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I am for selling our lives as dearly as we can here rather than go outside to be chased like jackals." "I agree with you, Doolan," Captain Rintoul said. "Here we may be able to make terms with them, but once outside the walls we should be at the scoundrels' mercy.
They had already heard that the battery had been unmasked and was ready to open fire, and lamps had been placed in the storeroom in readiness for them. There were pale faces among them, but their thoughts were of those on the roof rather than of themselves. Mrs. Hunter took up the Bible she had been reading, and said, "Tell them, Captain Rintoul, we shall be praying for them."
Copy of statement made by J. Rintoul Mitchell, June 2, 1887: "About the latter end of the year 1883, when I was editor-in-chief of the Englishman in Calcutta, I was told by Captain de Deaux, assistant secretary in the Foreign Office of the Indian Government, that he had received a telegram from Lord Derby to the effect that if General MacIver ventured to land upon the coast of New Guinea it would become the duty of Lord Ripon, Viceroy, to use the naval forces at his command for the purpose of deporting General MacI. Sir Aucland Calvin can certify to this, as it was discussed in the Viceregal Council."
"Is it true? You're no married to him?" "Yes, it is true." "And yet you look as if you was fond o' him. If you cared for him, how could you do it?" "That was why I did it." "And him could hae had wha he liked." "I gave up Lord Rintoul for him." "What? Na, na; you're the Egyptian." "You judge me by my dress." "And soaking it is. How you're shivering what neat fingers what bonny little feet.
If you don't believe me, ask Lord or Lady Rintoul, or any other person in this countryside who knows her." But her Ladyship had already asked, and been annoyed by the answer. She assured Tommy that she believed he was happy. "I have often heard," she said musingly, "that the stout people are the happiest." "I am not so stout," he barked. "Now I call that brave of you," said she, admiringly.
It is a sad annoyance to him that it is so, and he is continually trying to make me believe that there is nothing the matter with me, as if my looks did not speak for themselves." Mrs. Rintoul afterwards told her husband she could hardly say that she liked Miss Hannay.
No doubt they think they will knock the place to pieces in a few minutes. "Listen! there is music; they are coming in grand state. Rintoul, will you tell the workers in the mine to come up. By the way, who are at work now?" "Bathurst and Wilson, sir." "Then tell Wilson to come up, and request Bathurst to go on with the gallery.
"Tell me, McKenzie, that you did not see what I saw." "Rintoul, I beseech you to turn back. We are too late." "We are not too late." Gavin broke through the darkness between them and him, but they were gone. He called to them, and stopped to listen to their feet. "Is that you, Gavin?" Babbie asked just then. For reply, the man who had crept up to her clapped his hand upon her mouth.
I could not decide whether it would be wise to tell him that Gavin was in the school-house, and while I hesitated he continued to shout: "Some woman ... the Session ... Lang Tammas ... God forbid ... maun back to the farm ... byre running like a mill-dam." He signed to me that he must be off, but my signals delayed him, and after much trouble he got my question, "Any news about Lord Rintoul?"
I look upon it as a terribly sad case; but I agree with Captain Rintoul that, in the position in which we are now placed, a man who proves himself to be a coward must be made to feel that he stands apart from us. I should not call it sending him to Coventry, or anything of that sort, but I do think that we should express by our manner that we don't wish to have any communication with him."
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