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She had learned to shoot, but she had never yet shot at a man and she drew her hand away from the butt of the weapon with a shudder. Yuma had been watching her closely, his evil little eyes glittering, and when he saw her hand drop away he laughed derisively. "You no shoot heem!" he said. "You 'fraid. Dunlavey say he reckon you no shoot say you make love to um right away!"
"Done matter now," came from close at hand, though I could see nothing yet. "Pomp fine um."
The tired soldiers dropped into profound slumber, although the night of the 29th August at Um Terif was boisterous and the cruel enemy near. It was one of the real surprises of the campaign, that the Mahdists never really harassed us, or ventured to rush our lines under cover of night, or in the fog of a dust storm. It has often been too hastily assumed that the dervishes never attacked by night.
Our cavalry by day and infantry by night held a line out beyond the wadi, covering the work of those who were sinking wells, making ramps for guns and transport crossings, and laying the water-pipe line. This line was to be carried to the cisterns of Um Gerrar, where it would come in very useful during the further operations for which we were preparing.
"I thought you said just now that it was for Mr. Archdale's." Elizabeth looked at her, and smiled triumphantly. "I did," she answered. "It's the same thing; I have always told you so." "Um!" said Mrs. Eveleigh, and returned to the attack. "If he wouldn't take the money, how could you give it?" The girl was silent. "It was the father, I know; they say a penny never comes amiss to him."
"Ye've made a bad shtar-rt wid um," he said, shaking his head. "Ye eyed 'im down in th' grub-shack, an' he hates ye fer ut. How ye got by wid ut Oi don't know, fer he's a scr-rapper from away back, an' av he'd sailed into ye Oi'm thinkin' he'd knocked th' divil out av ye, fer he's had experience, which ye ain't. But he didn't dast to, an' he knows ut, an' he knows that the men knows ut.
She developed a theory on the governance of England, beautifully frank and simple. "Give 'um all a peerage when they get twenty thousand a year," she maintained. "That's my remedy." In my new role of theoretical aristocrat I felt a little abashed. "Twenty thousand," she repeated with conviction.
He added with a yawn: "What for you dance corroboree when um not dark? den you bite yellow stone," continued this original, "den you red, den you white, den you red again, all because we pull up yellow stone-all dis a good deal dam ridiculous." "So 'tis, Jacky," replied Robinson, hastily; "don't you have anything to do with yellow stone, it would make you as great a fool as we are.
"So I 'ave 'eard," said Matilda. "You 'aven't give me no 'olidays, 'um, sence I come to yer; and it were understood, sure-ly, that I were to 'ave my day out once a month." "You shall go out to-morrow, Matilda. I haven't the slightest wish to keep you indoors against your will." "To-morrer's cook's day, 'um." "Well, then, you shall go the next day." "Thank you, 'um.
All women, widows, matrons, or maids, are deeply interested in matters pertaining to marriage. "What, uncle! The General! Can it be? Are you sure?" "Um rather. He writes the news himself. Do you know the lady, Monsieur le Comte?" "Mademoiselle de Luc d'Estrelles is my cousin," Camors replied. "Ah! That is right; and she is of a certain age?" "She is about twenty-five."
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