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It was very horrible, but the weird scene beneath those heavy boughs, with the keeper's burly form thrown up by the yellow glow of the lantern and the shadowy aspect of the trees around, with the light faintly gleaming on their trunks, fascinated us so that we followed Hopley with his daughter to where he stood. "Now, squire," he said, "where are you hurt?"
"I say, Dr Hopley," remarked Captain Dunning, as he gazed intently into the gloom astern, "did you not hear voices? and, as I live, there's a large ship bearing right down on us!" "It must be a slaver," replied the doctor; "probably the one that owned the boat we saw up the river." "Ship on the larboard bow!" shouted the look-out on the forecastle.
I shook my head, feeling horrified at the idea of such a fine-looking, frank old soldier being guilty of a piece of trickery, and I said so, but declared that I would not believe it. "I don't want to, but people do cheat us. Even Polly Hopley charges us double for lots of the things we have." By this time we had reached the lodge, but the door was shut, and Mercer looked at me very gloomily.
Wrote dramas, children's books, and one or two novels, including Susan Hopley , and Lilly Dawson , but is chiefly remembered for her Night-side of Nature , a collection of stories of the supernatural. Though somewhat morbid she had considerable talent. Historian and novelist, s. of an officer in the army, b. near Southampton, and ed. at Trinity Coll., Dublin.
But, on second thoughts, he agreed to allow a well-armed party to accompany the trader; the more so that he was urged thereto very strongly by Dr Hopley, who, being a naturalist, was anxious to procure specimens of the creatures and plants in the interior, and being a phrenologist, was desirous of examining what Glynn termed the "bumpological developments of the negro skull."
The captain made no reply; but, shutting his eyes, and drawing Ailie close to his side, he uttered a long and fervent prayer to God for deliverance, if He should see fit, or for grace to endure with Christian resignation and fortitude whatever He pleased to send upon them. When he concluded, and again looked up, Dr Hopley was standing beside them, with his head bowed upon his breast.
"Thought you wanted to pay me that shilling you owe me, sir." "I don't owe you a shilling." "Oh yes, you do, sir. Don't he, Mr Burr junior?" "No," I said; "and if you ever have the impudence to say so again, I'll tell Bob Hopley to give you another thrashing." The gipsy-looking fellow's dark eyes flashed. "He'd better touch me again," he cried fiercely. "He'd better touch me again.
"Pretty scoundrels, 'pon my word!" cried the General. "Gentlemen's sons, eh? nice gentlemen's sons. They've both got poacher written in their face, and I can see what the end will be transportation, or hung for killing a keeper. That's it, eh, Hopley?" "Well, sir," said Bob, giving us each a pitying look, "I wouldn't go quite so far as that." "No, because you are an easy-going fool.
Her eyes were closed, and she was very pale from exposure and exhaustion, but her lips moved as if in prayer. Captain Dunning looked anxiously at Dr Hopley, who crouched beside them, and gazed earnestly in the child's face while he felt her pulse. "It's almost too much for her, I fear," said the captain, in a hesitating, husky voice.
He looked gravely in the doctor's face for two minutes without speaking; then he heaved a deep sigh, and said slowly, and with a pause between each word "Doctor Hopley I never gave a rap in all my life." "So then, my man," said the doctor, smiling, "you're scarcely entitled to be indignant with others." "Wot you remark, doctor, is true; I am not."
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