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It seems more like a castle in the air than a real fact." "It is not a fact yet," returned Billy, croakingly; "and if this trip doesn't make it a fact, I venture to prophesy you will have an untenanted aerial structure on your hands before long." "You don't believe anything of the sort, Billy Little," said Dic. "I can't lose her. It couldn't happen. It couldn't." "We'll see.
There was a cold wind blowing from somewhere in advance, and bats flew croakingly against it in their retreat from the intruders. Ned heard the clang of a heavy door behind him. Then the current of air was shut off. "This old barn of a place hasn't been used for a hundred years!" Jimmie whispered, clutching Ned by the arm. "What makes you think so?" asked Ned.
It went across his brain like a shattering bolt of lightning, that word. He did not know what the word was or what it meant but it found an echo somewhere and his brain screamed it. "Kieran!" Not his brain alone, his voice was gasping it, harshly and croakingly, his lungs seeming on fire as they expelled the word. He was shaking.
One very old dog, who had always looked with grudging sullenness upon the great Wolfhound and his doings, refused point-blank to be a party to the exodus, and croakingly warned the others against following a new-comer and an outlier such as Finn.
Magic days, with Youth the one glittering, positive treasure on the Tree of Life and Woman still a mystery! "Woman a mystery?" Harshly the phrase ripped through the Senior Surgeon's brain. Croakingly in that instant all the grim gray scientific years re-overtook him, swamped him, strangled him. "Woman a mystery? Oh ye Gods! And Youth? Bah! Youth, a mere tinsel tinkle on a rotting Christmas tree!"
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