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And so they passed in among the trees, making their way through the straggling undergrowth, while the soft March wind blew moist and sweet all around them, and the blackbirds and thrushes filled the world with their silver melody, and in the more distant woods the ringdoves crooned. Maurice Mangan followed her in silence.
Walley Johnson was the one who had come in answer to her long wailing, who had hugged her close, and wrapped her up, and crooned over her in his pity, and driven away the terrors. But she did not like to look at him, though his gaunt, sallow face was strong and kind. People are apt to talk easy generalities about the intuition of children!
"Gone, gone, gone," crooned the woman, clutching her hands at her breast again. "Jed has taken her taken her to Mooney's shack, over near the railroad. Oh, my God! I tried to keep her, but I couldn't. He dragged her away, and tonight he's sellin' her to Mooney the devil the black brute the tie-cutter "
He crooned them now, his head flung back a little, his gaze intent on a gossamer film that floated just above the pine tops 'still as a brooding dove....
At once the skeropythrope began to sputter and emit sparks of a violet color, which spread in all directions. The Sorceress instantly stepped into the middle of the boat and held the instrument so that the sparks fell all around her and covered every bit of the blackened steel boat. At the same time Glinda crooned a weird incantation in the language of sorcery, her voice sounding low and musical.
No ma'an, I ain't never seen it: I don't know where is it even, but oh! it could to be awful pretty!" "Yes, honey, it is," said Teacher. "Very, very pretty. When I was a little girl I lived in the country." "All day?" asked Morris. "Yes, all day." "Und all night?" "Yes, dear." "Oh, poor Miss Bailey," crooned Eva. "It could to be a awful sickness what you had." "No, I was very well.
Then, with a smile as broad and genial as that of the sun, he drew out my chair from behind the ancestral silver coffee urn, which was puffing out clouds of fragrant steam. "Breakfast am sarved, honey chile," he crooned soothingly, "an' yo' Mammy done put the liver wing right ag'in yo' fork."
I'll pour a bucket of cistern water over you and rub you down so as you'll sleep like a bug in a rug," the staunch old comrade crooned, with a mother note in his voice, as he took father's heavy hoe and shouldered it with his. "I think evening exercise is good for me, Dabney," answered father with all the dignity and command come back into his voice.
The river flashed its response and crooned its lullaby, and like children answering the maternal voice, the frogs gave chorus and the whippoorwills called plaintively from the woods.
Possibly it was silly in a girl who was almost through her freshman year at high school, but Nan brought out Beautiful Beulah and rocked her, and hugged her, and crooned over her before she went to bed. She was such a comfort! So Nan, on this evening, went first of all to the closet and reached down to draw out the box in which she had kept the doll hidden ever since coming to Pine Camp.
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