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Whilst they were coming Captain Weaver said to Captain Acton: "The master of that brig, sir, seems to have his wife aboard.",Hinter put the whistle to his lips and sent a warbling call through the woods. "Stand perfectly still," he said, as he placed the whistle back in his pocket. "I won't let them hurt you. Here they come now.","My name is Stanhope; Frank Stanhope.","'You think you got all of 'em, Bill?" Scraff called.,"No," Wilson pushed back his chair and felt for his pipe, "but he seems to want to own the whole Settlement. He made me an offer for my place and he tried to buy Cobin Keeler's farm, too, so Cobin says.","I couldn't see that she had, your honour.","I met Miss Acton as I was coming home," said Mr Lawrence, "and she said she had left you and her father talking about me.","Then let's get out of his way. I suppose he thinks we have no business here and maybe he's right. Where shall we go, Billy?","It's awful," said Billy in awed tones. "I got as far as the first pond. It was far enough for me.","Oh, I can so!",He mused a little with his eyes fastened upon the ship's decks. For a space he was deeply sunk in thought. Presently his eyes rose to the figure before him, and he examined him as curiously as though he had never before seen him.,"We'll not argue the point. St Vincent objects to inoculation for small-pox because he says that that disease is intended by God to keep the population down.".