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"Now, Ailie," said Glynn, "come along and have supper. It's not a very tempting one, but we must content ourselves with hard fare and a hard bed to-night, as I dare not light a fire lest the negroes should observe it and catch us." "I'm sorry for that," replied the child; "for a fire is so nice and cheery; and it helps to keep off the wild beasts, too, doesn't it?"
Glynn laughed aloud sometimes at himself, to think how deeply interested he had become in the child, for up to that time he had rather avoided than courted the society of children; and he used to say to Ailie that the sailors would begin to call her his little sweetheart, if he spent so much of his time with her; to which Ailie would reply by asking what a sweetheart was; whereat Glynn would laugh immoderately; whereupon Ailie would tell him not to be stupid, but to come and play with her!
"Well, and what does skulking mean, and shirking work?" persisted Ailie. "It means hiding so as to escape duty, my little catechist; but " "Hallo! Glynn, Glynn Proctor," roared the first mate from the deck "where's that fellow? Skulking, I'll be bound. Lay aloft there and shake out the foretopsail. Look alive." "Ay, ay, sir," was the ready response as the men sprang to obey.
Didn't we fool 'em good?" he asked, when once more we were on the high seas and laying a free course for the western banks. "I'm grateful you did not ask me to go in any dory to bring the bait off," I answered. "Why is that, Simon?" he asked, as one who has no suspicion. "It was against the law, Captain Glynn." "But a bad law, Simon?" "Law is law," I answered to that.
I believe Mr. Glynn alone raised his voice in favour of proportional representation, in the Convention, as he has done consistently in every representative assembly of which he has been a member.
The Richmond Blues, one hundred and twelve strong, with the Camden and Glynn mounted volunteers, numbering twenty-seven, and the Darien Infantry of about thirty, under command of Captains Robertson, R. Floyd, and Thomas S. Bryant respectively, took up line of march as an escort to the two six-pounders, ordnance stores, twenty-five wagons and carts laden with provisions, and passed through the heart of the enemy's country, arriving on February 15th, without obstruction, at the garrison of Fort Drane.
"To be sure we do," interrupted Glynn; "we use anchors baited with live crocodiles sometimes elephants, when we can't get crocodiles. But hippopotamuses do best." "Oh! Glynn!" cried Ailie, laughing, "how can you?" "It all depends on the drogue," remarked the doctor.
Still, I hope it will be all right to-morrow, and I sincerely trust that you can see your way to stay here for some little time to come. I am going to ask my sister, Lady Glynn, to come down and act the part of hostess. Somebody will have to introduce Beth to the county as my future daughter-in-law." "You are pleased with the arrangement?" Vera asked, demurely. "Indeed, I am," Lord Merton cried.
Their conversation was evidently about Kathleen for they both glanced at her often as she stood chatting to one of her Nationalist friends, Miss Healy, the contralto. An unknown solitary woman with a pale face walked through the room. The women followed with keen eyes the faded blue dress which was stretched upon a meagre body. Someone said that she was Madam Glynn, the soprano.
They confronted each other with the pitiless immovability of two statues in whose marble lineaments emotions were fixed for all eternity. Then Henry Glynn smiled and the smile transformed his face. He looked suddenly years younger, and an almost boyish recklessness and irresolution appeared in his face.
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