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"We can't break through a bunch like that, Habert," was Davies' comment. "And if we die under their feet we'll be of little use to Billy Boy or anybody else up the Panuco," Wemple added. "And if " A new movement of the mob caused him to break off. It was splitting before a slow and silent advance of a file of white-clad men. "Bluejackets Mayo's come back for us after all," Habert muttered.
"P'raps I could jes' knock on Miss Mayo's do'," he suggested after a thought-filled interval. "That's all I want," agreed Laurie. "Knock at her door and ask her if Mr. Devon may call at nine and take her out to breakfast. Tell her he has something very important to say to her." "Yaas, sah." The guardian was all humility.
It is very odd that, riding as well as she does, she should be so miserably nervous on horseback.... I drove to Mrs. Mayo's, who impressed and affected me very much. Those magnificent eyes of hers are becoming dim; she is growing blind, with eyes like dark suns. I could not help expressing the deep concern I felt for such a calamity.
Annabel opened a window a few inches, took the spyglass from its rack, adjusted it, laid it on the sill of the open window and knelt, the glass at her eye. The floor of the cupola was very dusty and she was wearing her newest and best gown, but she did not seem to mind. Through the glass she saw the long slope of Cannon Hill, with the beacon at the top and Captain Mayo's house near it.
"Who on airth would be comin' here such a day as this?" Captain Jerry joined her at the window. "It's Abner Mayo's horse," he said. "Maybe it's Perez comin' home." It was not Captain Perez, but Mr. Mayo himself, as they saw when the rubber blanket fastened across the front of the buggy was dropped and the driver sprang out. Mrs. Snow opened the door for him.
When he was fully dressed he crossed the room in three strides and stopped before the mirror with a suddenness that checked him half-way in the fourth. Miss Mayo's window was open. He could see that. He could see more than that, and what he saw sent him rushing through the study and out into the hall of the big apartment building, where he furiously rang the elevator bell.
No person of distinction ever came to Richmond without calling at Bellville, the entrée to which was an unquestioned passport to the best society of the city. Mrs. Mayo's eldest daughter, Maria, was the most celebrated Virginia belle of her day.
The apple given by a friend is worth ten times more than a whole orchard bestowed in such a way as to make you feel that the gift is but the superfluity of the donor. I remained for ten months a member of Mr. Mayo's family; when he received a call to Albany, and changes had to be made in his household.
"Then I don't want any. Take it away, Martha," and he pushed aside the spoon. "Do with Anne wath here," lisped Arthur. "I got her thweater yolled up smooth to keep for her. Whyn't she come?" No one could tell him. Miss Farlow wished Miss Drayton, according to Mr. Mayo's request, to take charge of the child's jewels. But Miss Drayton refused. "You keep them, please," she urged.
With a howl and a rush they came, but from three sides volley after volley was poured into them, the white men using their shot guns. The effect was terrible, and soon the square was cleared of all but the dead and the wounded. A cessation fell, and Mayo's voice could be heard, shouting at his men.
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