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Placing his gun and snow-shoes in a corner, after solemnly responding "watchee, watchee," to Macnab's "what cheer," the red-man seated himself on the floor beside the stove, with silent disregard of the chair that his host politely offered.
Only fifteen members voted for MacNab's motion, while twenty recorded their votes against it, and among the latter were several of the most redoubtable Tories in the House. The organizers of the attack perceived that they had made a false move, and withdrew their forces for a fresh assault in a different quarter.
To his dismay, the surrender, if one may so term it, which he signed next day, was not accepted, since Baldwin could not countenance the pensioning of the ministers, Ogden and Davidson, who had been compulsorily retired, and, although MacNab was at hand with the offer of sixteen Conservative stalwarts, the plan was useless, and, in view of MacNab's general conduct at this time, irritating.
"Were you," the old maid resumed, "at Mrs. Macnab's last night? Charming music?" "Charming! How pretty that Mrs. Butler is! and how humble! Knows her station so unlike professional people." "Yes, indeed! What attention a certain banker paid her!" "He! he! he! yes; he is very fatherly very!"
"Were you," the old maid resumed, "at Mrs. Macnab's last night? Charming music?" "Charming! How pretty that Mrs. Butler is! and how humble! Knows her station so unlike professional people." "Yes, indeed! What attention a certain banker paid her!" "He! he! he! yes; he is very fatherly very!"
It almost seemed as though the world of ice and snow itself had taken umbrage at Macnab's song, for, while we were yet in the act of enthusiastically prolonging the last "sno-o-ow," there sounded in our ears a loud report, as if of heavy artillery close at hand. We all leaped up in excitement, as if an enemy were at our doors.
In his heart, he trusted only the old Tories, and not all his disgust at MacNab's interested advances could alter his conviction that one party alone cared for Britain the former Family Compact men.
It is true that the frost can scarcely be said to have represented the Highlander's temperament; but if there be truth in the saying that extremes meet, it may be admissible to say that intense cold, which had the effect of expanding water into ice so that it rent the very rocks, might be appropriately compared with that intense warmth of Macnab's feelings which had the effect of all but bursting his very bosom!
Two men paddled the canoe, one in the bow and one in the stern. It conveyed a message from headquarters directing that two of the clerks should be sent to establish an outpost in the regions of the far north, the very region from which Macnab's friend Big Otter had come.
"No doubt she's a rugged specimen of the sex," said Lumley, as we sat beside the fire that night, "no other kind of white female would venture to face this wilderness for the sake of a brother; but she is a white woman, and she is only two hundred miles off unless our friend is joking and she's Macnab's sister Jessie, if I remember rightly "`Stalwart young Jessie, The flower of "
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