“Thank you—for coming,” he said. “It has been a delightful evening
for me. "Those
boys out there think this is some new religious rite and that you are skinning the
dog alive to eat him!"
The shock of this information loosened Spurlock's grip on the dog, who bolted
out of the kitchen and out of the house, maintaining his mile-a-minute gait until
he reached the jungle muck, where he proceeded to neutralize the poison with
which he had been lathered by rolling in the muck. He would
pursue that little pastime on some other occasion. "
Quitting the night-cellar, the trio soon arrived at the riverside. "Now, then, Saint Giles!" interposed Sheppard, "are we to be kept here all
night?"
"Eh day!" exclaimed Sharples: "wot new-fledged bantam's this?"
"One that wants to go to roost," replied Sheppard. “She
tried everything, and last of all she tried the stage. Nothing would induce me to
marry you, or any man at present. They're only just
gone, mercy on us! what a clatter," she added, as the knocking was repeated
more violently than before. In a moment or two, Madame Valade recovered her sangfroid. The two
hostlers, however, kept close at his heels; and Jack, whose strength began to flag,
feared he could not hold much longer.
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