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Sir John Redgauntlet ordered the servants out of the room, and then said to my gudesire, 'Now, Steenie, ye see ye have fair play; and, as I have little doubt ye ken better where to find the siller than ony other body, I beg, in fair terms, and for your own sake, that you will end this fasherie; for, Stephen, ye maun pay or flit.
At the approach of the Abbot, however, fearing premature recognition, the monarch will flit away; but his gypsy friends compel him to accept a bugle, upon which he is to blow a blast when in danger. The Abbot and his followers arrive, and Robin Hood offers the money to redeem Sir Richard's bond; but, upon a legal quibble, the Abbot declines to receive it preferring to seize the forfeited land.
Now over all reigns a decorous silence, such as we moderns deem fitting for a cemetery; only the hum of insects breaks the deep quiet of the atmosphere, nor are there any living creatures visible at this late hour save the bats which flit restlessly in and out of the weed-grown piles of brick or stone that once were stately monuments of wealth or piety.
I was just dropping into an uneasy slumber when I heard a commotion in the girls' room across the hall. Their door opened and through our own open door I saw Felicity's white-clad figure flit down the stairs to Aunt Janet's room. From the room she had left came moans and cries. "Cecily's sick," said Dan, springing out of bed. "That cucumber must have disagreed with her."
An idea seemed to flit across the wrinkled forehead of don Andrés, tracing a wicked smile around his lips: "You know what I think, Rafael? You're young and you're handsome, and you've been abroad. Why don't you make a try for her, if only to prick the bubble of her conceit and show her there are people here, too. They say she's mighty good-looking, and, what the deuce! It wouldn't be so hard.
"Or a cousin or an aunt?" suggested the old man, naively unconscious that the words sounded like a quotation. I saw the ghost of a smile flit over Derrick's harassed face as he shook his head. "I suggested that he should go into some Home for cases of the kind," resumed the doctor, "or place himself under the charge of some medical man; however, he won't hear of such a thing.
Then, at the first breath of the Frost King, they flit away and leave us so still and quiet." "What about this saucy bird, here called whisky jack, that we meet with on all of our wintry journeys?" asked Alec. "Well," replied Mrs Ross, "you see, in the first place, that he is not very handsome.
Wade had said, the first evening, as the two young men, with Wade's mother sat in the sultry dusk, with the Virginian creeper drawing, between the verandah arches, its black arabesques against a moon-lined sky. In the darkness Bernald heard a step on the gravel, and saw the red flit of a cigar through the shrubs.
Pretty presences in the tie-backs of the period were seen to flit before the home of virtuous poverty, hungering for any chance sight of him which his outgoings or incomings might give.
Prentiss had not related a single anecdote of the front, nor alluded to the fact that she was a Red Cross nurse. But she and Kate Terriss sat up until midnight. They were both women capable of seizing those rare opportunities for service that flit past so many intelligent women lacking initiative, and here was one that the most clear-thinking man would have envied.
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