Confound that buckle." He rose and stamped his feet to settle the shoes.
"Your horse is at the door; that rascal Oscar will take off the blanket for you.

There's a bottle of fair whisky in the cupboard, if you'd like a nip before starting.

Bless me! I forgot the coffee! There on the table, Oscar, and never mind the chairs," he added as Oscar came in with a tin pot and the cups on a piece of plank.
"I'm taking the rifle, Oscar; and be sure those revolvers are loaded with the real goods." There was a great color in Armitage's face as he strode about preparing to leave.

His eyes danced with excitement, and between the sentences that he jerked out half to himself he whistled a few bars from a comic opera that was making a record run on Broadway.

His steps rang out vigorously from the bare pine floor.
"Watch the windows, Oscar; you may forgive a general anything but a surprise--isn't that so, Claiborne ?--and those fellows must be pretty mad by this time.