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All at once the hammering strokes ceased and the rattle of rifle fire died out in a desultory spatter as stray bullets impinged against the stout adobe wall. Jim Baggott from his perch upon a heap of chairs before the window called out in amazement: "They've drawn back clear across the road! Reckon they've given it up as a bad job at last! The dawn's almost here." "Don't fool yourself!"
It was the same bright face which years ago was turned on her with words of consolation; the same childish pleading, for Dawn's face was a type of her spirit, free, innocent and pure. "Will you promise without an explanation?" "I will, strange as it seems; but, may I ask you one question, before we leave this subject?" "Certainly." "Has Ralph or Marion ever injured you?" "Never.
One man pressed the electric button, kicked the door, and pounded with the knocker, others hurled pebbles at the upper windows, and the fifth stood in the road and sang: "Oh, say, can you see, by the dawn's early light?" A policeman arrested us for throwing stones at the consular sign.
Had she read the address on that letter which he had given her to post to General Braithwaite, and put two and two together? He met her eyes good, gray eyes, with something of Lady Dawn's grave honesty in their expression. "I think he has realized." "Thank you, sir; and I'm sorry I had to trouble you."
It was one day when we had driven east from Noonoon that she remarked "It's a wonder that Mr Breslaw would care for Dawn's style when he moves in such a smart set. She is a handsome girl, which covers a multitude of sins in that respect, but still she is very downright, and and, well, doesn't quite conform to the rules of refinement."
A moment later a window in the administration building was thrown open and we were greeted with a loud and not over-musical chorus of "Oh, say, can you see by the dawn's early light " It all came from one throat, belonging to a chap in leathers, who came down the drive to give us welcome. "Spotted you toute suite" he said. "You can tell Americans at six hundred yards by their hats.
The choice her parents had made for her in Dudley, behind the mystery she had scent of, nipped her dream, and prepared her to meet, as it were, the fireside of a November day instead of springing up and into the dawn's blue of full summer with swallows on wing.
His lamp had burned itself quite out; the moon was fallen below the clump of pines, and away to the north-east something stirred in the stain and texture of the sky. Felix opened the window. What peace out there! The chill, scentless peace of night, waiting for dawn's renewal of warmth and youth.
Carry, up aloft like the angels, could be heard practising on my piano, and the soiled utensils scattered on the table illustrated that the gentlemen had had refreshments. It being Dawn's week in the kitchen, she set about collecting the cups in the wash-up dish, and presently some maudlin expression of sentiment on the part of the Rooney-Molyneux reopened the vials of her indignation.
When I came to it was dark enough for lights, Dawn's well-moulded hands were supporting my head, Grandma Clay's voice was sternly engineering affairs, and Andrew was blubbering at the foot of the bed on which I was resting.
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