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Carleton knew him better than to press the matter any further; and her fondness easily forgave the offence against herself, especially as her son almost immediately resumed his ordinary manner. It had well nigh passed from the minds of both parties, when in the middle of the next day, Mr. Carleton asked what had become of Fleda? he had not seen her except at the breakfast-table. Mrs.
We plied to get to the southward, intending to pass between Bouro and Keelang. In the evening, being near the west end of Bouro, we saw a brigantine to the north-west of us, on the north side of Bouro, standing to the eastward. I would not stand east or west for fear of coming nigh the land which was on each side of us, namely Bouro on the west, and Keelang on the east.
Anybody could have told that with half an eye." "How long have you been serving on juries, Mr. Martin?" "Going nigh on twenty-three years. I had my first case when I was a young man. It was a minor case a robbery. I won that despite my youth and inexperience. In those days the cases were much harder than now on account of the lawyers.
They were taken, as thou mayest lightly guess, yet they gat them nigh clear of the liberties ere they could again be captivated. Fire! ay, that hath she, and ever will. Forsooth, that is the cause wherefore she harried her son. If she would have sat still at her spinning, he'd have left her be. But, look thou, she could not leave him be." "Wherein did she seek to let him, wot you?"
Beware!" menaced the nurse; then, as Leslie would have broken from her "Have it, then! He is the brother of that Alice Boswell who perished in the burning of Earlscraig nigh twenty years ago." "Poor lady, Bridget," Leslie said, with a bewildered, excited sob. "Poor unhappy lady; but what has that to do with him, with me? I understand no better. Help me, Bridget Kennedy a woman, like myself.
With a yell, I fetched a swipe at it with my boot; but it was gone, like a shadow, before I hit it; an' the boot flew out o' my hand an' went over the cliff, an' me pretty nigh after it. I jest caught myself, an' hung on, kind o' shaky, fer a minute.
She had but to run a few steps to the vestibule and there to call loudly to the populace that even now was invading the slope of the hill toward her house. She had but to rush to her door and to shout boldly: "The Cæsar is here, and the praefect of Rome is nigh!" And the twenty men who were waiting with naked swords would be as naught before the onslaught of the people.
"The folks in the mountings air mighty nigh skeered out'n thar boots by yer foolishness, Brent" she sought to conserve a mien of reproof. "They 'low ez it war a manifestation of the Evil One." Brent laughed delightedly. "Warn't it prime?" he said. "But I never expected ter work sech a scatteration of the crowd Thar skeer plumb terrified me.
Next day the boat came back, confirming what was said; assuring him, they had viewed the ships so nigh, that they had been in great danger of their shot, hereunto they added, that the biggest ship was mounted with forty guns, the second with thirty, and the smallest with twenty-four.
Dobry to the oftenest. He's going to borrow money from us, and we'd like to find out something about his habits; specially where he spends his spare time, and all that sort of thing, you understand. You know where he goes in your cab. 'Of course I do, I says; 'I drove him and Dr. John here nigh a twelvemonth ago.
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