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He soon entered the bushes on the margin of the lake and was hid from view. Whatever impression the morality of Natty made on the Judge, it was utterly lost on Richard. He availed himself of the gathering of the sportsmen, to lay a plan for one fell swoop of destruction.
"But there are no nuns so white as the ghost." "True, but you may rely upon me. The nun's robes shall be there, the phosphorous, the blue fire, and a selection of the choicest company to tremble at you. Leave the whole business to my care. It will amuse me to plan so exquisite a jest for so lovely a jester."
For twenty-four hours at least she was free from love's importunity she could be alone to think, and to plan. She turned to Priscilla with a gentle look and smile. "I'll go into the garden," she said "and when it's tea-time you'll come and fetch me, won't you? I shall be near the old stone knight, Sieur Amadis "
"Well said, men. Now, one good hearty cheer; no, stop, I should like them to be caught in their own traps. I know their plan.
'His strength is so tender, his wildness so meek, That a suitable parallel sets one to seek, He's a John Bunyan Fouqué, a Puritan Tieck; When Nature was shaping him, clay was not granted For making so full-sized a man as she wanted, So to fill out her model, a little she spared From some finer-grained stuff for a woman prepared, And she could not have hit a more excellent plan For making him fully and perfectly man.
"If the dog comes after us," said Larry, "I'd drop a stone on him, out of a tree, just the way the good son did in the story, and kill him dead." "But there's never a tree anywhere about," said Eileen. "Sure, that is no plan at all." "That's a true word," said Larry, when he had looked all about for a tree, and found none. "We'll have to think of something else." Then he thought and thought.
The best plan will be for me to ride back to Avoncester, and send out Macvicar, our doctor. He is a kind-hearted man, of much experience in this kind of thing." "But you are not going back," said polite Mrs. Curtis, far from taking in the urgency of the case. "You were to sleep at Colonel Keith's. I could not think of your taking the trouble." "I have settled that with the Colonel, thank you.
My first is to see Inez and find out whether she will follow my fortunes or remain to become some day Marchesa of Sottomayor. If she adopts the former alternative I have to arrange some plan to carry her off and to get out of the country, an operation in which I foresee no little difficulty. Of course if we are caught my life is forfeited, there is no question about that.
Decoud has been reading to us his draft of a proclamation, and talking very well for two hours about his plan of action.
There was no further need of concealment, and with exceeding care Bert studied the features of the man who he felt sure was involved in some plan that boded no good to Pedro's employer. The fellow was tall and heavily built, and dressed in a more gaudy style than that usually affected by the cowboys. Bert could not remember having seen him among the employees of the neighboring ranches.