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Half-a dozen covered sleighs, going and returning, transported the party to the barracks, where, escorted by their military hosts, they ascended the staircase, banked with evergreens, and lined by motionless soldiers to the ante-room, which, of course, looked as unattractive as the cordial but mistaken exertions of its proprietors could make it all the laissez-aller comfort primly tidied away, and such a roasting fire as speedily drove every one to remote corners of the room.
At half past 3 P.M. our camels were lazily loaded, and we followed the course of the Fiumara, which runs to the W. and S. W. After half an hour's progress, we arrived at the gully in which are the wells, and the guides halted because they descried half-a- dozen youths and boys bathing and washing their Tobes.
Robson; "my terms are half-a- guinea a week; and I will tend on you as though you were my own son! for I cannot forget, excellent young gentleman, the way in which we first met." "Then I will leave you for the present;" returned he, rising, and putting down the little William, who had been amusing himself with examining the silver points of the star of St.
Yamba, by the way, was anxious that I should possess at least half-a-dozen wives, partly because this circumstance would be more in keeping with my rank; but I did not fall in with the idea. I had quite enough to do already to maintain my authority among the tribe at large, and did not care to have to rule in addition half-a- dozen women in my own establishment.
The flaming glare of an uplifted pine-knot flung its radiance over half-a- dozen figures grouped in the open doorway. A corporal, with a white chin beard, was bending over me. "Come, Johnny," he said tersely, "get up you're wanted." The instinct of soldierly obedience in which I had been so long trained caused me to grope my way to my feet. "What time is it, Corporal?" I asked sleepily.
"The hawk pecked at the girl's heart," said the lady. "It did not get so far as that, Countess." "You speak prose, my friend." "I am no troubadour, but speak what I know." "The heart means nothing to you, Prosper!" "The heart? Dear lady, I assure you the girl was not hurt. She is a young woman by now, probably wife to a clown and mother of half-a- dozen." "Prosper, you disappoint me.
Half-a- dozen houses of charity, established between Mekka and Medina, with an annual endowment of a few thousand dollars, would be of more real service to the cause of their religion, than all the sums spent in feeding the idle, or keeping up a vain show.
He left the parcel therefore with the carrier's wife, and proceeded, somewhat sad at heart, to spend the last of his money, amounting to half-a crown. Having done so, he set out for home, the wind blowing fierce, and the snow falling thick. Just outside the village he met a miserable-looking woman, with a child in her arms. How she came to be there he could not think.
The name over the door was now "The Come All Ye," and there was a hitching rack in front to which were tethered half-a dozen saddled horses. Inside, the scene was set as he remembered it. A red-shirted bartender, his hair plastered low over his brow, leaned negligently on the bar. Scattered around the room were dance-hall girls in short skirts, and a number of cowboys.
The very slightest symptom of surprise arose in her as she rejoined, 'But the weather may change; or had we better not go at all? 'O no! it was only a thought. We will start at once. And along the vale they went, John keeping himself about a yard from her right hand. When the third field had been crossed they came upon half-a- dozen little boys at play.
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