ONE:However, there was not the urgency for instant flight that Charlotte had thought there was; night fell; a whole regiment of our mounted infantry came silently up from the rear of the plantation and bivouacked without lights behind a quarter of a mile of worm-fence; our two wounded and three unharmed prisoners, or Miss Harper's, I should say, for it was in response to her entreaties that the latter had thrown down their arms, were taken away; the dead man was borne out; lights glowed in every room, the servants returned to their tasks, a maddening fragrance came from the kitchen, and the three nieces flitted everywhere in their benign activities, never discovering the hurt on my shoulder until everything else on earth had been discovered, and then--"Oh, Richard, Richard!" from Estelle, with "Reach-hard, Reach-hard!" from Ccile, and "Mr. Smith!" from Camille, as they bathed and bound it. At length a surgeon arrived, gave a cheering opinion of Ferry and of Charlotte, and scolded Harry savagely for the really bad condition of his hand. Then sounds grew few and faint, our lights went out, we lay down fully dressed, and nearly all of us, for a while, slept.Ah, I dare say hell find something he likes, said this dreadful old lady, observing with malicious{22} pleasure that Alices colour, as she would have phrased it, was mounting.
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ONE:He left the room without more words, and Lady Keeling settled another cushion against what must be called the small of her back.
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ONE:"Sayonara!" said Frank, raising his cap and bowing towards the receding land.I was tempted to say it was me, too, but I forbore and only said it was I.
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ONE:He had already pulled a sheaf of papers towards him, and was turning them over.
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