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I's on'y habin' a stroll in de gardin an' come here kite by haxidint. Go on wid your leetle game, an' nebber mind me. I's on'y a nigger." Colonel Marchbanks could not decide whether to laugh or storm. Manuela decided the question for him by inviting the negro to enter, which he did with humble urbanity. "Shake hands with him, father.
You mus' nebber steal no more nebber. But I'll get massa to buy you a hoss. Das what I'll do." Quashy had scarcely given utterance to his intentions, when a shout from Lawrence summoned him. The party under Colonel Marchbanks was about to start on their journey eastward. The negro soon informed his master of his difficulty. As he had anticipated, it was removed at once.
"Tell me," cried Lawrence, suddenly shaking off the dream of unbelief, advancing a step, and gazing so intensely into the colonel's eyes that the man of war made a quick, involuntary, motion with his right hand towards his sword, "Tell me, Colonel Marchbanks is Manuela, who, I thought, was an Inca princess, really your daughter!"
You just go off with the children. I'll see to things. Let me have your keys." "They're all in my upper bureau-drawer," said Mrs. Marchbanks. "Besides, there isn't much locked, except the silver. I wish Matilda would come." Matilda is Mrs. Lewis Marchbanks. "The children can go there, of course." "It is too far," said Mrs. Hobart. "Go and make them go to bed in my great front room.
Colonel Marchbanks, Manuela, and the fair Mariquita followed. Antonio, Spotted Tiger, the sportsman and his friend came next, and Lawrence with Quashy and Sooz'n brought up the rear. In this order they set off at full gallop over the roadless plains, diverging a little here and there as the nature of the ground required, but otherwise steering a straight line in the direction of the rising sun.
Hadden will do the same, you will have two thirds of Viertelnote's price." "O, that is so nice!" said Ruth, gratefully. "Then in half a quarter I could begin. And perhaps in that time I might get another." "I shall be exceedingly interested in your getting on," said Mrs. Marchbanks, as Ruth arose to go.
Marchbanks was "particularly engaged." Besides her gown, Mrs. Hobart had her theory, all ready for a fire. Just exactly what she should do, first and next, and straight through, in case of such a thing. She had recited it over to herself and her family till it was so learned by heart that she believed no flurry of the moment would put it wholly out of their heads. She went straight up Mrs.
Van Alstyne had walked over with Olivia and Adelaide Marchbanks, and it was she who suggested it. "Why don't you have regular practisings," said she, "and then a meeting, for this and the archery you wanted to get up, and games for a prize? They would do nicely together." Olivia Marchbanks drew up a little. She had not meant to launch the project here.
Now, our dining-room had not yet even the English drugget. The dark new boards would do for summer weather, mother said. "If it had been real oak, polished!" Rosamond thought. "But hard-pine was kitcheny." Ruth went to bed with the rest of her thinking and the brook-music flittering in her brain. Mrs. Lewis Marchbanks had talked behind her with Jeannie Hadden about her playing.
We should not tell you if we did not know; it begins right there among them, in just such things as these; and our day and our life are full of it. The Marchbanks set had a way of taking things off people's hands, as soon as they were proved worth while.
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