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"How many rifles did the Frenchman bring to that son of darkness?" he said harshly. She turned her head, surprised at the question, and met his bloodshot eyes fixed on hers, half-menacing, half-admiring, and looked away again hastily. "I do not know." His fingers tightened on her wrist. "How many men had Ahmed Ben Hassan in the camp in which he kept you?" "I do not know." "I do not know!
But he did not talk to her, though he looked at her now and then; and whenever he looked at her, his glance was a half-admiring one, even while it was evident that he was not thinking much about her. He did not remain with them very long, scarcely an hour, and yet she was almost sorry to see him go.
The tone was caressing and half-admiring, and the younger lady's still smile in reply was like a revelation; it showed that she accepted banter, but was too serious to return it. Marion Dearsley and her aunt, Mrs. Walton, understood each other: the matron pretended to laugh at her niece's gravity, but the genuine relation between the pair was that of profound mutual confidence and fondness.
Such is the clearest idea I can give you of my feeling towards children I like, but to whom I am a stranger; and to what children am I not a stranger? They seem to me little wonders; their talk, their ways are all matter of half-admiring, half-puzzled speculation." The following is part of a long letter which I received from her, dated September 20th, 1851:
"You are a cool one, Mad!" said the latter in half-admiring indignation. "What's up?" said the bewildered Madison. "You ought to be, and scootin' out o' this," said Breckenridge grimly. "It's all very well to 'know nothin'; but here Phil Larrabee's friends hev just picked him up, drilled through with slugs and deader nor a crow, and now they're lettin' loose Larrabee's two half-brothers on you.
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