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Lawrence could not resist the temptation to ride forward and offer his own horse, although Colonel Marchbanks rode alongside of his daughter like an inflexible guardian. "You will find my horse much easier to manage, Miss Marchbanks," he said, "and quite as strong and fleet as your own." The colonel frowned, and his daughter said, "No, t'ank you, senhor," with a little bow and a brilliant smile.
Van Alstyne went off with some friends to the Isles of Shoals, and Alice and Adelaide Marchbanks went with her; so that we knew we should see nothing of the two great families for a good many days; and when Leslie came, or the Haddens, we did not so much mind; besides, they knew that we were busy, and they did not expect any "coil" got up for them.
Somebody was Harry Goldthwaite, sitting there beside her; Barbara, with only her head visible, was behaving, out here in this unconventional place and time, with a tranquillity and composure which of late had been apparently impossible to her in parlors. "What will Mrs. Marchbanks do with Mrs. Hobart after this, I wonder?" Mrs. Holabird heard Harry say.
It was evident that the landlord had failed to arouse his interest. At that moment the first dance came to an end, and there was a stir at the upper end of the room, where was another door of entrance. "It's the colonel," exclaimed the landlord, hurrying forward. Colonel Marchbanks entered with a lady on either arm.
"Her ups and downs are just like yours," said Dakie Thayne to Ruth Holabird. It made Ruth very glad to be told she was at all like Leslie; it gave her an especially quick pulse of pleasure to have Dakie Thayne say so. She knew he thought there was hardly any one like Leslie Goldthwaite. "O, they won't exactly do, you know!" said Adelaide Marchbanks, with an air of high free-masonry.
At the same moment Antonio, Ignacio, Spotted Tiger, Colonel Marchbanks, and the sporting Englishman sprang to the front, and the old hunter, cutting Pedro's bonds, put a musket into his hands. "Traitor!" exclaimed Cruz, grinding his teeth with passion, as he scowled at Antonio. "Fool! do you not know," retorted Antonio, contemptuously, "that traitors are the offspring of tyrants?
But she had her justification for her attempt from Mrs. Marchbanks's own lips, and she must take up her opportunity as it came to her, following her clew right end first. She meant simply to tell Mrs. Marchbanks how she had happened to think of it.
Snow still fell in the morning, but the worst of the storm seemed over when Marchbanks again started to try for Tweedshaws to ascertain if MacGeorge and Goodfellow had won their way through.
Marchbanks, to whom just then her sister came and said something, and drew her off. Ruth's fingers flew over the keys; and it must have been magnetism that guided them, for in her brain quite other quick notes were struck, and ringing out a busy chime of their own. "If I only could!" she was saying to herself. "If they really would have me, and they would let me at home. Then I could go to Mr.
Marchbanks her own keys, which she had brought down stairs. That lady opened her safe and took out her silver, which Arthur Marchbanks and James Hobart received from her and carried away. Mrs. Hobart herself went up the step-ladder that stood there before the shelves, and began to hand down piles of plates, and heavy single pieces. "Keep folks out, Elijah," she ordered to her man. We all helped.
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