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And the house Duncan had his metaphorical eye upon was large enough to shelter Nat himself in addition to the Graham family. Thus they might pool their living expenses to the economical advantage of each. Finally, it would be a great and glad surprise for Betty on her homecoming. Graham fell in with the scheme without a murmur of dubiety or dissent.
Well, well; to think you didn't know that! Wonder if Lizzie does?" "She don't!" Mrs. Butterfield said, excitedly; "course she don't. She's calculatin' on havin' that pension same as ever. Why, she can't marry Nat. Goodness! I guess I'll just step down and tell her. Lucky you told me to-night; to-morrow it would 'a' been too late!"
I can always earn a living while I have my strength. Please don't worry. If he comes tell him I have gone you do not know where. That will be true, for you don't. I hope you will be very happy. I do hope so. Oh, John, you don't know how I hate to do this, but I must. Don't tell Nat. He would do something terrible to him if he came, and Nat knew.
"'This Loller here wol precilen us somewhat. 'Nay by my father's soule! that schal he nat, Sayde the Schipman, 'here schal he not preche, We schal no gospel glosen here ne teche. We leven all in the gret God, quod he. He wolden sowen some diffcultee." Canterbury Tales. Dorothea had been safe at Freshitt Hall nearly a week before she had asked any dangerous questions.
From that night Nat Quinn took a great fancy to the young man and often hinted that he was going to make his fortune. He told of hidden treasure, but never definitely; spoke of a great fortune to be had for the lifting, and promised Wallace that he should go halves. No doubt he trusted the boy, but the habit of secrecy had grown too strong easily to be broken.
A few minutes later the boat careened over gently, and glided fast through the water, while I steered, making for an opening which Uncle Dick made out with his glass to be the mouth of a valley running up the country. "It's too far off to see all I want, Nat," he said, as he closed his glass; "but I fancy we shall find a river there, and we'll run in and try our luck.
As we lay down to sleep that night I felt more wakeful than ever I had been before, and I could hear my uncle turning restlessly about. All at once he broke the silence by whispering, "Asleep, Nat?" "Asleep? No; I've got quetzal on the brain, and the birds seem to be pecking at my shoulder on both sides with red-hot beaks. How do you feel?" "In agony, my boy.
The mob stripped him, gave him a great number of lashes, and sent him on foot, naked, under a hot sun, to Richmond, whence he with difficulty found a passage to New York. Of the capture or escape of most of that small band who met with Nat Turner in the woods upon the Travis plantation, little can now be known. All appear among the list of convicted, except Henry and Will. Gen.
This was Friday night, and very impatiently she awaited an answer, which, though written on Monday, did not come until the Wednesday following. "What does she say?" cried Mrs. Deane and Alice, crowding around her, while with a rueful face she read that Dora would be delighted to meet Uncle Nat at Locust Grove, but could not come quite so soon as they wished to have her.
Ho, ho, it is too late, Nat too late!" He staggered back, gripping his throat, and fell upon the floor. "Too late too late," he moaned, groveling weakly, as if struggling for breath. "Too late Nat Marion " A shiver passed through his body and he lay quite still. In an instant Nathaniel was upon his knees beside the prostrate form of the old councilor.
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