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"If he gets left on the Grossetto line, he can go back and come up by Orvieto, no?" "He can, if he isn't in a hurry," Hinkle assented. "It's a good way, if you've got time to burn." Belsky did not attempt to explore the American's meaning. "Do you know," he asked, "whether Mrs. Lander and her young friend are still in Florence? "I guess they are."
The man released his fork with one hand to stoop for a head of timothy that had escaped the scythe, and he put the stem of it between his teeth, where it moved up and down, and whipped fantastically about as he talked, before he answered, "You mean the Claxons?" "I don't know what thei' name is." Mrs. Lander repeated exactly what she had said.
If you utter another peep during this game, I'll button up both your blinkers so tight it'll take a doctor to pry 'em open. Get that?" "Take your hands off me!" cried Herbert indignantly. "How dare you!" "How dast I!" snarled Lander. "I'll show you how I dast if you wag your jaw any more." "I've got a right to talk; everybody else does."
It was in making her morning inspection of the dusting that she found Clementina in the parlor where Lander had told her to sit down till he should come for her. "Why, Clem!" she said, "I didn't know you! You have grown so! Youa folks all well? I decla'e you ah' quite a woman now," she added, as the girl stood up in her slender, graceful height. "You look as pretty as a pink in that hat.
His younger brother, John Lander, who, influenced by a laudable desire to assist in the solution of the geographical problem, was of a very different turn of mind.
On the morning of Wednesday the 19th of May, Richard Lander was desired by a messenger to visit the king at his residence, and on his arrival there, he found a great number of people assembled. The object of this summons was explained by Ebo, who said that Lander had been sent for, that the present which he, the eunuch had received, should be shown to the people without any reservation whatever.
"Yes?" "We're both of us gettin' pretty well on, and you'd ought to have somebody to look after you if I'm not around. You want somebody that can do for you; and keep you company, and read to you, and talk to you well, moa like a daughta than a suvvant somebody that you'd get attached to, maybe" "And don't you see," Mrs. Lander broke out severely upon him, "what a ca'e that would be?
Lander, and she was so taken by the girl's art and grace in getting to her feet and fading into the background of the hallway without visibly casting any detail of her raiment, that she was not aware of her husband's starting up the horse in time to stop him. They were fairly under way again, when she lamented, "What you doin', Albe't? Whe'e you goin'?" "I'm goin' to South Middlemount.
I will take care that the cannon shall be loaded to the muzzle with balls and flints, and if there is any row, I will give them such a scouring as they never had." He then directed Lander to place the muskets and cutlasses out of sight, near the stern of the vessel, and said to him, "The instant that your people come on board, call them aft, and let them stand by the arms.
In this expedition, Captain Clapperton died of the fever of the country. His faithful servant, Lander, after publishing his journal, returned to Africa, in 1830, with his brother, landed at Badagry, and again crossed the country to the Niger. At Boussa, they obtained the first authentic information of the death of Park, and recovered his gun, robe, and other relics.
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