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I waited, and then, marvelling at the delay, ordered the troop to ride forward to meet the coach. At the corner where this by-way turns from the high road, we found a handkerchief lying on the grass Mistress Payne's handkerchief. Had it not been for such a signal we had ridden past, and might have failed to catch them." "Fairley! Then you have him too?" "We had, sir, but he escaped." "Escaped!"
You remember? 'Yes, sir. 'What did he want? 'He was inquiring about a hat, sir, she hurriedly answered. 'For a lady? 'Yes, sir. 'Thank you. And he hastened back to his central office, and breathed a sigh. 'I have actually spoken to her, he murmured. 'How charming her voice is! But Miss Payne's physical condition desolated him.
She looked to where the tent lights gleamed mistily through the canvas of Payne's camp. Then, after a long while, she dismounted and started to lead her mount toward the tents. Payne stepped forward out of the shadows and into her sight. Neither spoke at first. Surprise had rendered her speechless; and as the silvery moon haze revealed her upturned face Payne was frozen dumb.
Holata Mico and Miconopy made short talks. When Jumper rose he complained that a treaty had been made or rather forced on the Indians at Payne's Landing before the twenty years provided in the Camp Moultrie treaty had expired.
"I want no other maid," said Barbara. "There is some reason why the girl does not return to me, and you know that reason." "I can guess." "It is easy to understand," Barbara returned. "The streets of Dorchester are not safe for any honest woman to-day." "That may be so, madam, but I do not think it is the reason of Mistress Payne's desertion. I think fear has stepped in.
Persons who are in love with the beauty of restraint as regards ornament, and hold to the doctrine which Flaubert so well understood and practised, and Pater so persistently preached will consider Payne's translation incomparably the finer.
It was said, to use an Arabian Nights expression, that he had hauled up all the dead donkeys in the sea. "Mr. Payne's translation," says the writer, "is not only a fine piece of English, it is also, save where the exigencies of rhyme compelled a degree of looseness, remarkably literal.... Mr.
Gabrielle, however, was quite unconscious of the struggle that divided Mrs. Payne's breast. She was a child launched on a holiday with the friend of her choice in the most delightful season of the year. She didn't scent any hostility in the atmosphere of Overton; and this was strange in a person who moved through life by the aid of intuitions rather than reasons.
The next day Silas saw the party in Squire Payne's big wagon, with Thomas driving, and the cousin's pink cheeks and white plumed hat conspicuous in the midst, pass merrily on their way to a cherryless picnic at a neighboring pond, and the young college men shouted out a doggerel couplet which the wit of the party had made and set to a rough tune.
"Say, Barney, Thomas Payne's got your girl; did you know it, Barney?" Barney turned threateningly, but he was helpless before his brother's sickly face, and Ephraim knew it. That purple hue and that panting breath had gained an armistice for him on many a battle-field, and he had a certain triumph in it. It was power of a lugubrious sort, certainly, but still it was power, and so to be enjoyed.
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