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He dropped on his bended knee. Could he get on his knee if it wasn't bended?" She laughed aloud. "You are so literal!" cried Hester with dignity. "In poetry, one is allowed " "Poetry," another merry laugh. "Is that poetry? Take it to Doctor Weldon's classes and let her put her seal of approval on it." Erma had made her way to the door. With a mock courtesy and a sweep of her skirts, she vanished.
One of our balls had penetrated the chest, and the other had broken the fore leg, but he was still able to shake off the dogs, and would probably have escaped but for Weldon's shot.... The next morning, March 13, we breakfasted upon a couple of gophers or land-tortoises which the men had found the day before in the pine-woods.
For men and mounts, the halt was needed. The fight about the laager had been no easy victory. Twelve hundred half-starved Britons are no match for fifteen hundred Boers fat with easy living. Weldon's hold on the crest had decided the game; but the game had not played itself out without wounds for some and utter weariness for all.
Who, then, except Negoro, had been able to visit the ship before them and to lay hands on Captain Hull's and Mrs. Weldon's reserve? No one but he, surely, could be suspected. However, Dick Sand hesitated a moment. All that he knew and all that he saw of him was that everything was to be feared from that concentrated nature, from whom the misfortunes of others could snatch a smile.
"It may have been all imagination. But I couldn't help feelings as I did. However, you may expect to see me, and that, too, before Miss Weldon's arrival." "If you don't present yourself before, I am not so sure that we will let you come afterwards," said the friend, smiling. On the next evening the young man called. Mrs.
The food, consisting of goat's flesh or mutton, vegetables, tapioca, sorgho, and the fruits of the country, was sufficient. Halima, a young slave, was especially devoted to Mrs. Weldon's service. In her way, and as she could, she even evinced for her a kind of savage, but certainty sincere, affection. Mrs. Weldon hardly saw Jose-Antonio Alvez, who occupied the principal house of the factory.
Dressed in a thin white gown which, to Weldon's mind, was curiously out of keeping with all his preconceived notions of January weather, she rose and came forward to greet him at the top of the steps. "At last," she said cordially, while she gave him her hand. "I began to fear you had already gone to the front."
And she, ingrate that she was, could spare thought from the dear home circle to waste it upon the forgetful young Canadian who was talking horse and politics by the rail. She turned sharply, as Weldon's voice fell upon her ears. "Happy New Year, Miss Dent! It is an odd wish to be giving, with the mercury at ninety."
His eyes were wide open, his hands clenched; he stared, murmuring these incoherent words: "I have seen already seen these forks when little I have seen!" And no doubt the memories of his early infancy returned to him vaguely. He tried to recall them. He was going to speak. "Be silent, Tom!" repeated Dick Sand. "For Mrs. Weldon's sake, for all our sakes, be silent!"
Maybe there will be something here to fit you, Alice. Wouldn't you like it? We are going to tea to-night to Mrs. Weldon's, and Ruth Craven is to be there. The darling girl I will give her something. I should love to make her look just as beautiful as she can look. I am not a bit a stingy sort of girl; you know that, Alice. I want to be quite generous with my lovely things."
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