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But the girl had used secrecy in appointing this interview; till I could see further into the thing, it was anyhow a safe bet to drop them. "Pete," I said, "lose that car behind us. Only ten minutes to slip them and land me at Fisherman's Wharf. Show me what-for." He grinned.
Then Little John began to beseech Saint Dunstan for money, which he did in a great loud voice. After he had so besought the Saint for a time, he bade the friars feel in their pouches and see if the Saint had sent them anything; so each put his hand slowly in the pouch that hung beside him, but brought nothing thence. "Ha!" quoth Little John, "have your prayers so little virtue?
They were of every tint and texture; of high and low degree, modest or haughty as the case might be but roses all of them, and such roses as California alone can boast. And some were fat or passé, and more's the pity, but all were fragrant, and the name of that sweet vale was Santa Rosa. Paul was in the garden with Miss. Juno. He had followed her thither with what speed he dared.
Folks that wuz despondent and hopeless, and wretched actin', why, this belief made 'em jest blossom right out into a state of hopefulness, and calmness, and joy refreshin' indeed to contemplate. Wall now, the idee of whippin' anybody for believin' anything that brings such a good change to 'em, and fills them and them round 'em with so much peace and happiness.
Were he but to steal a glance at them, they think that flying fish must inevitably bore out his eyes at night. If his wife, mother, or daughter brings any gift for him or wishes to talk with him, she must stand down towards the shore with her back turned to the men's clubhouse.
"Oh, worms and bugs that hide under the leaves," replied Chewink carelessly. "You have no idea how many of them hide under dead leaves." "Do you eat anything else?" asked Peter. "Berries and wild fruits in season," replied Chewink. "I'm very fond of them. They make a variety in the bill of fare." "I've noticed that I seldom see you up in the tree tops," remarked Peter.
There was this distinct difference between the rebels, however: Alick's tricks and practical jokes, as well as his rebellion against authority, had in them the strain of malice prepense which made of them blacker faults, while Geoff's misdemeanours were committed in the name of, and for the sake of, pure mischief.
We swarmed out of our holes, examining the marks his claws had made on the crumbling rock of the bluff, all of us talking at once. One of the two Folk who had been caught in the double cave was part-grown, half child and half youth. They had come out proudly from their refuge, and we surrounded them in an admiring crowd.
There are so many in England who have neither seen nor felt anything of the blow we have had." And here I told them something of what I had seen and heard in Dorset; how remote and unreal the whole thing was to folk there. "That's it, exactly," continued Crondall. "That's one difficulty which has just got to be overcome.
A work on slavery, was my answer. "Which side of the question is it on?" It was but a short time before I purchased two other volumes on the same subject, and laid them on my table. A gentleman called on business, and observing the books, inquired what kind of books they were? I laughingly answered that they were novels. "Why," replied he, "I thought you did not read novels."
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