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I am in the luck to be a private soldier; I have no parole to give or to keep; once I am over the rampart, I am as free as air. I beg you to believe that I regret from my soul the use of these ungenerous expressions. Allow me . . . Is there no way in this damned house to attract attention? Where is this fellow, Fenn? I ran to one of the windows and threw it open.
But as she released her hold upon the knob she thought she heard some one moving about within the other room. Perhaps the gentleman had his wife with him, and impelled by a wild hope, Mona knocked upon a panel to attract attention, and the next moment she was sure she caught the rustle of skirts as some one glided toward her.
Even the buildings or shop windows of a city only attract a languid amount of attention; but a street quarrel, or a war of words between two excited females, will soon draw a large crowd.
Jerking the rope to attract Couttet's attention, I told him in a low voice to pass the others at the first opportunity. "We'll do it on the Grand Plateau," he whispered. Five minutes later, however, the advance party paused to take breath.
But it is known that the pupil of the eye is black so as to attract the rays of the sun, for if it were another color—that is, uniformly white—it would not attract the rays of the sun. Therefore, as the reason of the things we have mentioned is unknown, it is possible that the reason and the wisdom of these traces of members, whether they be in the animal or man, are equally unknown.
But it was not necessary to sow buckwheat in order to attract the pheasants. And he had no right whatever to set snares in Lord Woodruff's covers, which, though they could not catch him, the gamekeepers were certain he did.
She is dead, and I am here." I rose and walked to the window, and looked out on the misty sea, and felt strangely. "Another lover," I thought, "and Redmond's friend, and Laura's. But it all belongs to the comedy we play." He came to where I stood. "I know you so well," he said, "your pride, your self-control, even your foibles: but they attract one, too.
"Is it true what I hear that he's a gun-man, a Mormon-hater, steeped in blood?" "True terribly true, I fear." "But what's he doing here in Cottonwoods? This place isn't notorious enough for such a man. Sterling and the villages north, where there's universal gun-packing and fights every day where there are more men like him, it seems to me they would attract him most.
To her the thought of giving to another what she still felt could belong only to Ned seemed monstrous. When other young men tried to attract her attention she would have nothing to do with them.
Since that time it has, in a great measure, retrieved its character; it is now doing what it can to attract free immigrants, and offers large tracts of pastoral land at low rentals, while the farming classes are attracted by free selection at only ten shillings an acre, with ten years in which to pay it.
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