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Left alone with the bandit, Pell remarked: "Look here, there must be some way to settle this thing." But he had grave fears. "To zat, I 'ave come at last," the bandit replied with an emphasis that could not be mistaken. "You have?" Pell's voice was weak. "It shall cost me planty money. I could 'ave tooken you wiz me for ransom 'elluva big ransom a million dollar, mebbe. But I am not soddid!"
I could hear him stirrin' 'round up there when I was for'ard just now, and he hollered to the wheel that up to the no'the'ard it looked like planty of fish. 'And I callate we ain't the only vessel got eyes for it, he said." "Yes," said his watch-mate, who had just dropped down, "it's nothing but side-lights all 'round and " Just then came the skipper's voice from aloft.
But the amount of intercourse on such occasions between them was generally trifling. The duke would smile as he put out his right hand to his nephew, and say, "Well, Plantagenet, very busy, I suppose?" The duke was the only living being who called him Plantagenet to his face, though there were some scores of men who talked of Planty Pal behind his back.
"If it hadn't been for Miss Mollie, I don't know where I'd be now. I married right after freedom. My husband, Alexander Boynton and I stayed right on the plantation and farmed on the shares. "We had planty of children, 18 in all. three sets of twins. They all grew up, except the twins, they didn't any of them get old enough to get married, but all the rest lived and raised children.
"Palliser is coming without her," he said in his loud clear voice, thinking nothing of his wife's nephew. "She's ill, she says." "I'm sorry for it," said one man. "She's a deal the better fellow of the two." "She has twice more go in her than Planty Pall," said another. "Planty is no fool, I can tell you," said Sir Cosmo, coming to the table with his plate full of pie.
"Very well, then; it is up to you to get away, and I take it that you understand this river. Where is the main current along here?" "From de p'int yonder, over ter de east shore." "And the depth of water across from us? We are going to head up stream." "Yas, sah; yer plannin' fer ter go nor'. Wal, sah, dars planty o' watah fer dis yere boat right now, wid de spring floods.
But fear no more," he assured her. "For I, your frand, shall make you also 'appy." He put his arm around her. She was fearful of his plans. "What are you going to do?" she cried. Lopez laughed. "Wait and see. Life shall be yours. And love! Planty money! All what your 'eart desire. Now go...." Pedro started to show them out the door. Gilbert, seeing the movement, said: "But I don't understand ..."
Sir Cosmo, when he had broken the ominous silence, had done so with a manifest struggle. The loud clatter of glasses with which Burgo had swallowed his dram, as though resolved to show that he was regardless who might know that he was drinking, added to the feeling. It may easily be understood that there was no further word spoken at that breakfast-table about Planty Pall or his wife.
"Wather is a blessed thing, and it's hard will be the heart that does not fale gratitude for a planty of swate wather." "The maty has plenty of food and water where he is," said Jack. "I'll answer for both them sarcumstances.
"This kind of thing won't do long, you know," repeated Mr Bott for the second or third time, as he stood upon the rug before the fire at his club, with one or two of his young friends around him. "I suppose not," said Calder Jones, the hunting Member of Parliament whom we once met at Roebury. "Planty Pall won't stand it, I should say."
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