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Kicking off my shoes, I dived after him from the roof of the house; for he had gone down, and I was not sure that he would come up again. I could not help thinking that this accident had ruined my enterprise. Though it seemed to be a long time to me, and doubtless a much longer time to him, he had not been in the water more than three seconds when I dived after him.
But when he heard the sharp click of gun-locks, out there in the darkness, at one jump he had leaped over his fire and dived for safety. A volley scattered the fire and spurted the sod under his flying feet. He had been none too prompt. Away he ran, as before, only this time he was better clothed.
Henry and his comrades dived instantly and swam as far as they could under water toward the eastern shore. When they came up again the flatboat and its terrible cannon were gone, heavy darkness again hung over land and water, and pieces of burning wood were falling with a hissing splash into the river. But they heard the voices of warriors calling to each other, organizing already for pursuit.
He threaded a labyrinth of obscure streets, no longer in the Faubourg Montmartre, and dived at last into one of the few courts which preserve the cachet of the moyen age untouched by the ruthless spirit of improvement which during the second empire has so altered the face of Paris.
And while we gazed at scribbled records, blots, and marks, the loud "slap plong" of a Beaver showed from time to time that the thrifty ones had dived at our approach. On the way up Jarvis had gone first in the small canoe; he saw 2 Bears, 3 Beaver, and 1 Lynx; I saw nothing but birds. On the way down, being alone, the luck came my way.
Now the dear little craft lies on the bottom of the lake, broken and spoiled!" "I shouldn't dare to put my foot in her again," added Miss Fanny. "I shudder when I think of her." "I shudder when I think of you, Fanny. You were sinking when Lawry dived down after you," said Mr. Sherwood. "We ought all to be grateful to God for His mercy in saving us," added Fanny Jane.
She felt as if he had returned from the dead. He was a wonderful boy. "Bravo! Bravissimo!" Serenely unconscious of her enthusiasm, the boy swam slowly for a moment, breathing the air into his lungs, then serenely dived again. "Vere!" called a woman's voice from the house "Vere!" "Madre!" cried the girl in reply, but without turning away from the sea. "I am here! Do come out!
"Give it to me at once" and Eulogia dived into her aunt's pocket and found the note. "Beautiful and idolized Eulogia. Adios! Adios! I came a stranger to thy town. I fell blinded at thy feet. I fly forever from the scornful laughter in thine eyes. Ay, Eulogia, how couldst thou? But no! I will not believe it was thou!
"Well, if you insist," consented Austin, as he dragged himself into the seat. "Have you fixed upon a day?" "No any day will do. Just choose one yourself," said Aunt Charlotte, as she dived after an errant ball of worsted. "What day will suit you best?" "Shall we say the 24th?" suggested Austin. "By all means," replied his aunt briskly. "If you're sure that that won't interfere with anything else.
Shann was still thinking along that line as he splashed through the surf which broke about the lower jaw of the skull island, climbed up one of the pointed rocks which masqueraded as a tooth, and reached for a higher hold to lead him to the nose slit, the gateway to the alien's hiding place. The clak-claks screamed and dived about him, highly resentful of his intrusion.
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