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"'How is this, Sambo? I asked in a low tone, as our canoe grated on the sand within a few paces of several others that lay where I expected to find but one 'are all these Desborough's?" "'No, Massa Geral 'less him teal him toders, Desborough only got one dis a public landin' place. "'Can you tell which is his? I inquired.
And now, Colonel, what is to be done, and how is our duty to be executed at this accursed place? If I should get such a wetting as Desborough's, why I should die of catarrh, though you see it hurts him no more than a bucket of water thrown over a post-horse. You are, I presume, a brother in our commission, how are you of opinion we should proceed?"
And they as meddles with 'em had better look out." Burnside started off for Toonarbin, and when halfway there he paused and listened. The firing had ceased. When he came to reflect, now that his panic was over, he had very little doubt that Desborough's party had gained the day. It was impossible, he thought, that it could be otherwise.
Yet, upon my word, I think that Lord Beverdale or shall I say Lord Algernon? would not only understand that American word 'guess' as you mean it, but would perfectly sympathize with you." Miss Desborough's eyes sparkled even through her veil as she glanced at her companion and said, "I GUESS NOT."
And they went to such couches as they could find for themselves, ready to do his behest; and though London was in flames, and the house almost as light as day, there were few that did not sleep soundly on the night which followed that strange eventful Sunday. Dinah Morse and her niece Janet were faring sumptuously in Lord Desborough's house, hard by St. Paul's Churchyard.
Taking advantage of his entrance into the hut, the two individuals, first described, had stolen cautiously under cover of the forest, until they arrived at its termination, within about twenty yards of the shore, where however there was no outward or visible sign of the individual who had been Desborough's companion.
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