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"I've done with it now," muttered Fred. "I don't see any fun in going sop, sop, squeeze, squatter, through all this cold, dark water. Eh! what's that the end of it?" "I think so," said Scarlett, holding the lanthorn up as high as he could. "Here are some steps and a door." "Of course; then that must be the door that opens on the lake." "No, it can't be, for the steps are dry, and I say, Fred!"
"Yes, yes," cried Scarlett; and, leaping up, he caught at a bough, which snapped in two, and he dropped down again. But his next attempt was more successful, for he drew himself out, and the next minute was kneeling by his old follower, as Nat lay nearly hidden among the undergrowth. "I say, don't play tricks, sir," said Nat, feebly. "I aren't dreaming, are I?" "Dreaming, Nat?"
'I would ride my horse a hundred miles to find one who could match with thee, he said to Little John, and Will Scarlett, who was perhaps rather jealous of this mighty deed, answered with a laugh, 'There lives a friar in Fountains Abbey who would beat both him and you.
"Bad lot, Sophronisba. Very bad!" "Mrs. Scarlett," I reminded him gently, "was my relative only by marriage." "Cousin of mine; mother's relative. Not on speaking-, only on fighting-terms," he interjected. I remembered what Uncle Adam had told us; and I'm afraid I eyed him a bit harder than politeness warranted.
The cavalry division under Lord Lucan consisted of the Light Cavalry Brigade under Lord Cardigan, composed of the 4th Light Dragoons, the 8th Hussars, 11th Hussars, 13th Dragoons and 17th Lancers; and the Heavy Cavalry Brigade under Brigadier-General Scarlett, consisting of the Scots Greys, 4th Dragoon Guards, 5th Dragoon Guards, and 6th Dragoons. Of these the Scots Greys had not yet arrived.
There was a long deep sigh, and as Scarlett stood there so closely that he could have laid his hand upon his enemy's head, he felt that he was completely trapped, and that perhaps even to move was to ensure capture. "What shall I do?" he asked himself. "It will be getting toward morning soon;" and now the necessity for escaping at once seemed ten thousand times more clear.
"Why, what brought you over so soon?" "What are you doing there?" "Baling." "Yes; and you were going over yonder without me?" Scarlett sat tapping the gunwale of the boat with the pot, having ceased to bale. "Yes, I knew you were," continued Fred, in an altered tone, as the other remained silent. "Come, now, confess."
I am all right," said Doll, who by this time hated the subject. "It was Scarlett who was nearly frozen like New Zealand lamb." Doll had heard Mr. Gresley fire off the simile of the lamb, and considered it sound. "How absurd you are. You always make me laugh. I suppose he has left now that he is unfrozen." "Oh no. He is still here. We would not let him go till he was better. He is not up to much.
But he had no time to think, for directly he touched the shaley floor, the rope was drawn up, and almost directly after, he was hastily taking from the rope the burdens which it bore, while, to his surprise, Scarlett came next. "You?" said Fred in his wonder. "Yes; I thought I could help most here; and it seemed so terrible a place for you to be alone."
"Ah, that's better," grunted Samson. "Never such a fellow for cider! Why, my brother's a deal worse than I am, and you wouldn't ketch him leaving his work to take all the trouble I did to-day, Master Scarlett. Hah! here he comes back. Thank ye, Master Fred, lad. Hah! what good cider. Puzzle your Nat to make such stuff as that." "He says ours is better," said Scarlett.
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