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Another quarter of an hour's hard work, and then Lance's voice was heard ordering one hand to jump on board the schooner and look out for a line. "All right!" exclaimed Bob's voice from the deck; "heave it up here, Mr Evelin." "What! you there, Robert? Glad to hear it, my fine fellow. Just go forward; look out for the line, and, when you have it, haul taut and make fast securely."
A strong relief gang was soon on the spot, only to find Lance's fears confirmed. The gun had been hoisted nearly half-way up the cliff when the guide-rope had fouled a rock.
The soldier who had locked Betty into Captain De Lance's room, and returned to find that the silent little captive had outwitted him and made her escape, decided that it was best to keep the affair to himself, and say nothing about a little girl with an officer's coat for which she would not account.
'Then, said John, 'does it not seem to you, Wilmet, that it would be a greater positive benefit to accept Lance's offer for the present on trial, as one may say than to leave him to the depression that is certainly doing him harm? 'And if Lance was there, said Wilmet, 'I should have some comfort that Felix would be properly looked after.
"Your tastes are mine; we belong to the same school. It makes for understanding." "After all," said Evelyn, "one likes something new." Mordaunt laughed and said he must go, and when his car rolled away Evelyn mused. Lance's remark was justified; they did belong to the same school, and in the main their views agreed. This had some drawbacks, but it had advantages.
Lance lifted the wheel off my body at some risk to himself." "That is so," Dick agreed. "I think he took advantage of it afterwards; I mean he knew we would remember he had saved your life. It was a generous impulse, but that was all." "I imagine Lance's character is too complex for your study," Bernard remarked. "Tell us about his deeds."
Shall I sing you one Christmas hymn before I go? And Lance broke into the 'Herald Angels' again. 'Mild He lays His glory by, Born that man no more may die; Born to raise the sons of earth, Born to give them second birth. Fernando's face was bathed in tears; he held out his arms, and to little Lance's great amazement, somewhat to his vexation, he held him fast and kissed him.
The peculiarity of her situation increased her usual shyness; she played with the black and gold beads of a handsome necklace Lance's last gift as the merest child might; her unbuckled shoe gave the squaw a natural opportunity of showing her admiration and devotion by insisting upon buckling it, and gave Lance, under that disguise, an opportunity of covertly kissing the little foot and ankle in the shadow of the chimney; an event which provoked slight hysterical symptoms in Flip and caused her to sit suddenly down in spite of the remonstrances of her parent.
He would have looked up and thanked, but the Bishop and that 'fat one' were absorbed in conversation on the step; and when he turned over the leaves of the little blue morocco book, with its inlaid red cross, he found full in his face, in the first page, the words, 'Lancelot Underwood, March 15th, 1855, and then followed an initial, and a name that utterly defeated Lance's powers, so that perceiving the shop to be far too densely full of parsons for him to have a chance there, he galloped off at full speed to Cherry, who happily could interpret the contracted Latin by the name of the See, and was not quite so much astonished as Lance, though even more gratified.
Both of them were such expert boatmen that excepting on very dark nights they scarcely needed to communicate except by signs. On summer afternoons when the herrings were coming southward Roughit would knock at Lance's door and pass on without a word. Presently Lance would come out, with his oilskins over one arm and his water-bottle swung by his side.
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