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It was rather a striking performance, quite stately and impressive, for when one's left shoulder is made immovable by much bandaging it is difficult, as Neil breathlessly explained, to display abandon the latter spoken through the nose to give it the correct French pronunciation. "And, if you're not good to me," laughed Sydney, "I'll get back at you in practise.
The blood flooded into the girl's face, as turning to her Aunt she said very quietly, but with a dignity which Mrs. Stewart dared not encroach upon: "I am very sorry to seem in any way discourteous or disobliging, Aunt Katherine, but Daddy Neil and Compadre, have always wished Tzaritza to accompany me when I ride.
"You wish to see my husband?" the woman asked; and Jees Uck gasped at the liquid silver of a voice that had never sounded harsh cries at snarling wolf-dogs, nor moulded itself to a guttural speech, nor toughened in storm and frost and camp smoke. "No," Jees Uck answered slowly and gropingly, in order that she might do justice to her English. "I come to see Neil Bonner."
She is entirely beyond Harrison and Mammy now, and her father hasn't even a passing acquaintance with his only child. He THINKS he has, and he loves her devotedly, but there's more to Peggy Stewart in one hour than Neil Stewart will discover in years at the rate of two months out of twelve spent with her. I think the world of the child, but Polly is MY girl, and has slipped into Constance's place.
The fishermen had hit upon a new idea and were using it for all it was worth, while there seemed no way by which we could get the better of them. About this time Neil Partington happened along from the Lower Bay, where he had been for a number of weeks. With him was Nicholas, the Greek boy who had helped us in our raid on the oyster pirates, and the pair of them took a hand.
Don't worry about this, but keep yourself cheerful and " Neil leaned his head against the pillow and closed his eyes. "Oh, go 'way," he muttered miserably. When Paul came in half an hour later he found Neil staring motionless out of the window, settled melancholy on his face. "How bad is it, chum?" asked Paul. He hadn't called Neil "chum" for over a week not since their quarrel.
Flanagan was the first up the next morning, for the purpose of keeping an appointment which he had with Biddy Neil, whom we have already introduced to the reader.
Neil was very quiet the remainder of the evening, though he could not altogether resist Grey, who was at his best, and kept them all in a roar of laughter at his jokes and the stories he told of the genuine Yankees whom he had seen in New England, and the Johnny Bulls he had encountered in England, and whose peculiarities of voice and expression he imitated perfectly.
"Never a coward, Toby, never a coward," my grandmother cried out piteously, kissing his hand. My grandfather put out his arm and drew me close to him. "We must bear it together, we three," he said. We had dinner in the little black-panelled room off the hall, Neil waiting on us with a great assiduity.
The quarter ran after it, made a quick scoop, and attempted to come back but was stopped before he had taken half a dozen steps. Fighting hard, the Ridgley team prevented the visitors from advancing and forced them to kick from their own goal line. Neil Durant caught the punt at mid-field and dashed forward ten yards before he was checked.
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