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What's Jaffray's marrying, or no' marrying, to do wi' her?" he wondered, reverting to the question which Anne had put to him at parting. "And whar's the sense o' her errand, if she's reely bent on finding her way to Mistress Glenarm?" Whatever the sense of her errand might be, Anne's next proceeding proved that she was really bent on it.
"I guess you carry a six-shooter, don't you?" he asked. "You may need it this trip." "Oh!" I managed to gasp. "A lion's escaped," he went on, in the quick, nervous American way of an American news editor. "Has it really?" I said, wondering what was coming next. "Jaffray's Circus came to town last night, the lion somehow got out, and they've been chasing it all night.
The boat, apparently, had torn loose from her davits and gone voyaging alone. But as I made to climb in I was fiercely attacked in the face by the wings, beak, and claws of Jaffray's graceless parrot. In the first surprise and discomfiture I let go and sank. Coming up, choking with brine and fury, I overcame resistance with a backhanded blow, and tumbled over the gunwale into the boat.
"Now I don't advance for a moment the theory that she understood all that she said, nor even a part of what I said. But her statements and answers were often wonderfully apt. Have you ever known one of those tremendously clever deaf people whom you may talk with for a long time before discovering that they are deaf? Talking with poor Jaffray's parrot was like that.
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