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"Come now," said McGregor, "quick, he will be going into the house." They were gulls for diving at the ledge; but Rainbow Pete held out his arm, stopping them. "Stand away," he said, "I will be going into my house with old Greyback here and no other." This arm was not yet withered he had. No! They stayed in their tracks, as we were going up the ledge.
Threading her way through the crowded streets, heeding not the jeers or insults of the rebel soldiery, she soon came in front of the Cooper Mansion, to find a rebel flag floating from an upper window, and a well dressed soldierly looking greyback, with bayonet fixed, pacing his beat in front. Nothing daunted, Mrs. D. approached.
The person thus addressed was a gaunt, lanky-looking warrior, clad simply in helmet, shirt, and trousers; the sleeves of his "greyback" were rolled up above his elbows; and he was armed with a roughly-made catapult, evidently intended for the destruction of some of the small, brightly-coloured birds that were flitting about among the branches of the palms.
I ordered him to strip, and we made a second exchange as quickly as possible. The rasp of his own "greyback" shirt and the squeak of his boots seemed to bring him to himself. He put his hands before his eyes and said "Wot was it? I ain't mad, I ain't sunstrook, an' I've bin an' gone an' said, an' bin an' gone an' done.... Wot 'ave I bin an' done!" "Fwhat have you done?" said Mulvaney.
Look at this set of ivory, and these claws, old greyback! If you want I should leave this roof, just come and put me off. Try it on, old Beeswax. Yes, yes! try it on once, and we'll see whose eyes will look straightest in the morning! Come on, old Humpback! Try it on, old Sausage Tail!
"I am much altered for the worse," he went muttering to us. "She will think nothing of me now." "There is still time for constancy," said Shoepack Sam. "Do not lose hope." Then he told them to be quiet, looking up at the dark ledge where the woman lay. "Old Greyback," said Rainbow Pete, whispering to me, "I am mistrustful of this moment." "Hist!" said McGregor, "that was the sound of his string.
One Irregular was sitting on an earth-filled packing-case, swearing softly, nursing a disabled right arm, and looking at the corded network of hairy, sunburned muscles that were delicately outlined in the bright red stream that trickled from beneath the rolled-up shirt-sleeve of raspy "greyback." "We saw your hairy tied up outside, Doctor, and 'sensed' your whereabouts, as McFadyen says.
"Look here at the little nipper, old Greyback," he said, "come a little way into the room. Look now, at the fat back for putting a little palm-tree on, while he is young. This is truth, old fellow, here is true gold lying at the foot of the rainbow, according to the prophecy." Our old friend stopped to breathe and blink. "He had staked this claim but he had never worked it," he said solemnly.
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