Beadle's Dime Novels No. 213: Squatter Dick — page 42: what you’re looking at

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<4 ) SQUATTER DICK. “TI can readily believe that the task is a distasteful one to your paragon, for he is far more likely to win hard biows than honor ; besides, the mud and swamp water soils his fine clothes so terribly. The bushes ‘and thorns do not spare them, nor even his namby-pamby doll’s fuce and hands he is so proud of, und I dare wager that he is laid up now, with them in a poultice of bread and milk to cure the scratches and remove the tan! Would you really believe, the dandy rode into fight with a pair of lavender kids on the other day ?” ridiculed the young partisan. “ Did you find his blows any the weaker for that ?” retorted Ada. “No, I will admit that he is brave enough, after his sort,” confessed the other, “as I can testify, He gaye me this lame shoulder, but had not my horse went down from a bullet, he pever would have lived to boast of it.” “Js it very bad ?’ queried the lady. “ Only a scratch that a week's time will heal. But seriously, my darling, L wish that you would not have quite so much to do with this English officer. I have heard a good deal about you two, more, perhaps, than you think, and I tell you frankly that I don’t like it.” “Jt is not my fault, James. He visits father so often, and I must treat him politely—” ~ “J fear it is more to see the daughter than the father that he stops. so often and long at the house,” reproached James, “ Bat surely politeness does not compel you to take such long des and walks with him, does it ?” _ “ Really, you are too bad, James ; he is a geritleman, and I like him. He is very pleasant company, and then the times are so unsettled now that it is dangerous to leave the house, unprotected, Doctor Raynham says I must take daily exer- cise, and of course it is more pleasant to have Colonel De Forrest than that dolt, Tom, yonder,” rather petulantly re- turned the young lady. “ But, Ada, you-must remember that you are the betrothed of an. American soldier, and that this would-be fuscinating colonel is one of our most bitterenemies. I tell you it must be ttopped, and the sooner the better !” “* Must? indeed! Mr. Sloan, you forget yourself It is comlicbooks.com |