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Haymaking was going on all over Pleasant Valley. By and by Miss Collins put her head in. "Be you fixed to see folks?" "Who wants me?" "Well, there's somebody comin'; and I reckon it's one or other o' them fly-aways from Elmfield." "Here?" said Diana, starting up and trembling. "Wall, there's one of 'em comin', I guess I see the carriage and I thought maybe you warn't ready to see no one.
While this explanation was being made, the brigantine had already got steerage way upon her, aided by the steady application of the sweeps, and her sharp bow was headed off shore. Nothing on the sea, unless it were a steamer, could hold speed with these fly-aways, which were built for just such emergencies as the present.
"Sho, now, Tom-Jeff; don't you git so servigrous over nothin'. I didn't see nothin' but a couple o' young fly-aways playin' 'possum in a hole in the big rock. And I'll leave it to you if I didn't call Cæsar off and go my ways, jes' like I'd like to be done by." "Yes," snarled Tom, dog-mad and furious in this second submergence of the wave of wrath.
The red scarfs you have given to the Romany and the Gorgio fly-aways would make a tent for all the Fawes in all the world." At first he flung up his head in astonishment at her words, then, as she proceeded, a flush swept across his face and his eyes filled up again with sullenness. She had read the real truth concerning him. He had gone too far.
"A duck that is flown," returned the stranger drily, "for it is no longer to be seen. These fly-aways, Captain Ludlow, give us seamen many sleepless nights and idle chases.
You know they are such fly-aways that they'll only write me when they learn to swim, or shoot a wildcat, or get lost in the woods. I want to know all the stupid bits: what you have for dinner, how and where you sleep, how your camp looks, what you do from morning till night, and how Dicky behaves. 'I can tell you that beforehand, said Bell, dolefully.
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