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"Oh, don't be so snaggy, Smithums," I said banteringly; "wait till his poor old wing's all right again, and he shall go a shooting too." That was too much. He made a rush at me, but Barkins flung an arm round his waist, and as they struggled together I dodged to the other side of the table and escaped from the cabin, but popped my head in again.
Wendover replied vaguely, smiling through his visible anxiety. It was no more than natural that he should wonder what Laura Wing's peremptory friend wanted of him at that hour of the night; but nothing could exceed the gallantry of his attempt to conceal the symptoms of alarm. 'You ought to have come before, you know, Lady Davenant went on. 'I have wanted to see you more than once.
There she had no doubt; and her will, therefore, hardened to the act, and to the publicity which it involved. But Sir Francis Wing's son was still living, and what for her was piety must be for him stain and dishonor.
A young woman with a baggage check in her hand was standing near an omnibus waiting for the driver to come. Wing's headlong speed would have carried him safely past her, but a big man with two suit-cases was rushing toward him, and as he veered to one side he struck heavily against the girl. The blow knocked her against the steps of the omnibus and sent Wing sprawling in the dust.
Her cheeks were burning; and, with a craving for protection, she put up her sunshade. But the girl's white face came up again before her, and the sound of her words: "Oh, Mrs. Fiorsen, I wish I was dead! Gyp walked on beneath her sunshade, making unconsciously for the peace of trees. Her mind was a whirl of impressions Daphne Wing's figure against the door, Mr.
No difficulties had delayed the invaders but such as Nature had interposed to thwart them, as when a violent storm on one occasion shattered the tents, and on another a sudden swell of the Euphrates wrecked some of the corn transports, and interrupted the right wing's line of march. But this pleasant condition of things was not to continue.
A slender, trim-looking young man, who had got off the train and was about to enter the omnibus of another hotel, saw the collision and sprang to her assistance. Helping her to her feet, he asked anxiously if she was hurt, and then seized Wing's arm and gave him a little shaking. "You young rascal!" he exclaimed. "Why don't you look where you are going?"
He went back to the merry party at the hovel with a heavy heart and not until after the last of the visitors had gone home the boys swinging pine torches and giving the warwhoop to scare off any lurking wolves or catamounts did Enoch find opportunity to tell his mother of Crow Wing's warning. "Simon Halpen is surely coming to evict us," he declared.
You must be in distress, mental or bodily. Do let me help you in some way." For a moment no reply whatever. Wing's face was hidden. Then he looked gently upward. "Lieutenant, I'm ashamed to be giving you so much trouble. Please go and lie down again, sir; you're worse hurt than I am, only I suppose I get to dozing off and then turn on that side." "No, it isn't that, sergeant.
So he went into the wrestling match with the intention of getting a "down" at once, and the first round was over almost before Crow Wing knew what Enoch was about. "A fair fall! a fair fall!" cried the boys, and danced about the pair as it was seen that both Crow Wing's hips and his shoulders were squarely on the turf. The Indian rose slowly, evidently much surprised by the white boy's tactics.
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