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Updated: June 27, 2025
Being desirous to know what the people of the Hart were about, I went to her in the Hind's boat, and on nearing her was surprised on seeing her shoot off two pieces of ordnance. I then made as much haste as possible, and met her boat and skiff coming with all speed from the shore.
We had now reached the door of Mistress Hind's house, and as I set down the bag a great oath burst from Captain Benbow's lips. "Split me!" says he, eying the splintered panel and the gap where the knocker had been. "Had I those villains on deck they should have a supper of rope's end, I warrant you."
One she noticed in particular feed a little apart, having two calves near her which had just begun to nibble a little grass. Vaguely wondering still over her plight, she pictured her days of shepherding in the downs where food had often failed her, and the ewes perforce mothered another lamb. That hind's udder was full of milk: a sudden thought ran like wine through her blood.
Moll Owens, the hind's wife, a comely lass, was to nurse him, and they had him at once to her in the nursery, where was the elder child, two years old, Master Oliver, as you know well, Mistress Lucy, a fine-grown, sturdy little Turk as ever was." "Yes, I know him," answered Lucy; "and if his brother's a changeling, he is a bear! The Whig bear is what Charley calls him."
Hind's calculations showed that we were not so much near as actually within its folds at that very time. Already M. Liais, from his observations at Rio de Janeiro, June 11 to 14, and Mr.
Teach me, Grace! and forgive me!" Grace was looking at him with her great soft eyes opening slowly, like a startled hind's, as if the wonder and delight were too great to be taken in at once. The last words unlocked her lips. "Forgive you? What! Do you forgive me?" "You? It is I am the brute; ever to have suspected you. My conscience told me all along I was a brute!
Would you have me lose my labour now? And with Hind's assent the sphinx delivered her message: 'Captain Hind, said she, 'your life is beset with constant danger, and since from your birth I have wished you well, my poor skill has devised a perfect safeguard. With this she gave him a small box containing what might have been a sundial or compass.
A spirit of questioning possessed her, though not as in the hind's case of things concrete and material. It is true she could have dispensed with Mr. Quayle's society. She did not want him.
Hoping that Captain Winter had sailed north, the Golden Hind's head was turned in that direction, with great hope that they might meet her in latitude 30 degrees; which had been before appointed as a place of rendezvous, should the fleet happen to be separated. Touching at many points, they inquired everywhere of the natives, but could hear no word of any ship having been seen before.
"Pretty!" said he: "why, I saw a girl to-day a hind's daughter so beautiful that I can't think how I never heard of her before: her beauty is a thing to be spoken about." "The style of good looks that pleases one person often does not please another," said Miss Robertson.
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