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Peachey owed this triumph largely to the firm commonsense of his sister, who plainly refused to let the little fellow quit her care for that of such a woman as he was unfortunate enough to call mother. Christmas came, and with it an unanticipated call from Miss.
Yes, we'll drop in at all of 'em, stringin' out across the country like sideshows on the old Chicago Midway. And one o' these days, when we're gittin' real old, we'll pull up stakes an' start off to locate our last campin' ground. Thar ain't no maps nor surveys to it; it's just somewhar over yonder, and we'll know it on sight, Little Peachey.
'You're a King too, and the half of this Kingdom is yours; but can't you see, Peachey, we want cleverer men than us now three or four of 'em, that we can scatter about for our Deputies.
Peachey, who had walked back from church with her, and who harboured the common delusion that Life selects only slim bodies for its secret agents, did not dream as she watched that enormous figure toil up the staircase that she was gazing upon the movement of destiny.
Two hundred and fifty thousand men, ready to cut in on Russias right flank when she tries for India! Peachey, man, he says, chewing his beard in great hunks, we shall be Emperors Emperors of the Earth! Rajah Brooke will be a suckling to us. Ill treat with the Viceroy on equal terms. Ill ask him to send me twelve picked English twelve that I know of to help us govern a bit.
Dravot came out with his crown on his head, swinging his arms and stamping his feet, and looking more pleased than Punch. "'For the last time, drop it, Dan, says I, in a whisper; 'Billy Fish here says that there will be a row. "'A row among my people! says Dravot. 'Not much. Peachey, you're a fool not to get a wife too.
"But do you know what they did to Peachey between two pine-trees? They crucified him, Sir, as Peachey's hand will show. They used wooden pegs for his hands and feet; but he didn't die. He hung there and screamed, and they took him down next day, and said it was a miracle that he wasn't dead. They took him down poor old Peachey that hadn't done them any harm that hadn't done them any "
Horace flattered himself that he had gained a victory. There was nothing like 'firmness, and that evening, about nine, he went to De Crespigny Park. As usual, he had to ring the bell two or three times before any one came; the lively notes of a piano sounded from the drawing-room, intimating, no doubt, that Mrs. Peachey had guests. The door at length opened, and he bade the servant let Miss.
Always fighting they are, and don't let you sleep at night." "Take some more whisky," I said, very slowly. "What did you and Daniel Dravot do when the camels could go no farther because of the rough roads that led into Kafiristan?" "What did which do? There was a party called Peachey Taliaferro Carnehan that was with Dravot. Shall I tell you about him? He died out there in the cold.
"Peachey," he whispered tenderly, "you hate me but could you kill me; Little Peachey?" And he smiled his great, full-hearted smile. Then her hand fell, her head sunk upon his breast, and a strong shuddering filled all her young body. "Oh, Man, Man!" she breathed, as his arms closed about her. * Vol. By Alice MacGowan and Grace MacGowan Cooke Authors of "Return, A Story of the Sea Islands," etc.
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