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While the squire was thus employed, his master engaged in conversation with the stranger, who happened to be a London dealer travelling for orders, and was well acquainted with the particulars which our adventurer wanted to know. It was from this communicative tradesman he learned, that the competitors were Sir Valentine Quickset and Mr.
I'm going to believe in you thoroughly." Deacon Quickset, who was closely following his new charge, listened with fixed countenance to the lady's remark. He followed Sam from the church, snatched him away from the wife who had joined him, and said, "Samuel, that experience of yours rather disappointed me. It wasn't all there. There was something left out, a good deal left out."
They were suburban houses, and there were yet more fields of reeds, quickset hedges, olive-trees overtopping long walls, and big gateways with vase-surmounted pillars; but at last came the city with its rows of small grey houses, its petty shops and its dingy taverns, whence at times came shouts and rumours of battle.
And she got to her feet, and sped down th' lane like one blind, running first into th' hawthorn bushes o' this side, then into th' quickset hedge o' th' other, and tearing out her loosened tresses on th' low-hanging branches o' th' pear-trees, so that I traced her by her hair i' th' twigs, like as thou wouldst trace any poor lost lamb by its wool on the brambles.
Dat's more dan you can say about your business, Deacon Quickset. Any rascal can go in de business dat you is doin' now." "Well," said the deacon, beginning to feel that he was on dangerous ground, "this wasn't what we were talking about, anyhow.
And that simple mention of her sister, of whom Marie had not spoken since her arrival at Lourdes, but whose figure now unexpectedly arose in her mind's eye, sufficed to evoke a vision of all the past. Then, without exchanging a word, Marie and Pierre lived their childhood's days afresh, playing together once more in the neighbouring gardens parted by the quickset hedge.
It is long before you realise that it is all on a gigantic scale; that the quickset hedges are belts of rhododendrons of full growth, the water-jumps rivers, and the stone walls mountain-ridges; that to hunt a country like that you would have to ride a horse at least two hundred feet high.
Nevertheless, something drove him on, forced him to push his way hardily through a sort of quickset hedge of reluctance and shame. "No, I don't expect absurdities. I am not such a fool. But but you do it so well!" "Do what well?" "Everything connected with deception. You are such a mistress of it." "Well?" "Isn't that rather strange?"
So, without the slightest emotion of sentimentality, I put a ball through his head. Let us now hark back to the blue-cow, beautiful and breathless. Satisfied, for the nonce, with my prowess in laying it low, I plunged into the forest, just to explore. I must have rambled several miles, when I suddenly came upon an impervious barrier of quickset.
I am a member of the church, myself, and I have as hearty an interest in you and sympathy for you as the best friend you have. But I want to ask you one thing, merely out of curiosity. Has any one questioned you, since, about what you said that evening?" "Nobody but Deacon Quickset, ma'am." "Ah? Deacon Quickset? Did he say anything that annoyed you in any way?"
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