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They soon found that foes were on the watch for them; but they were experienced in Indian warfare, and not to be surprised at night, nor drawn into an ambush in the daytime. As the evening advanced, the horses were all brought in and picketed, and a guard was stationed round the camp.
I was a little surprised, and looking to see what it was, I found a hole in the wall, through which the young man I had given the shilling to spoke to me, and asked me if I had sent for my friends. I told him no. He said he would do what he could for me, and so went away; and some time after he called to me again, and said, `Here is a friend. One Bridgewater.
I did not carry a light, you know the candles are on the landing table and there is that lamp and I was in my list slippers, and I saw him as I came up. I stopped dead at that taking him in. I wasn't a bit afraid. I think that in most of these affairs one is never nearly so afraid or excited as one imagines one would be. I was surprised and interested. I thought, 'Good Lord!
"And I am surprised that a brother-in-law of yours should so far forget himself as to hint it, even." Knowing that she could put him through the inquisition later, she asked my hero how his leg was. "It aches a little when it rains; that's about all." "And you never let us know anything about it till the thing was all over," was Nancy's reproach. "What's the use of scaring you women?"
I was so lost in admiration of this beautiful young man, that I was as much surprised as if the angel Gabriel had spoken to me, when the lady of the house brought him forward to present him to me. She called him Monsieur de la Tourelle, and he began to speak to me in French; but though I understood him perfectly, I dared not trust myself to reply to him in that language.
"Expect me in an hour," I said, and here I am in half an hour, so she'd be surprised. I was invited to tea, but I didn't stay. "Do you think I want tea," I said, "when I have a young wife at home who's waiting for me!" But where is she? LUKÉRYA. I don't know. Somewhere around. Isn't she in the garden? KRASNÓV. Send her in right away, I want to give her a present for her kindness to-day.
"Oh," she exclaimed, "that is wonderful!" "Yes, it is pretty well. We will now put him in his box. For the box I have to thank Mr. Farrow. He is one of the neatest hands at that kind of work I know, although it is not exactly his trade. I never was much of a joiner." Miriam was a little surprised. She knew that her husband was clever with his tools, but she had never set any value on his labours.
Stubbs' face blanched at the movement and the others were too surprised to move all except one; and this one, quick as a flash, leaped forward with the agility of a cat and thrust his body protectingly before Anthony Stubbs. When the smoke of the revolver had cleared away Stubbs stood erect, unharmed but at his feet lay the twitching body of Nikol, the dwarf.
But at length we reached the well-known house, and surprised enough were they to see us; but when we told them the reason, my uncle immediately started for my father's house, to render any assistance that might be required. The night passed, however, without the expected invasion; the British proceeded in another direction, and our cold, lonely walk might have been dispensed with.
He surprised her eventually by the suddenness with which he pounced upon it. He had turned the talk upon the subject of his new yacht, and very abruptly he announced his intention of going round the world in her. "Not alone?" she said, and then would have checked the words lest they should seem to ask too much. But he answered her without a pause. "Yes, alone.
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