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"He says he's David Innes," said Downes. "He wants to know who we are." "Tell him," said I; "and that we want to know how he is and all that has befallen him since I last saw him." For two months I talked with David Innes almost every day, and as Downes translated, either Nestor or I took notes.
'Did not the General say so? she asked. 'Yes, he did. But one looks to make quite sure. 'I can understand that. Mrs. Innes leaned forward with one elbow on her knee. It was not a graceful attitude, but it gave the casual air to the conversation which was desirable. 'What are you going to do? she said. 'My plans are as indefinite as possible, really, Madeline returned.
In the meantime, Kirstie had escaped into the kitchen, and before her vassal gave vent to her feelings. "Here, ettercap! Ye'll have to wait on yon Innes! I canna haud myself in. `Puir Erchie! I'd `puir Erchie' him, if I had my way! And Hermiston with the deil's ain temper! God, let him take Hermiston's scones out of his mouth first.
At the same time it is in conflict as to the first three generations with so high an authority as the late Cosmo Innes, and Sir William Fraser followed him.
"I wadna just say that, Mr. Hayes," said Innes. "How do you know, Innes?" retorted Hayes. "You know you fall asleep before he gets rightly started." "I aye listen better with ma eyes shut." "Yes, and snore better, too, Mac," said Hayes. "But I don't blame you. Most of them go to sleep anyway. That's the kind of preacher he is." "What sort of a chap is he? I mean what sort of man?"
Innes, with clasped hands, was sunk in thought. She raised her eyes with a conviction in them which she evidently felt to be pathetic. 'After all, she said, 'there is something in what the padres say about our reaping the reward of our misdeeds in this world some of us, anyway. If I had stayed in New York 'Yes? said Madeline.
Got a lot of last year's 'varsity players left, too, and we ought to be able to turn out a pretty fair team." "Where does Captain Innes play?" Clint asked "Centre, and he's a peach. Marvin, over there, is first-string quarter this year. Edwards will be one of our ends and Hall will have right guard cinched, I think." "And where do you play?" Clint inquired. "Half, when I play," laughed the other.
"It is I in the flesh, colonel, sound and hearty." "Why, my dear lad," Munro exclaimed, holding out his hand, "we thought you had fallen at the sack of New Brandenburg. Innes and Lumsden were believed to be the only ones who had escaped." "I have come through it, nevertheless," Malcolm said; "but it is a long story, colonel, and I would ask you first if the king has learned what Tilly is doing."
Washings were not brought in, though Mr. Dishart had preached against the unseemly sight of linen hanging on the line on the Sabbath-day. Innes, stravaiging the square and wynds in his apple-cart, jingled his weights in vain, unable to shake even moneyed children off their stools, and when at last he told his beast to go home they took with them all the stir of the town.
While Alonzo Rivera applied himself with every possible energy to check the progress of the Araucanians and to guard the frontier of the Biobio, he was removed, from the government of Chili to that of Tucuman, as a punishment for having presumed to marry the daughter of the celebrated heroine Innes Águilera, without having obtained the royal permission.
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