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You bet our War Office isn't going to be caught napping this time." Bert's incredulity was shaken. He asked questions and the soldier expanded. "I tell you they got nearly a square mile fenced in a sort of valley. Fences of barbed wire ten feet high, and inside that they do things. Chaps about the camp now and then we get a peep. It isn't only us neither.
We laid a floor in our cabin, and fenced a couple of fields one to plant our corn in, and the other to keep Pompo from straying off into the woods, and meeting with some animal that might feel inclined to devour him. We also succeeded in killing several red-deer and a couple of elk, which we stored up for our winter provision.
I wanted to go too but he wouldn't let me," she added. Jean gasped. "Tony! You would have married him when your uncle when everybody doesn't want you to?" To Jean Lambert's well ordered, carefully fenced in mind such wild mental leaps as Tony Holiday's were almost too much to contemplate. But worse was to come. "Married him! Oh, I don't know. I didn't think about that.
In the mean time I had proved up on my preemption, and had all my land fenced in with a picket fence made of red wood pickets. I had also got sick and tired of ranching, not but what I had done fairly well, but it was too much bother for a man that had been raised as I had.
"We've made two or three discoveries," he said, glancing at Ayscough. "To start with, there were footprints of a rather unusual sort round these bushes where the man was lying so I've had it carefully fenced in around there we'll have a better look at 'em, in daylight. Very small prints, you understand more like a woman's than a man's."
Beyond it is the gestatio~ laid out in the form of a circus running round the multiform box-hedge and the dwarf-trees, which are cut quite close. The whole is fenced in with a wall completely covered by box cut into steps all the way up to the top.
The meadow was not fenced little more than marked off, indeed, upon one side, from a field of growing corn, by a low wall of earth, covered with moss and grass and flowers.
Twenty feet high, a light but strong scaffold had been rapidly, and practically silently, erected the whole structure having all its separate parts fitted with automatic lockings. The scaffold stood just outside the railings that fenced the cathedral from the "Fan." On the platform of the scaffold was a conical-shaped block, enamelled in a brilliant red.
"It's gude to have a friend at court," he said, continuing his heartless harangues to the passive auditor, who neither heard nor replied to them; "few folk but mysell could hae sorted ye out a seat like this the Lords will be here incontinent, and proceed instanter to trial. They wunna fence the Court as they do at the Circuit the High Court of Justiciary is aye fenced.
Suddenly I emerged through a copse of ancient yew-trees, and before me there gleamed, in abrupt whiteness, a building evidently designed for the family mausoleum, classical in its outline, with the blind iron door niched into stone walls of massive thickness, and surrounded by a funereal garden of roses and evergreens, fenced with an iron rail, party-gilt.
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