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She had not said a word nor sought to detain him; but when he turned the corner something seemed all of a sudden to stop in her heart; and the strong girl fainted in Hester's arms. In this land of justice there is nothing more incomprehensible than the extraordinary weight and power of merely circumstantial evidence. Never was there a more honest young fellow than Will Scarlett.
It was a hard struggle, for with those two fierce-looking troopers watching him along the barrels of their pieces, Fred's inclination was still to turn and gallop away as fast as his horse would go. But at that moment he raised his eyes, and could see that Scarlett was looking down at him, as if to watch the effect of Sir Godfrey's words.
Great Aunt Sophronisba was my aunt not by blood but by marriage; she having, when she was no longer what is known as a spring chicken, met my Great-Uncle Johnny Scarlett and scandalized all Hyndsville by marrying him out of hand.
The flames and their accompanying suffocating fumes advanced so fast that for the moment the terrible peril unnerved Scarlett.
Some people say it's a sort of figure of Queen Anne, after whom the ship is named, but I don't take her to be that; and now in the moonlight you can see her well now, Bet, in the moonlight with the smile showing upon her lips, she looks like what I take her to be more than ever." "And what is that, Will?" "Hope aye, lass, a right good hope and luck to Will Scarlett comes in the bonny ship."
Now, then, lay hold, and I'll have you up to where you can climb." "Go on, Scar." "Go on, Fred." The boys spoke together, and, after a little argument, Scarlett seized the rope, felt himself hoisted up, and, once up at the slope, he soon reached daylight, Fred following in the same way, to stand in the sunshine, gazing at his companions, who, like himself, were covered with perspiration and dust.
'You speak well, said Robin, 'and you, Little John, go to my treasure chest, and bring me thence four hundred pounds. And be sure you count it truly. So Little John went, and Will Scarlett, and they brought back the money. 'Sir, said Little John, when Robin had counted it and found it no more nor no less, 'look at his clothes, how thin they are!
A place where Walpole succeeded and Addison failed; where Dundas succeeded and Burke failed; where Peel now succeeds and where Mackintosh fails; where Erskine and Scarlett were dinner-bells; where Lawrence and Jekyll, the two wittiest men, or nearly so, of their time, were thought bores, is surely a very strange place. And yet I feel the whole character of the place growing upon me.
One by one they slipped away, till only Little John and Will Scarlett were left. Then Robin himself grew home-sick, and at the sight of some young men shooting thought upon the time when he was accounted the best archer in all England, and went straightway to the King and begged for leave to go on a pilgrimage to Bernisdale.
"What! and leave you, father?" cried Scarlett, excitedly. "Yes. You cannot get away here for the fire. Run upstairs, my boy, quick leap from one of the windows." "If you will come with me, father," said Scarlett. "No, no, my boy; I am helpless. Make haste. The fire for Heaven's sake, make haste!"
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