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One among them, a small-made, frail man, detached himself from the crowd, and made his way towards Miss Cheyne, as if this meeting had been prearranged and who shall say that it was not? by the dim decrees of Fate. "And let the counsel of thine own heart stand." It was almost dark, and the Walkham River is much overhung in the parts that lie between Horrabridge and the old brickworks.
"It must have been from heaven, baroness," he replied, "for I assuredly came at the right moment." He stood looking down at her a lithe, neat, rather small-made man. Then he turned to attend to his horse. The baroness was already busy with her hair. She rose to her feet and smoothed her habit. "Ah, good!" she laughed. "There is no harm done. But you saved my life, my dear Lory.
He was astonishingly good-looking, small-made, wiry, alert, nervous, debonair, with blond hair and dark eyes that snapped like a terrier's. He made friends almost at first sight, and was one of those fortunate few who were favoured equally of men and women. The healthiness of his eye and skin persuaded to a belief in the healthiness of his mind; and, in fact, Landry was as clean without as within.
Here and there, as we skimmed along the shore of the forest-clad mountains of the mainland, we would pass a village of six or seven houses, and the small-made, light-complexioned folk would, as they heard the sound of our voices, come out and eagerly beseech us to come in "and eat and rest awhile."
"He is a small-made man and light enough to carry some town mouse this, my father who has never had a wet jacket before see his face how white it is, and his little arms and hands. We can carry him, turn and turn about, and shall reach the sea-wall before the tide is up, provided we find no more."
Pirates they were not; but they were perhaps as bad, for both the brig and the barque were Peruvian slavers, sent out to capture and enslave the natives of the South Sea Islands to work the guano deposits of the Chincha Islands. At one end of the cabin table sat the captain of the barque a small-made, youthful-looking man, of not more than twenty-five years of age.
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