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Updated: April 30, 2025
"Vinie, where's your father?" "I don't know, thir," answered Vinie. "Tom knows. Tom's down there, at the big ship. I'll tell him." She slipped from Gaudylock's clasp and pattered off toward the river, where the brig from Barbadoes showed hull and masts. The hunter sat down upon the porch step, and drew out his tobacco pouch. "She's like a partridge," he said.
He sent her courtly messages, and he pressed Rand's hand somewhat too closely, then with his most admirable military air and frankest smile, thrust his arm through Gaudylock's and marched away. Rand closed the door, put down the candle that he held, and turned into the drawing-room.
The beating he could take; what he wouldn't stand would be, say, Gideon's flinging the books into the fire. "He shan't, he shan't," said the boy's hot heart. "If he does, I'll I'll " Through the window came Gaudylock's voice from the porch of the Bird in Hand. "You Stay-at-homes you don't know what's in the wilderness! There's good and there's bad, and there's much beside.
Presently Rand began to speak of Adam Gaudylock's account of New Orleans. "Ay, ay," said the Colonel, "there's a city! But it's not English it is Spanish and French. And all that new land now! 'twill never be held begging your pardon, Mr. Rand by Thomas Jefferson and a lot of new-fangled notions!
"We may sit late, Jacqueline," said Rand, and their guest, "Madam, I will make court to you in a court some day!" Gaudylock's voice floated in from the hall: "Is a little man with him? a black-eyed man?" She passed into the drawing-room, and, pressing her brow against the window-pane, looked out into the night. The snow had ceased to fall, and the moon was struggling with the breaking clouds.
His ear was almost as quick and accurate as was Adam Gaudylock's, and he rightly thought he knew the step. A somewhat strange smile was on his lips when Ludwell Cary knocked lightly at the blue room door. "Come in!" called Rand, and Cary, entering, closed the door behind him and came up to the bed with an outstretched hand and a pleasant light upon his handsome face. "Ah, Mr.
Adam emptied his glass, then, leaning back in his corner, surveyed the room. Two men came and seated themselves at a neighbouring table. They were talking in lowered voices, but Gaudylock's ears were exceedingly keen. "A great speech!" said one. "As great as Mr. Henry ever made. Do you remember old Gideon Rand?" The other shrugged.
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