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Of course, the tramp heard them, and turned in sudden alarm. As he turned, the farmer snatched the club from his hand, and he found himself unexpectedly unarmed and confronted by three enemies. "It's my turn now," said Lovett. "Do you surrender?"
They had proceeded without speaking for two or three miles, when Long Ned, fixing his eyes on Tomlinson, exclaimed, "Do you know, Tomlinson, I think it was a burning shame in Lovett to suffer us to be carried off like muttons, without attempting to rescue us by the way! It is all his fault that we are here; for it was he whom Nabbem wanted, not us."
Moore, a man who, to judge by Captain Rock and the Epicurean, wants neither learning nor diligence, why are we to be told, with peculiar emphasis, that Lord Bacon never married, when Lord Bacon not only married, but his marriage was so advantageous as to be an absolute epoch in his career? "Now for the hedge!" cried Lovett, unheeding his comrades; and his horse sprang into the road.
Why, Lord now, I doesn't want to 'tice you; but this I does know, the justices are very anxious to catch Lovett; and one who gives him up, and says a word or two about his c'racter, so as to make conviction sartain, may himself be sartain of a free pardon for all little sprees and so forth!" "Ah!" said Long Ned, with a sigh, "that is all very well, Mr.
The tramp saw that the game was up and made a dash for the open window, but Philip skillfully inserted a stick between his legs, and tripped him up, and, with the help of Mr. Lovett, held him, struggling desperately, till Frank fetched a rope, with which he was securely bound. "Confound you!" he said, scowling at the two boys. "But for you I would have succeeded and got away with my booty."
I understand that at this moment the police are in active pursuit of three most accomplished robbers; nor should I be at all surprised if in this very Clifford were to be found the leader of the gang, namely, the notorious Lovett.
Be sure that I played him a trick in the mean while." "What for?" asked Ned. "Self and servant." "The post-boys?" "Ay, I forgot them. Never mind, you, must frighten them." "Forwards!" cried Ned; and his horse sprang from his armed heel. "One moment," said Lovett; "I must put on my mask. Soho, Robin, soho! Now for it, forwards!"
Later in the summer, when Lena went home for a week to visit her mother, I heard from Antonia that young Lovett drove all the way out there to see her, and took her buggy-riding. In my ingenuousness I hoped that Sylvester would marry Lena, and thus give all the country girls a better position in the town.
"For all that," returned the hostler, shaking his palsied head, and turning back to the tap-room, "for all that, master, his time be up. Mark my whids, Captain Lovett will not be over the year, no, nor mayhap the month!" "Why, you old rascal, what makes you so wise? You will not peach, I suppose!" "I peach! Devil a bit!
"How old are you, Captain Sam?" "Oh, I dunno, I ain't kep' count." "Are you seventy?" "I swan! I dunno." "Well, you were on the Old Dove with Skipper Jimmie Stone, weren't you?" "Sartin." "You were on the Constitution, when she fought the Guerriere, weren't you?" How could he deny it? "Well, weren't you with Captain Lovett on four of his three-year trading voyages to Australia and China?"
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