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Updated: June 22, 2025
My mother leant upon the parapet, her eyes fixed dreamingly upon the distant mountains, and a smile crept to her lips. "What are you thinking of?" I asked. "Oh, only of things that happened over there" she nodded her head towards the distant hills as to some old crony with whom she shares secrets "when I was a girl." "You lived there, long ago, didn't you, when you were young?" I asked.
No man living possesses a larger collection of gemsbock beards, which constitute the hunter's trophy of this form of the chase. They number nearly three thousand, and the only person whose score at all approximates the emperor's is his intimate friend and crony, the aged King Albert of Saxony.
He knew that, if he failed, death was certain, yet he determined to take the risk in order to retrieve the slip he had made in admitting that he had money in his possession to a gambling crony; and so to keep clean his record for trustiness, of which he was so proud. This last desperate resource was an old wrestler's trick; one with which he had conquered others in the rough games of the corral.
In a moment, Andrew perceived that his victor-wrestler his crony in Lucky Hewitt's the tempter of his Janet the man whom he had felled with a blow, and whose blood he had drawn and the King of Scotland, was one and the same person. "Guid gracious!" exclaimed Andrew, "I'm a done man!" "Seize him!" said the king.
It was plainly to be seen that the shifting of the boat had filled Ham Spink with rage, and he was unusually anxious to "square up" with the four boy hunters. But he could do nothing, and at last he and his crony withdrew. "I am glad you arrived," said Giant. "If you hadn't I am afraid those fellows would have gotten the best of us."
It was generally felt that the repose of the old man's last years ought not to be disturbed. Even such intimates as my paternal grandfather, comrade-in-arms during Napoleon's Moscow campaign, and later on a fellow officer in the Polish army, refrained from visiting his crony as the date of the outbreak approached.
Then the lady and I to very serious discourse and, among other things, of what a bonny lasse my Lady Robinson is, who is reported to be kind to the prisoners, and has said to Sir G. Smith, who is her great crony, "Look! there is a pretty man, I would be content to break a commandment with him," and such loose expressions she will have often.
The next morning, after loitering uneasily about the workshop a sufficiently long time for Janoah Eldridge to make his appearance and finding that his crony did not make his appearance, Willie reluctantly took his worn visor cap down from the peg and drew it over his brows, with the remark: "Looks like Jan ain't headed this way to-day, either."
He had entered the "Berkeley Arms" in the old feudal town, called for his ale, and been stared at by an old crony, yet never recognized. A year of absence, danger, privation, slavery had put five years at least on to the young yeoman's back. The laughter had gone out of his eyes, the roundness out of his cheeks, and his walk was stiff. He hailed the ferryman.
The old man did nothing nowadays but make out an occasional bill and balance up the cash-book; he kept to himself up-stairs most of the time, and spent many an hour in the company of some old crony, some visiting ship's captain or business acquaintance. But before retiring old Henriksen always lit a lamp, shambled down-stairs to the office, and took a last survey of the books.
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