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Hawley's side veranda with the bubbling swamp below us. She reads a dull novel, I watch the dead life, pen in hand, and think how I can convey any impression of it to you. The Resident has gone snipe- shooting to replenish our larder.
"Most likely he would have been had he not been so busy winding Mr. Hawley's treasures," replied the Scotchman, smiling at the jest. "Then in 1695 Tompion made a very fine traveling striking and alarm watch with case beautifully chased. The Pump Room at Bath boasts a tall clock of his make a present from him to the city in acknowledgment of the benefits he derived from its mineral waters.
Many of the second line had blindly followed the first: the rest shunned the action; Hawley's officers led away some regiments in an orderly retreat; night fell; no man knew what had really occurred till young Gask and young Strathallan, with the French and Atholl men, ventured into Falkirk, and found Hawley's camp deserted.
Perhaps the right course now was to advance on Edinburgh, but the hopeless siege of Stirling Castle was continued Charles perhaps hoping much from Hawley's captured guns. The accidental shooting of young AEneas Macdonnell, second son of Glengarry, by a Clanranald man, begat a kind of blood feud between the clans, and the unhappy cause of the accident had to be shot.
The silence was now broken by a remark from Valentine Duke irrelevant to any preceding. "Nuts are plentier at Hawley's Grove than at Crow Roost," he jerked, out, and then locked up again. "Say we go there, then," said Kit Pott. "Let's take the vote on it. Those in favor of Hawley's say aye." The ayes came storming out, as though each was bound to be the first and loudest.
"Aw, let up," Kent advised him, through a crack in the wall. "Want to know where you are? Well, you're in Hawley's ice house; you know it's a fine place for drunks to sober up in; it's awful popular for that purpose. Aw, you can't do any business kicking that's been tried lots of times. This is sure well built, for an ice house. No, I can't let you out. Couldn't possibly, you know.
The only drawback upon my happiness was Lord Hawley's valet, a Frenchman, named Lagrange, who had been in his lordship's service many years, and was regarded as a remarkably honest and faithful man, and so he was; but those qualities which rendered him valuable to his lordship, of course rendered him devilish obnoxious to me, for he suspected my real character, and was continually playing the spy upon me, and informing my master of all my little peccadilloes.
'As it's near the darkening, sir, wad ye just step in by to our house and tak a dish o' tea? and I am sure if ye like to sleep in the little room, I wad tak care ye are no disturbed, and naebody wad ken ye; for Kate and Matty, the limmers, gaed aff wi' twa o' Hawley's dragoons, and I hae twa new queans instead o' them.
"It's a mighty comfortable way of looking at things, that's all I have to say." "But it's the true way," said Will glibly. "There's one thing I'm mighty glad of for Peter John's sake." "What is it?" "That he rooms with Hawley. I don't believe the sophs will bother him very much." "Not when Hawley's on hand." "You think they will when he's not?" "Yes, sir, I do. Peter John just invites them.
Hawley's influence just at present was greater than Hope's, because the lad naturally felt ashamed to go slinking home penniless and defeated. His pride held him to Hawley, and his faith that the man would redeem his promise. Keith understood all this readily enough, and comprehended also that if "Black Bart" had any use for the boy it would be for some criminal purpose. What was it?
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