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The young stranger must be either deceiving him or an exception to his countrymen! And if he was that exception what then? An idea which had sprung up in Father Esteban's fancy that morning now took possession of it with the tenacity of a growth on fertile virgin soil. The good Father had been devoted to the conversion of the heathen with the fervor of a one-ideaed man.
The telegraph followed the northern side, but frequently left the road to take short cuts across the hills. We struck a rock ten miles from our journey's end, and for several minutes I thought we should go gracefully to the bottom. We whirled twice around on the rock before we left it, and our captain feared we had sprung a leak.
It was a glorious sight; but the most glorious object in it to Dick, at that time, was a fat buffalo which stood grazing not a hundred yards off. The wind was blowing towards him, so that the animal did not scent him, and, as he came up very slowly, and it was turned away, it did not see him. Crusoe would have sprung forward in an instant, but his master's finger imposed silence and caution.
'Cap'n, says I, I 'us sec'n' mate, ''s they any man aboard this ship knows how to pray? 'No, says the cap'n; 'blast yer prayers! 'Well, says I, 'cap'n, I'm no hand at all to pray, but I'm goin' to see if prayin' won't git us out 'n this. And I down on my knees, and I made a first-class prayer; and a breeze sprung up in a minute and carried us smack into Boston."
The creature had not been turned out, as it ought to have been, before my wife and daughter retired, and feeling cold had got upon the table and thence had sprung upon my back for the sake of the warmth which it knew was to be found there; and no doubt the springing on my shoulders by the ecclesiastical cat was what I took in my dream to be the slap on my shoulders by the Wolverhampton gent.
Shrinking instinctively, yet hardly knowing what to do, she found herself in it, and seated, before she quite knew it. He sprung after her, closed the door, the carriage started at once at a great pace, and the poor little fly was fairly caught in the spider's web. "I don't like this," said Mollie, decisively. "I had no idea of entering a carriage when I appointed this meeting.
He lashed his tail against his tawny sides. He roared terribly; but, for an instant, he remained where he stood surprised into inaction, doubtless, by the strange apparition that had sprung so unexpectedly from the jungle. Other eyes were upon Meriem, too eyes in which were no less surprise than that reflected in the yellow-green orbs of the carnivore.
So after things had been got pretty well into shape in this way, Duff asked Mullins one night, straight out, if he would be chairman of the Central Committee. He sprung it on him and Mullins had no time to refuse, but he put it to Duff straight whether he would be treasurer. And Duff had no time to refuse. That gave things a start, and within a week they had the whole organization on foot.
The place was even hotter than Massowah; there was no vegetation, no trace of habitations on that desolate shore. Fancy our surprise, on reaching the same spot in May, 1868, to find piers, railways, bazaars, &c. a bustling city had sprung out of the wilderness.
Close by the Greek temples at Paestum there are violets that seem redder, and sweeter, than any ever seen as though they have sprung up out of the footprints of some old pagan goddess; but under the April sun, in a Devonshire lane, the little blue scentless violets capture every bit as much of the spring.
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