Theodore Winthrop

Name: Edwin Brothertoft — Part III, Chapter XVII
Author: Theodore Winthrop

Edwin Brothertoft — Part III, Chapter XVII

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“Edwin Brothertoft — Part III, Chapter XVII”, is a work by Theodore Winthrop. It explores elements such as Lucy, Skerrett and runt.

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Theodore Winthrop, Edwin Brothertoft — Part III, Chapter XVII

“ Major Kerr made an attempt at “Au revoir, Miss Lucy.” But his vinous consonants could not find their places among his vinous vowels, and his civility was inarticulate.
Skerrett halted, and watched Volante among the yellow trees, until there was not even a whisk of her tail to be seen across the luminous haze of the cool starlit night of October.
“Noble horse! lovely lady!” he thought. “It is a sacrifice not to accompany and protect her; but she will be safe, and my duty is with my prisoner. Now, ought I not to go back and tell the wife that she did not kill her husband? Time is precious. ”

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Theodore Winthrop, Edwin Brothertoft — Part III, Chapter XVII

“ The child you have known so long is a woman. Girlhood ends sharply here. The woman says, Good bye.”
As she stood waiting for the signal of flight, suddenly her mother’s cry of alarm broke the silence.
At that ill-omened voice, Lucy trembled, and for one moment despaired.
Then came the sharp crack of the pistol-shot.
The shock startled her into courage. This note of battle joined awaked all the combatant in her. “I cannot hide here,” she thought, “while they are in danger for my sake. I cannot fight, but I may help, if any one is hurt.” ”

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Theodore Winthrop, Edwin Brothertoft — Part III, Chapter XVII

“ He spoke, to be sure, with a burr, and trod as if the floor were undulating gayly beneath him; but why may not haste and eagerness make tongue and feet trip?
“Hooray, Ike!” cries he; “I’ve made all right outside. Plato’s just bringing out your horse, Miss. Thank you for looking after the Sergeant, Miss,” continued Jierck, blundering down on his knees beside Mr. Brothertoft. “How do you find yourself, Sergeant? O, you’ll do. Only a little love-tap the ball gave you. A drop of rum, — capital thing rum, always, — a drop on a bit of brown paper, stuck on the scratch, and you’re all right. ”

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Theodore Winthrop, Edwin Brothertoft — Part III, Chapter XVII

“ She cannot suffer in person at all.”
“I suppose I had better take your word for it.”
“You must. We must not dally a moment. Some straggler may have heard the pistol-shot and be on our track. Now, boys, mount the Major on his pony.”
“My daughter, Skerrett; you will give her your hand for goodwill,” said the father.
In the hazy night she could but faintly see her paladin, and he her. There was no time for thanks and compliments. No time for Lucy to search for the one look with all the woman in it, and the one word with all the spirit in it, that might express her vast passion of gratitude. ”

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Theodore Winthrop, Edwin Brothertoft — Part III, Chapter XVII

“ Feminine reserve had dropped at last, and the creature appeared what her bad life had slowly made her.
“What final horror has done this?” thought Lucy.
She leaned cautiously over the banisters, and beheld the scene in the hall. A sickening sight for a daughter to see! A strange scene in that proud and orderly house! Outward decorum, at least, had always reigned there. Evil had now, at last, undergone its natural development into violence. ”

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Theodore Winthrop, Edwin Brothertoft — Part III, Chapter XVII

“ Nobody listens to your deteriorated King’s English and no more of it shall be here repeated.
“We have not a moment to lose,” said Major Skerrett. “We must not let our success grow cold. I have my prisoner, Mr. Brothertoft, and your daughter is with you. Each of us will take care of his own. For the first ten miles we had better separate. I, with our friend the Major, will make a dash along the straight road, and you will take to the by-paths and the back country, as we agreed. If there is any chase, it will be after us, and we can all fight. I will give you charge of all the non-combatants. ”

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Theodore Winthrop, Edwin Brothertoft — Part III, Chapter XVII

“ He pressed it hastily, and as certainly a portion of his heart also was in his palm, there may have been an exchange of lobes in the hurry.
“Hoist away, Sam!” said Hendrecus Canady, buckling to one of Major Kerr’s limp legs.
“Ay, ay!” rejoined Galsworthy, on his side boosting bravely at the lubberly carcass of the prisoner, while Ike Van Wart held the runt pony’s head. “Seems to me these Britishers get drunker when they’re drunk than we do.”
“We’re so full of the spirit of ’76,” rejoined the root-doctor’s son, “that no other kind of spirit can please us.” ”

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