirit although he had never believed in spirits before. Dan Duff holds to it that he saw it; and now Alice Hook; besides others.
Duff and the chief began a laborious trade for meat and vegetables that lasted for an hour or more, and was carried on principally by signs and gestures. Some red blankets, beads, and cheap hand mirrors constituted the offers on the part of the mate. In this way several bushels of potatoes and a lot of green corn were secured and placed by the natives in the yawl.
For we had not gone far ere, timidly, a door opened and a mild-visaged man, in the simple workaday smock that the French wore, stood, hesitating, on the steps. The odd thing was that he should have bowed to Clark, who was dressed no differently from Bowman and Harrod and Duff; and the man's voice trembled piteously as he spoke.
"What right had you," exclaimed Duff Salter, rather angrily, "to maintain a whole family on the servitude of your young body, wearing its roundness down to bone, exciting your nervous system, and inviting premature age upon a nature created for a longer girlhood, and for the solace of love?" She did not feel the anger in his tones; it seemed like protection, for which she had hungered.
"I have not had such a delightful evening, Mr. Dunbar, for years," said Duff, when they had finished making the round of the garden. "I have heard about your garden, but I had no idea that it held such a wealth and variety of treasures. I had something of a garden myself in the old country, but here there is no time apparently for anything but cattle and horses and money.
You quiet Hazelton and I'll attend to Reade." The two scoundrels crept up behind their victims. A moment later Duff quickly cut the lariat about the neck of Tom Reade, who had been rendered unconscious from the terrific blow dealt him by the gambler. Ashby had been equally successful in "quieting" Hazelton. "Now hustle," ordered Duff. "You pick up Hazelton. I'll take Reade.
Carey, himself of peasant extraction, cared for the millions of the people above all; but his work in the classical as well as the vernacular languages was equally addressed to their twenty thousand landlords. The time of his work before Bentinck; and the centre of it outside the metropolis, left the use of the English weapon against Brahmanism largely for Duff.
"We're not in charge," retorted Bodson sullenly. "All we've undertaken to do is to look out for the square deal that you promised, Duff, and which you didn't exhibit in a way that we liked. As for the rest, go ahead when you like but don't do any more hitting with your fists." "We'll go ahead with the lariat, then?" hinted Duff eagerly.
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