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But their triumph was short-lived. At the end of the meal they were startled by the trampling of hoofs without, followed by loud knocking. In another moment the door was opened, and Mr. Stanner strode into the room. Hale rose with a look of indignation. "I thought, as Mr.
Why, the Kernel wasn't nowhere. HIS cussin' didn't come within a mile o' yourn. That Stanner jist turned yaller." "I'm afraid you are laughing at me," said Hale, not knowing whether to be pleased or vexed at the girl's amusement. "I reckon I'm the only one that dare do it, then," said the girl simply.
In spite of his satire, he fell at the bloody battle of Albuera a few years after this pleasantly spent summer at the Georgian watering-place, being mortally wounded and trampled down by a French hussar when the brigade was deploying into line under Beresford. While Miller Loveday was saying 'Well done, Mr. Stanner! at the close of the thirteenth stanza, which seemed to be the last, and Mr.
"Well HE is the principal, for the others only HELPED, I reckon," said Zeenie with a sigh, "and I reckon he IS dangerous." Hale saw it was useless to explain. The girl continued "What made you stay here instead of going on with the Kernel? There was suthin' else besides your wanting to make that Stanner take water. What is it?"
"The pint you want to make in that article," said Clinch, rising, but still directing his face and his conversation to the fire, "ez far ez I ken see ez that no three men kin back down six unless they be cowards, or are willing to be backed down." "That's the point what I start from," rejoined Stanner, "and work up. I leave it to you ef it ain't so."
A light sense of the propinquity of beauty, of her confidence, of their isolation, of the eloquence of her dark eyes, at first tempted Hale to a reply of simple gallantry; a graver consideration of the same circumstances froze it upon his lips. "I don't know," he returned awkwardly. "Well, I'll tell you," she said. "You didn't cotton to the Kernel and Rawlins much more than you did to Stanner.
A whispered discussion among the party ceased on his entering, and an awkward silence followed, which Hale did not attempt to break as he quietly took his seat again by the fire. He was presently confronted by Stanner, who with an affectation of easy familiarity crossed over to the hearth.
I suppose you know what a warrant is?" "I know what YOU are," said Hale hotly; "and if you don't leave my house " "Steady, boys," interrupted Stanner, as his five henchmen filed into the hall. "There's no backin' down here, Colonel Clinch, unless you and Hale kalkilate to back down the State of Californy! The matter stands like this.
"Then take it," said Hale, handing him the package. "The first restitution is to you, but I believe you will fulfil Lee's instructions as well as myself." "But," said Stanner, furiously interposing, "I've a warrant to seize that wherever found, and I dare you to disobey the law." "Mr. Stanner," said Clinch, slowly, "there are ladies present.
Stanner was modestly expressing his regret that he could do no better, a stentorian voice was heard outside the window shutter repeating, Rol'-li-cum ro'-rum, tol'-lol-lo'-rum, Rol'-li-cum ro'-rum, tol'-lol-lay. The company was silent in a moment at this reinforcement, and only the military tried not to look surprised.
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