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Updated: May 22, 2025
When the raiders arrived within a mile of our winter-quarters they inquired of the country people as to the character of troops occupying our camp, and were informed by some negroes that the "men had muskets with bayonets on them." As infantry was not what they were seeking, they gave us the go-by and passed on toward Richmond, the capture of which was the chief object of the expedition.
The very birds of passage have ticked it off on their guide-books, and when the wild ducks, coming down towards the Camargue in long triangles, spy the town steeples from afar, the outermost flyers squawk out loudly: "Look out! there's Tarascon! give Tarascon the go-by, duckies!" And the flocks take a swerve.
"Yes! Take me away from here anywhere at once! Look, Jim," she went on feverishly, "let bygones be bygones I won't peach! I won't tell on you though I had it in my heart when you gave me the go-by just now! I'll do anything you say go to your farthest hiding-place work for you only take me out of this cursed place." Her passionate pleading stung even through his selfishness and loathing.
So try and take heart; and if so be that Adam can give they Bailey chaps the go-by, tell un to come 'longs here, and us 'ull be odds with any o' they that happens to be follerin' to his heels."
Is it that we may find it hard to give the go-by to the Burg of the Four Friths?" Said Richard: "Though the Burg be not very far from Whitwall, we hear but little tidings thence; our chapmen but seldom go there, and none cometh to us thence save such of our men as have strayed thither.
When he went upon deck again, to look out while his supper was waiting, he found no change, except that the wind was freshening and the sea increasing, and the strangers whose company he did not covet seemed waiting for no invitation. With a light wind he would have had little fear of giving them the go-by, or on a dark night he might have contrived to slip between or away from them.
So I tied up my boat as soon as I came to some steps, and landed and left the Embankment, and about the third street I came to I began to look for the opening of Go-by Street; it is very narrow, you hardly notice it at first, but there it was, and soon I was in the old man's shop. But a young man leaned over the counter.
"If she's English she may not send a boat on board to examine us, and we shall pass for a privateer, or we may get the breeze in time to slip out of her way to the northward, or to keep ahead of her and give her the go-by during the night.
Oh, no, it would be all up with me if Martha an' Flo should catch you here. We'll jist give 'em the go-by to-day, an' it'll be the fust time I've ever done sich a thing. I've been allus mighty glad to git home, even fer a few minutes." "Captain, are you really afraid of your wife and daughter?" the girl asked.
"I hate a waiting game especially when there's nothing to wait for. You're not going to give me the go-by now." His face was close to her again. She put her hand against his chin and softly pushed it away. "Bunny!" she said. "Well, dear?" He stood, not yielding, but suffering her check. "Bunny!" she said again, speaking with obvious effort. "I've got to say something.
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