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He had scarcely done so when deep in the undergrowth of blackthorn a hound challenged. "Spendigo for a fiver! and well found, by the tune of it," cried Sir Harry. "See that patch of grey wall, Rablin there, in a line beyond the Master's elbow? I lay you an even guinea that's where my gentleman comes over." But honest reprobation mottled the face of Mr.
"My dears," she said to her mates later on, "I don't mind telling you I was all of a twitter, first-along, wondering what card that man Oke was holding back he looked so sly and so sure of hisself. But if he've no better card to play than Seth Ede, we can sleep easy." "Seth Ede's a powerful strong oar," Bess Rablin objected. "Was, you mean.
He spoke quietly at fifteen yards' distance, but each word reached the group of horsemen as clear as a bell. "Rablin," he said, "as a damned fool oblige me during the next few minutes by keeping your mouth shut." With this he resumed his old attitude and his business of watching the covert side; removing his eyes for a moment to nod as Sir Harry rode up and passed on to join the group behind him.
Rablin, squireen; and as an honest man he spoke out. Let it go to his credit, because as a rule he was a snob and inclined to cringe. "I did not expect" he cleared his throat "to see you out to-day, Sir Harry." Sir Harry winced, and turned on them all a grey, woeful face. "That's it," he said. "I can't bide home. I can't bide home." Honoria bided home with her child and mourned for the dead.
And these be the names and weights, more or less: The Indefatigable Woman: Bow, Ann Pengelly, something under eleven stone; No. 2, Thomasine Oliver, ditto; No. 3, Mary Kitty Climo, eleven and a half; No. 4, Long Eliza, thirteen and over, a woman very heavy in the bone; No. 5, Bess Rablin, twelve stone, most of it in the ribs and shoulders; Stroke, Sarah Hancock, twelve stone four; Coxswain, Ann Pengelly's fourth daughter Wilhelmina, weight about six stone.
There was Bess Rablin, too, and Mary Kitty Climo, and Thomasine Oliver, and Long Eliza that married Treleaven the hoveller, and Pengelly's wife Ann; these made up the crew Sally stroked in the great race.
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