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With a madman's cunning, McConnachie whispered to the servant: "That's the gentleman I was to bring. He's gone in, so I need not wait. Tell the man to drive back." And the agonized Farquharson beheld his charge rapidly driving away and leaving him behind alone. "Stop! Stop!" he cried in an angry voice. "That's the man I was bringing here! He's not fit to be left alone.
The others were by this time coming in, for there was no chance of the enemy renewing the attack at present. Farquharson was on the roof on the lookout. Quiet greetings were exchanged between wives and husbands. "It didn't last long," Wilson said; "not above five minutes, I should say, from the time when we opened fire."
Force of habit and training made him smile at Cruickshank's proposition as impracticable, but he felt its attraction, even while he dismissed it to an inside pocket. Young Murchison's name would be so unlooked-for that if he, Farquharson, could succeed in imposing it upon the party it would be almost like making a personal choice of his successor, a grateful idea in abdication.
The two men, though politically opposed, were excellent friends; they greeted cordially. "So you're ordered out of politics, Farquharson?" said the squire. "We're all sorry for that, you know." "I'm afraid so; I'm afraid so. Thanks for your letter very friendly of you, squire. I don't like it no use pretending I do but it seems I've got to take a rest if I want to be known as a going concern."
* Sir Peter Halket, captain Lucy Scott, lieutenants Farquharson and Cumming, with a few other gentlemen, adhered punctually to their parole, and their conduct was approved by his majesty.
"Can you read it?" he asked. I nodded. "Well, this supersedes the colonel's sentence. If I say the word to Ensign Farquharson you will be remanded." "To be shot or hanged a little later, I suppose?" "No. Have you any notion why my Lord Charles is sending for you?" "No," said I, in my turn; and, indeed, I had not.
They see us thinking about keeping the business in the family; with that hard American common sense that has made them what they are, they accept the situation; and at this moment they are ready to offer us better terms to keep our trade." Bingham, Horace Williams, and Mr Farquharson applauded loudly. Their young man frowned a little and squared his chin. He was past hints of that kind.
The man was either stupid or was disappointed at receiving an insignificant tip, since Farquharson was not one to waste money unnecessarily; for he gave the direction "Asylum" to the driver in a voice that McConnachie must have been deaf not to have heard distinctly.
That would shut a pretty tight door on British connection though." "They'll not get my vote if they do," said the squire, thrusting his hands fiercely into his breeches pockets. "As you say, it's most important to put up a man who will show the constituency all the credit and benefit there is in it, anyhow," Farquharson observed.
"Farquharson," said old Squire Ormiston, the red creeping over features that had not lost in three generations the lines of the old breed, "I've voted in the Conservative interest for forty years, and my father before me.
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