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In the bare dining-room of the inn, which he had hoped they would have to themselves, they found a strident party of innocent-looking young men and women school-teachers on a holiday, the landlord told them and Archer's heart sank at the idea of having to talk through their noise.
He was at Archer's door as the veteran came forth, haranguing Willett, again his guest at dinner, but with anxious eyes turned at once to hear the report. "No matter what time it happens," he said, "hereafter, when signals are seen, let the guard notify me at once." And the officer retired musing over this bit of evidence that the commanding officer was growing a trifle irritable.
"Beat!" said Dick, and stood quite still. At him rushed the swift shaft, and passed over his shoulder within a hairbreadth of his ear. Then came Dick's turn. On Jack Green's cap was an archer's plume. "Mark the plume, lords," he said, and lo! the feather leapt from that cap. Now there was silence. No one spoke, but Dick drew out three more arrows.
We much prefer the bright, clean knife-blade of our broad-heads to any other missile. The principles involved in seeking game with the bow and arrow are those of the still hunt, only more refined. An archer's striking distance extends from ten to one hundred yards. For small animals it lies between ten and forty; for large game from forty to eighty or a hundred.
The American people came in the first instance justly by its hatred of the name "British," and there have not since been at work any forces sufficiently powerful to obliterate that hatred, while there have been some operating to keep it alive. Archer's study of the American people is in my opinion the most sympathetic and comprehending which has been written by an Englishman.
He rose to Forester, but ere that worthy had even cocked his gun for he had now adopted Archer's plan, and carried his piece always at half cock, till needed flew to the right across the Commodore; so Frank released his hammer and brought down his Manton, while A deliberately covered, and handsomely cut down the bird at five-and-twenty yards.
On the other hand, let it get abroad through yonder prating fellow, Heatherthwayte, or any other, that Master Richard Talbot had in his house a child with, I know not what Popish tokens, and a scroll in an unknown tongue, and I should be had up in gyves for suspicion of treason, or may be harbouring the Prince of Scotland himself, when it is only some poor Scottish archer's babe."
But it was as if she too had shifted her place, and he still saw her, between himself and the trees, drooping over the fire with her indolent smile. Archer's heart was beating insubordinately. What if it were from him that she had been running away, and if she had waited to tell him so till they were here alone together in this secret room?
Below the mouth of the Marias River, twenty minutes later, we grounded on Archer's Bar and shut down. After dragging her off the gravel, we discovered that the engine wished to sleep. No amount of cranking could arouse it. Now and then it would say "squash," feebly rolling its wheel a revolution or two like a sleepy-head brushing off a fly with a languid hand.
I think he acquiesced in Dangerfield's dreadful estimate of Charles Archer's character. 'But we must give the devil his due; Charles can do a handsome thing sometimes. You shall judge.
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