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You see, there is glory enough in all this, and glory that I should like to have a share in; but glory is a luxury that I can't afford. I've got to go to work at something that has money in it." The sound of Rayburn's voice had the effect on Young of waking him up.
It's clear that these fellows cannot tell us anything. We'd better keep on down to the landing; if the Padre has gone" there was a sudden break in Rayburn's voice as he said these words "it's pretty certain that he has gone by water, and we may come across somebody down there who happened to be awake and saw him start."
And Rayburn's admiration for the professional skill of this engineer of a long past age was still further excited when the path came fairly into the valley, and thence was carried downward along the gentle slope towards the lake, by a perfectly even two-per-cent. grade, over a broad way paved smoothly with squared blocks of stone.
He next served as a private for two months, commencing in January, 1776, known as the "Snow Campaign," in Captain William Alexander's company, and Colonel Thomas Folk's regiment, and marched to Rayburn's creek, where the Tories were dispersed. In one of the skirmishes, William Polk was wounded in the shoulder.
In the bright light of the early morning we could see below us a glad little valley, in which trees and grass grew, and in the centre of which was a tiny lake. But what gave as most joy was seeing birds flying over the face of the water, and half a dozen mountain sheep scampering away at the sound of Rayburn's shot.
It was from a most agreeable nap in which I was dreaming pleasantly of my old life in Ann Arbor that I was roused suddenly by Rayburn's quick grip upon my shoulder, and by his sharp whisper, "What's that?" In an instant I was thoroughly awake, and as I bent forward and listened intently I heard very distinctly a faint cry of alarm, that seemed to come from a long way off.
But partly owing to a want of skill in our management of him, yet more to his own unruliness for just as we started him, with a strong push, he clapped down his fore-feet upon the edge of the cliff and so checked his swing outward he did not swing within reach of Rayburn's hands.
Rayburn's interest was concentrated on Mrs. Zant; he took no notice of the apology. "When did this happen?" he asked. "About a quarter of an hour ago. I was fortunately at home. Without speaking to me, without noticing me, she walked upstairs like a person in a dream." Mr. Rayburn suddenly pointed to Mrs. Zant. "Look at her!" he said. "There's a change!"
Rayburn's language was not open to the charge of weakness; but the words in which Young gave vent to his feelings were so startlingly vigorous that even a Wyoming cow-boy would have been surprised by them; yet I must confess that at the moment so greatly was my own anger aroused I thought his observations exceedingly appropriate to the occasion that called them forth, and I even was disposed to envy him the command of a technical vocabulary that enabled him to express so adequately his righteous wrath.
Now Fieldsy has shown me what was the matter I hadn't flour enough. Fieldsy is a dear and so are you!" She plunged at Celia, brown bread and all, and kissed the top of her head, tweaked a lock of Captain Rayburn's thick hair, and was flying away when Celia spoke. "You're the biggest dear of anybody," she said, with a smile.
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