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Updated: May 5, 2025
Youwarkee's account of the stages to Arndrumstake The author uneasy at her flight His employment in her absence; and preparations for receiving her father How he spent the evenings with the children.
How many petty states are less than these my dominions! I have here a compass of near twenty miles round, and how many thousands grow voluntarily grey in a far less circuit? Peter!" I started. "What's this?" says I. "It is not Youwarkee's voice! What can this mean?" Listening, I heard it again, but at so great a distance I could but just perceive the sound.
Whereupon I ordered them to the chests again, while Quangrollart delivered his narrative. Quangrollart's account of Youwarkee's journey, and reception at her father's. Having set on the table some brandy and Madeira, and each of us taken one glass of both, I showed, by the attentiveness of my aspect and posture, how desirous I was he should proceed to what he had promised.
"By this time we heard them coming, but my poor father had not power to go to meet them: and upon Youwarkee's nearer approach, to fall at his knees, his limbs failing him, he sunk, and without speaking a word, fell backwards on a cught drappec,* which stood behind him; and, being quite motionless, we concluded him to be stone-dead.
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