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Thus he was incidentally enabled to discuss the fortunes of Lucy.
"Never mind," he answered; and, slinging his weapon over his shoulder, strode off down the gorge and so away into the heart of the mountains to the haunts of the wild beasts.
If you had been a fellow of any sensitiveness or delicacy of feeling in that kind of way, Sydney, I might have been a little resentful of your employing such a designation; but you are not.
"I will ride on your back when we are fording the river, and you can protect me from strange animals.
