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Brit's eyes were terrible. Lorraine shuddered while she told him. "Rabbits in a trap," Brit muttered, staring at the low ceiling. "Can't prove nothing couldn't convict anybody if we could prove it. Bill Warfield's got this county under his thumb. Rabbits in a trap. Raine, you better pack up and go home to your mother. There's goin' to be hell a-poppin' if I live to git outa this bed."
Here we caught also a great Turbut which was an elle long and a yard broad: which was so great that the hooke could not hold her into the ship: but when she was aboue water she bent the hooke and escaped. Springes of fresh water we found none in all the Island, but some standing pooles of raine water. The same day at night we weighed anker againe. The 17 we had stormy weather.
The 16 of September in the nigh it lightened much, whereupon there followed great winds and raine which continued the 17 18 19-20 and 21 of the same. So then we viewed the Towne quietly, and bought such things as we desired for our money as if we had bene in England. And they helped to fill vs in fresh water, receiuing for their paines such satisfaction as contented them.
Then, as he passed through the Southern Gate of the Highlands, and thence onward, his hope must have waned until on September 22d it vanished utterly away. Under that date Juet wrote in his log: "This night, at ten of the clocke, our boat returned in a showre of raine from sounding the river; and found it to bee at an end for shipping to goe in." That was the end of the adventure inland.
He thought Hauck looked like an exultant gargoyle as he stood there with a horrible grin on his face, and Brokaw.... It was Brokaw who bent over him, his thick fingers knotting, his open eyes fairly livid. "I'm glad you ain't dead, Raine." His voice was husky, muffled by the swollen thickness of his battered lips. "Thanks," said David.
Lorraine sprang up and stood facing her father, every nerve taut with protest. "You don't mean to tell me, dad, that you and Frank Johnson and Lone Morgan and everybody in the country are cowards, do you?" Brit looked at her patiently. "No," he said in the tone of acknowledged defeat, "we ain't cowards, Raine. A man ain't a coward when he stands with his hands over his head.
I want you to be kind to that little girl. 'Daisy Stewart? Thank you. But I've no gift at all for mothering babes! Besides she'll now have all the advice, and all the kindness she wants. Marsworth's lips twitched. 'Yes, that's true if you and I can help her out. Cicely! aren't you a great friend of Sir John Raine?
'Cicely I don't care a brass farthing about Sir John Raine! 'But having once brought him in, I recommend you to stick to him, said Cicely, with teasing eyes. 'And don't go advising young women. It's not good for the military. I'm going to take this business in hand. And she made for departure, but Marsworth got to the door first, and put his back against it. 'Find me the Turner, Cicely.
The 27 we set saile to goe homewarde with the winde at Southwest, and at two a clocke in the afternoone, the riuer of Benin was Northeast 8 leagues from vs. The 3 of May we had such a terrible gust with raine, lightning and thunder, that it tore and split our fore saile, and also the Carauels foresayle and maine-sayle, with the wind at Southeast.
"Now counsel me, an you be a man, Matt Chamberlain," said Widow Raine; "for never stir, if here be not Master Julian's own self, and he wants a horse, and what not, and all as if things were as they wont to be." "Why, dame, an ye will walk by my counsel," said the Chamberlain, "e'en shake him off let him be jogging while his boots are green.
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