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Such, then, was the mistress of the mansion, who, reckless of the cold northern blasts, showed her blooming face from the door of the building to welcome the arrival of her favorite, Captain Lawton, and his companion, her master in matters of surgery.
Lawton and his
companion
now entered the building, and the first objects which met their eyes explained the hidden meaning of Betty's comfortable declaration.
Birch received the volume with habitual reverence; but there was an abstracted air about him, and a wandering of the eye, that induced his
companion
to think that alarm was getting the mastery of the peddler's feelings; accordingly, he proceeded in what he conceived to be the offices of consolation.
"There are few who have not done so," said the peddler, turning his vacant gaze once more on his
companion.
"'Tis nothing," replied the peddler, recovering his natural manner, and lowering his face to avoid the earnest looks of his
companion.
Approaching the captain, the Skinner renewed the discourse, with a view of establishing further confidence, and of giving his
companion
a more favorable opinion of his own intellects.
She therefore poured out a glass of her morning beverage, and handed it to her
companion
as a peace offering.
He is niver a bit afeard of any divil of them all!""Betty, Betty," said her companion, "do not speak so disreverently of the evil spirit; he is ever at hand, and will owe you a grudge, for your language."
I should be a weight to drag you to the dust; but with a different spirit in your companion, you might soar to the very pinnacle of earthly glory.
For some time the two rode in silence, when Lawton, perceiving that his
companion'
s temper was somewhat ruffled by his disappointments and Betty's attack, made an effort to restore the tranquillity of his feelings.
But the captain, rolling his dark eyes towards his companion, and observing him to be sitting with great uneasiness on his horse, continued,-"The air is still, and the road solitary - why not give the remainder?
The surgeon turned a vacant eye on his
companion
as he uttered this soliloquy, while the penetrating looks of the trooper had already discovered another pile of rocks, which, jutting forward, nearly obstructed the highway that wound directly around its base.
Certain significant signs which were embraced at a glance by the prying gaze of the trooper, at once made him a master of their secret; and he was about to retire as silently as he had advanced, when his companion, pushing himself through the passage, abruptly entered the room.
The gala suit of Captain Lawton was easily adjusted to his huge frame, and his
companion
being ready, they once more took their route towards the cottage.
Years have passed, my sister, but never have I forgotten the
companion
of my infancy!"
The idea of silver in any way was not to be resisted; and, leaving their companion, who began to show faint signs of life, they rushed tumultuously towards the dwelling.
More than once she suggested to her companion, that, as the fighting seemed to be over, the proper time for plunder had arrived, but the veteran acquainted her with his orders, and remained inflexible and immovable; until the washerwoman, observing Lawton come round the wing of the building with Sarah, ventured amongst the warriors.
The dialogue between Lawton and his
companion
ceased with the commencement of their motions, but a footpace being more favorable to speech, the trooper began anew:"Then, you have been an inmate in the same house with Harvey Birch?""For more than nine years," said Katy, drawing her breath, and rejoicing greatly that their speed was abated.
Notwithstanding the unusual burden that Roanoke sustained, he got over the ground with great rapidity, and the distance between the cart of Mrs. Flanagan and the chariot of Miss Peyton was passed in a manner that, however it answered the intentions of the trooper, in no degree contributed to the comfort of his
companion.
Sarah arose from the reclining posture she had taken, and gazed wildly at her
companion.
"And scalp!""Yes, sir, and scalp too," continued the clergyman, eying his
companion
a little suspiciously; "the copper-colored, savage Indians."
"'Tis impossible to behold objects at a distance of three thousand miles!" exclaimed the wondering priest, a little suspicious of his
companion'
s sanity.
"Nothing is more probable than my being deceived," said the man of peace, casting furtive glances at the colossal stature and whiskered front of his companion; "but the rumors we have at home, and the uncertainty of meeting with such an enemy as yourself, induced me to fly at your approach."
Frances glanced her eye at her
companion
with an apparent desire to hear more.
The sword that had been his
companion
in so many fields of blood dropped from his nerveless hand, and as he cried, "May God bless you for the deed!" he wept aloud.
One of the judges placed in his hand a written sentence, that he had prepared while the colonel was engaged with Frances, and declared it to be the opinion of himself and his
companion.
Whither do you travel, Master Blackey, in such godly company?""He goes," said the minister, hastily speaking for his companion, "to return with a book of much condolence and virtue to the sinful youth above, whose soul will speedily become white, even as his outwards are black and unseemly.
To preserve the supposed difference in their stations, Harvey rode a short distance ahead of his companion, and maintained the sober, dignified pace, that was suited to his assumed character.
His imagination, however, continually alarmed him with the fancied sounds of pursuit, though Birch, who occasionally looked back under the pretense of addressing his companion, assured him that all continued quiet and peaceful.
It is hard to die at the best, Captain Wharton; but to spend your last moments alone and unpitied, to know that none near you so much as think of the fate that is to you the closing of all that is earthly; to think that, in a few hours, you are to be led from the gloom, which, as you dwell on what follows, becomes dear to you, to the face of day, and there to meet all eyes fixed upon you, as if you were a wild beast; and to lose sight of everything amidst the jeers and scoffs of your fellow creatures - that, Captain Wharton, that indeed is to die!"Henry listened in amazement, as his
companion
uttered this speech with a vehemence altogether new to him; both seemed to have forgotten their danger and their disguises.
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