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Rosco, who was also reduced to a mere shadow of his former self, listened to the faint sound with a troubled expression, for it carried him back to the days of innocence, when he sang it at his mother's knee. "Dat's oncommon strange," said Ebony. "Nebber heard de sound come so far before. Hope de scoundrils no got hold ob grog." "Shame on you, Ebony, to suspect such a thing!" said Orlando.
She could never entirely forgive old George for having prevented her returning to the house to share the fate of her child, and left Sarawak without bidding him farewell, though, as old George himself pathetically remarked, "Me couldn't 'elp it, you knows. De scoundrils kill missis if she goed back, an' dat doos no good to Miss Letty."
"Oh, Monsieur Redding," he exclaimed, "dem squatters, de black scoundrils what is be called Macklodds has bin come at last." "Ho, ho! the McLeods have come, have they?" said Redding, laying down his knife and fork, and looking earnestly at the man; "I had heard of their intention." "Oui, yis, vraiment," said Le Rue, with vehemence, "dey has come to Jenkins Creek more dan tree veeks pass.
"Das so, massa," broke in Quashy, who had listened with glittering eyes to Pedro's narrative, which of course was much more extended and full, "an' you's got no notion how we's banged about our poor shins among dese ruins afore we founded you. S'my b'lief but for de fires we'd nebber hab founded you at all. And dem scoundrils oh! dem scoundrils "
Moreover, it is important that Mr Lumley should know what has prevented my return, both to relieve his mind, and prevent his sending out to search for me." "But sar," objected Salamander, "w'at if me meets vid de vite scoundrils?" "You must fight them, or run away from them." "Vell, me kin fight but me kin more joyfulerly run avay. But," he continued, still objecting, "me got no grub."
I only t'ink so, as you's come from dere." "An' why should I be afraid?" "Because, me frund, de contry be full ob scoundrils." "Yes, an' you are one of the biggest of them," thought Fred Westly, but he kept his thoughts to himself, while Paul muttered something about being well protected, and having no occasion to be afraid.
It was a detailed account of murder and destruction; the burning of the place and the scattering of the old servants. Fortunately Lawrence had no relatives to deplore. "But don't you know where any of the household have gone?" he asked, when the excited negro paused to recover breath. "Don't know nuffin'. Arter I poke de holes in de scoundrils, I was 'bleeged to bolt.
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