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Jardine helped to roll from her lap a ball of rosy wool. "Mr. Jardine, will you give me that? Had you heard that Abercrombie's cows were lifted?" "Aye, I heard. What is it, Holdfast?" Both dogs had raised their heads. "Bran is outside," said Strickland.
"You are right, Humphrey; it is an old saying, that you must not work a willing horse to death. Pablo is very willing, but hard work he is not accustomed to. "Well, now you must come and look at my flock of goats, Edward, they are not far off. I have taught Holdfast to take care of them, and he never leaves them now, and brings them home at night.
And, alas! we too frequently allow to escape from us some expression of that satisfaction which one rival tradesman has in the downfall of another. "Here you are with all your boasting," is what we say. "You were going to whip all creation the other day; and it has come to this! Brag is a good dog, but Holdfast is a better. Pray remember that, if ever you find yourselves on your legs again."
The snow was of a dazzling whiteness and sprinkled with diamond dust; and the air of such transcendent clearness that Austen could see by leaning a little out of the Widow Peasley's window the powdered top of Holdfast Mountain some thirty miles away.
"Mind the old saying, 'Brag is a good dog, but holdfast is better." "Dear husband," said Rose Standish, "wilt thou go ashore in this company?" "Why, aye, sweetheart, what else am I come for and who should go if not I?" "Thou art so very venturesome, Miles." "Even so, my Rose of the wilderness. Why else am I come on this quest?
A word from me will put you both in arrest as persons whose loyalty in times past has been somewhat more than blown upon." "Bah!" said the pettifogger. "Bluster is a good dog, but Holdfast is the better. You can prove nothing, as you well know. Moreover, with your own neck in a noose you dare not mess and meddle with other men's affairs." "Dare not, you say?
The Sabrina, taken in tow by a steam-tug, soon made her way to Holdfast Bay, where she was to lie at anchor till Saturday morning. Hubert and his uncle accompanied Frank Oldfield thus far, and then returned in the steam-tug. Before they parted, Hubert had a long conversation with his friend in his cabin.
"A curious question to ask," said the captain, captiously. "We were in danger of being swamped more than once." "We had better have remained on board the Nantucket with you, Mr. Holdfast," said Appleton, the Melbourne merchant. Captain Hill chose to take offense at this remark. "You were quite at liberty to stay, Mr. Appleton," he said. "I didn't urge you to go with me."
"Here is the name, 'M. C., Brooklyn. He will be overjoyed. Suppose we take it up between us." No opposition being made by Mr. Holdfast, the boys took the trunk up between them, preceding the mate. They had just reached the summit of the bluff. "Put down that trunk!" said a stern voice. Looking up, the boys saw that the speaker was Captain Hill.
For once, a glance at the mountain sufficed him; and he directed his gaze through the trees at the Duncan house, engaging in a pleasant game of conjecture as to which was her window. In such weather the heights of Helicon seemed as attainable as the peak of Holdfast; and he had but to beckon a shining Pegasus from out a sun-shaft in the sky. Obstacles were mere specks on the snow.
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