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'Then cheerly to your work again, With hearts new braced and set To run untired love's blessed race, As meet for those who face to face Over the grave their Lord have met. That dying request could not but be held sacred, and overtures were made to Griffith, who returned an odd sort of answer, friendly and affectionate, but rather as if my father were the offending party in need of forgiveness.
Mr Griffith, the able engineer under whose superintendence the government valuation is being made, and who, as he states himself, has walked over nearly every part of Ireland, and has personal knowledge of almost every locality, is asked "In the county of Tipperary, can you say whether the tenant-right prevails there?"
From their experiments they tabulated thousands of readings, which Griffith Brewer remarks as giving results equally efficient with those of the elaborate tables prepared by learned institutions. Wilbur Wright has set down the beginnings of the practical experiments made by the two brothers very clearly.
The semi-lull continued, and little attention was paid to the straggling fire of the Indians, though sharp eyes were watching from the tower. Griffith Hawke came up to where I was leaning, breathing hard, on the barrel of my musket. "Thank God you are all right, my boy!" he said hoarsely. "I never expected those devils would get over the stockade.
"She's a sweet boat!" said Griffith, "and minds her helm as a marine watches the eye of his sergeant at a drill; but you must give her room in stays, for she fore-reaches, as if she would put out the wind's eye." The pilot attended, with a practised ear, to this description of the qualities of the ship that he was about to attempt extricating from an extremely dangerous situation.
"Where are the rest?" she asked in a different voice. "I fear they are all drowned," I answered gloomily. "Fate has been less kind to us." "Do you know where we are?" she continued. "Not exactly," I said, looking about, "but we can't be a great distance from Fort York and from Griffith Hawke." I was sorry for the cutting words as soon as they were spoken, and I would have made a fitting apology.
"Oh, Denzil, is it " she began. "Yes; it is Griffith Hawke," I broke in savagely. "Be brave!" she whispered. "Our paths lie apart do not make it harder for me." Our eyes met in a look that spoke volumes, and then there was a sudden uproar as the factor and his companions joined our party.
She had subtle, vague misgivings, and forbade her mother to mention the pedler's visit to Griffith yet awhile. Womanlike she preferred to worm out the truth. On the evening of his return from Lancaster, as he was smoking his pipe, she quietly tested him. She fixed her eyes on him, and said, "One was here to-day that knows thee, and brought thee this."
After having expostulated some time in vain, he handed me over the prize upon his own responsibility, in the presence of the enraged parson; and desired Griffith, if he wished to favour Butcher, to do it by giving him a knife out of his own pocket, which he actually did, in order to sneak out of the business. By these repeated acts of injustice and cruelty he, however, soon lost his school.
The pilot shook his head, as he replied: "There is no more tacking or box-hauling to be done tonight. We have barely room to pass out of the shoals on this course; and if we can weather the 'Devil's Grip, we clear their outermost point but if not, as I said before, there is but an alternative." "If we had beaten out the way we entered," exclaimed Griffith, "we should have done well."
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