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"Ah!" nodded the Waggoner, "but then nobody never has enough of it, leastways, I never knowed nobody as had. Good-bye, sir! and thankee, and good luck!" saying which, the Waggoner chirrupped to his horses, slipped the coin into his pocket, nodded, and the waggon creaked and rumbled up the lane.
The tumbrel thundered on, over rocks and stumps of trees, over dead men, ay, and living ones, I fear, to the river-bank, where a few of the Virginia troops, held together by Waggoner and Peyronie, had drawn up. It did my heart good to see them standing there, so cool and self-possessed, while that mob of regulars poured past them, frenzied with fear.
She was leaning against him, holding his hands in her strong clasp, soulful, tender, almost passionate. "You couldn't help it.... I'm to blame.... I remember what I said." "What?" he queried in amaze. "'YOU CAN KILL HIM!... I said that. I made you kill him." "Kill whom?" cried Shefford. "Waggoner. I'm to blame.... That must be what's made you different.
The admirable sleeper preferred to be a quiet butt, and the waggoner leisurely exhausted the fun that was to be had out of him; returning to it with a persistency that evinced more concentration than variety in his mind. At last Evan said: 'Your pace is rather slow. They'll be shut up in Fallowfield. I 'll go on ahead. You'll find me at one of the inns-the Green Dragon.
There are occasions on which two servant-girls and a waggoner may be a formidable audience, and as the squire rode away on his black pony, even the gift of short-sightedness did not prevent him from being aware that Molly and Nancy and Tim were grinning not far from him. Perhaps he suspected that sour old John was grinning behind him which was also the fact.
He turned and ran south toward the river and Waggoner, recovering himself, ran after him full bent. It was a strangely silent race these two ran through the empty little street, for in the half-melted snow their feet made no sounds at all. Waggoner, for obvious reasons, could utter no words; the other man did not. A scant ten feet in the lead the fugitive reached the high clay bank of the river.
On that point the company was divided, being all equally ignorant. But Farmer Lavender's good sense came to the rescue. "Why," said he, "Jenny here tells me Colonel Wyndham's got a Frenchman to his cook; and he'd make a poor cook if he'd never dressed nought but frogs, I reckon." "They'll have a bit o' bread to 'em, like as not," suggested the waggoner.
At a repetition of the call, the waggoner stopped his team. After a few minutes, a man appeared panting on the bank above them, down which he ran precipitately, knocked against Evan, apologized with the little breath that remained to him, and then held his hand as to entreat a hearing. Evan thought him half-mad; the waggoner was about to imagine him the victim of a midnight assault.
"Oh, how unlike my Larry!" thought Lord Colambre. At length, in a very narrow lane, going up a hill, said to be two miles of ascent, they overtook a heavy laden waggon, and they were obliged to go step by step behind it, whilst, enjoying the gentleman's impatience much, and the postilion's sulkiness more, the waggoner, in his embroidered frock, walked in state, with his long sceptre in his hand.
He may even be induced to leave behind one or two of his women and a few cases of wine, if the matter be put before him plainly." "Shut up, man!" cried Waggoner. "Do you want a court-martial?" And we fell silent, for indeed the excesses of the officers of the line was a sore subject with all of us.
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