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'You have a nerve, said the rifleman, his voice shaking a little. 'Looks like he don't fire on redcoats; but you have a nerve all the same. 'Or else he may be gone, suggested the sergeant, and on the instant corrected himself; 'but I warn you not to reckon upon that. Is there a window facing on him anywhere, round the bend of the street? 'I dunno.
Indeed, such a flaccid, fluid, pouchy carcass, I have never before seen. It has absolutely no muscular tension or rigidity, but is as baggy and shaky as a skin filled with water. Let the rifleman shoot one while it lies basking on a sidelong rock, and its body slumps off, and rolls and spills down the hill, as if it were a mass of bowels only.
The female, on the contrary, stirred not, but ceasing for a moment the occupation in which she had been engaged, fixed her dark and brilliant eyes upon the tall and picturesque form of the rifleman, whose active and athletic limbs, thrown into powerful relief by the distention of each nerve and muscle, appeared to engross her whole admiration and interest, without any reference to the cause that had produced this abrupt and hostile change in his movements.
The next instant his knife fairly leaped from its beaded sheath; there was a flash of steel, a ripping sound, and his blue and scarlet blanket lay divided. Half of it he flung to a rifleman, and the other half, with his shirt, he rolled and tied to his pack. Such zeal and obedience pleased me, and I smiled and nodded to him. He showed his teeth at me, which I fancied was his mode of smiling.
"What chance have I, a poor rifleman, who may not even wear his hair clubbed and powdered." Only field and staff now powdered in our corps. I said: "Heaven hasten your advancement, sir." "Not that I'd care a fig," he protested, "if I had your yellow, curly head, you rogue.
Not that I doubt myself, yet, who can say what I shall be? Only three, Euan God, the man who loves me, and myself." "I sit here waiting for a rifleman to take my letter to the General who has promised to commit it to the runner. "A regiment is trying its muskets at the lake. I hear the firing. "I have a tallow dip and wax and sand, ready to close my letter instantly. No one comes."
All is drawn on my map as we see it here before us; and this should be the fine dwelling of that great villain Holmes, now used as a tavern by Benjamin Hays." "Rap on the door," said Boyd; and our rifleman escort rode forward and drove his rifle-butt at the door, "There's a man hiding within and peering at us behind the third window," I whispered. "I see him," said Boyd coolly.
Among the first to rally to this call, one rifleman in particular, a fine, broad-shouldered active fellow, with a brown moustache and olive complexion, darts forward to the point indicated. It is Claudet.
'Most sorry to have unintentionally awakened unavailing regrets, came the voice. 'But I mean, honour bright, you have no attendant armed vessel? 'None, I promised you so, said Mr. Macrae; 'I am a man of my word. Come on deck if you doubt me and look for yourself. 'Not me, and get shot by a rifleman, said the voice. 'It is very distressing to be distrusted in this manner, replied Mr. Macrae.
I'll call for you and bring you both down to Lebong if I may, Mrs. Smith." "Will you lunch with us then?" asked Ida. "You know where I am staying the Woodbrook Hotel. Noreen is coming there too." "Thank you, I'll be delighted," replied the Rifleman. "Very well. One o'clock sharp. Now we'll say good-bye for the present."
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