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He and a friend of his, young Lord Destrier, son of the Marquis of Edbury, who knew my father well, talked and laughed with her, and thought her so very handsome that I likewise began to stare, and I suddenly called 'Kiomi! She bounded back into the hedge. This was our second meeting.
I walked off the grounds, and thought to myself it was quite time I should be moving. Wherever I stayed for any length of time I was certain to hear abuse of my father. Why not wander over the country with Kiomi, go to sea, mount the Andes, enlist in a Prussian regiment, and hear the soldiers tell tales of Frederick the Great?
I did not listen; I was full of a tempest, owing to two causes: a studious admiration of the smart young prizefighter's person, and wrathful disgust at him for calling Kiomi his wife, and telling her he was prepared to marry her as soon as she played her harp like King David.
I had to swear I would not. 'He! cried Kiomi. 'He may forget us when he's gone, the mother said. She would have liked me to kiss a book to seal the oath.
'Heriot, I give you my word of honour, the very look of her 's eternal Summer. Kiomi rings thin she tinkles; it 's the difference between metal and flesh. 'Did she tinkle, as you call it, when that fellow Destrier, confound him! touched her? 'The little cat! Did you notice Mabel's blush? 'How could I help it? We've all had a dozen apiece.
'Remember our feast in the combe? I sang across the table to him. 'Never forget it! said he; and we repeated the tale of the goose at Rippenger's school to our entertainers, making them laugh. 'And next morning Richie ran off with a gipsy girl, said Temple; and I composed a narrative of my wanderings with Kiomi, much more amusing than the real one.
The other and younger girl sung out: 'I found you. Kiomi sent a volley at her. 'I did, said the girl; 'yes, and I nursed you first, I did; and mother doctored you. Kiomi hasn't been here a day. The old mother came out of the tent. She felt my pulse, and forthwith squatted in front of me. 'You're hard to kill, and oily as a bean, said she.
'First blood to you, Kiomi; uncork his claret, my duck; straight at the nozzle, he sees more lamps than shine in London, I warrant. Make him lively, cook him; tell him who taught you; a downer to him, and I'll marry you to-morrow!
I shattered my ribs with laughter over the story. Eveleen dwelt on the triumph, twinkling. Kiomi despised laughter or triumph resulting from the natural exercise of craft in an emergency. 'But my handsome gentleman he won't tell on us, will he, when we've nursed him and doctored him, and made him one of us, and as good a stick o' timber as grows in the forest? whined the old mother.
I would not have accepted breakfast there. About mid-day, crossing a stubble-field, the girl met a couple of her people-men. Near evening we entered one of their tents. The women set up a cry, 'Kiomi! Kiomi ! like a rising rookery. Their eyes and teeth made such a flashing as when you dabble a hand in a dark waterpool.
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