Be off! my patience is done with.' Then he slammed the door in the young man's face, having kindled his lanthorn by this time: and Charlie went up to the watchplace again, muttering as he passed me, 'Bad look-out for all of us, when that surly old beast is Captain.

No gentle blood in him, no hospitality, not even pleasant language, nor a good new oath in his frowsy pate! I've a mind to cut the whole of it; and but for the girls I would so.' My heart was in my mouth, as they say, when I stood in the shade by Lorna's window, and whispered her name gently.

The house was of one story only, as the others were, with pine-ends standing forth the stone, and only two rough windows upon that western side of it, and perhaps both of them were Lorna's.

The Doones had been their own builders, for no one should know their ins and outs; and of course their work was clumsy.

As for their windows, they stole them mostly from the houses round about.