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A general rush was made in the direction indicated, Arthur jumped into the vehicle, and amid the shouts and cheers of his friends, was quickly rolled over the stones to the railway terminus. Ding, dong, ding, dong, waugh, waugh, puff, puff, and the train moved slowly out of the station, increasing its velocity until it was whirling along at something very like fifty miles an hour.
It is true that Mrs. Waugh was not present, that good woman being in the back parlor, sitting at one end of the sofa and making a pillow of her lap for the commodore's head, which she combed soporifically, while, stretched at full length, he took his afternoon nap.
“Rot my hide!” he exclaimed, “if I hain’t had a neighbor all these years and never knowed it. Waugh!
Edith was placed upon her pony and attended by her old maid Jenny and her old groom Oliver. Commodore and Mrs. Waugh entered the family carriage, which they pretty well filled up. Mrs. Waugh's woman sat upon the box behind and the Commodore's man drove the coach. And the whole family party set forward on their journey.
Thus, you see, the gold does not feel heavy, being equally distributed, and it does not show, as it would if carried in a heap besides, it forms a sort of armour though I fear it would not resist a rifle-bullet!" "Waugh!" exclaimed Big Otter, with an intelligent look. "As to the diamonds, they are not bulky. I have concealed them in an under-belt round my waist."
"It must have been," he at length replied, "hunting with his fathers before the right time had come. Big Otter was not dead, and he chased the deer too much, perhaps, or fought too much. It may be that, having only his earth-body, he ate too much." "Don't ye think it's just possible," suggested Macnab, "that, having only your earth-body, you drank too much?" "Waugh!" replied the red-man.
"'Waugh! says I, 'if I ain't pretty close to his lodge, I'm a nigger! "The old gentleman speaks up, 'Take care of yourself, Mr. Hatcher, in a mighty soft kind voice, and he smiled so calm and devilish it nigh froze me. I thought if the ground would open with an earthquake, and take me in, I'd be much obliged anyhow.
Then he inquired after the health of the family at Luckenough, commented upon the weather, the state of the crops, etc., and with a valedictory bow withdrew, and followed the retreating crowd. "I think we can also go now," said Mrs. Waugh. "Yes," said Jacquelina, rising. Upon reaching the outside, they found old Oliver, with the sleigh drawn up to receive them.
Carrying-places come, and when sick men come to them they stagger and fall. Frost often comes in spring, and when sick men get cold they die. Waugh!" "Humph!" repeated the boy again, with a solemnity quite equal to that of the Red-man. "When rain comes I can put up an umbrella an umbrella. D'you know what that is?" The Indian shook his head.
She could see them sitting round the dining-room: Mrs. Waugh and Miss Frewin, Mrs. Belk with her busy eyes, and Miss Kendal and Miss Louisa, Mrs. Oldshaw and Dorsy; and Mrs. Horn, the grocer's wife, very stiff in a corner by herself, sewing unbleached calico and hot red flannel, hot sunlight soaking into them. The library was dim, and leathery and tobaccoey and cool.
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