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Then, without sound or warning, except for the footsteps on the paving-stones and the sudden darkening of the sunshine on the floor, there came the figure for which all looked. He was met by silence; he was escorted by silence; and in silence he sat down. Then the waiting crowd surged in, poured this way and that, and flowed into the benches. And Mr. Barton's voice was raised in holy exhortation.
We had not gone a dozen yards down the lane when we heard footsteps and a whistle behind us, and a scrabbling and whining, and a gentleman with two fox-terriers had called a halt just by the place where we had laid low the 'little red rover'. The gentleman stood in the lane, but the dogs were digging we could see their tails wagging and see the dust fly. And we SAW WHERE. We ran back.
"Ah!" said he, "if I could only see him again safe and well, if I could only leave you with him as your protector and support, I believe I could forgive all the past and be reconciled even to my hard lot." "God gives you opportunity so to do, my father, for here I am safe and sound." The soft snow had muffled the son's footsteps, and his approach had been unnoted.
Bevis put his arm about Monica, and felt her heart give great throbs against his own. Their passion for the moment was effectually quenched. 'Listen! That's the clink of the letter-box. A card or something has been put in. Then it's all right. I'll wait a moment. He stepped to the door of the room, opened it without sound, and at once heard footsteps descending the stairs.
Roland followed the latter, sure that he could recover the traces of the others. The one who had entered the town and followed the main street had stopped at a pretty house between court and garden, numbered 67. He had rung and some one had let him in; for through the iron grating could be seen traces of footsteps, and beside them the tracks of a horse being led to the stable.
As I was carrying the basket home, I felt as if the devil was in me, and the temptation was so strong that I undid the cord and took one out. Hearing someone coming up behind me, I slipped it hurriedly into my pocket and took up the basket and started off again. "I heard the footsteps coming closer until who should come up to me but my best friend, Jonathan?
So she took to dogging their footsteps wherever they went, attended their uprisings and their lyings down, engaged them, if she could, in intelligent conversation, went with them into the garden to study their ways when they were sleighing, drawn by a big dog, and generally made their lives a burden to them.
Other ears would listen to the warbling songster other forms would sit in her accustomed seats and enjoy the pleasing sunshine other hands would pluck the lonely flowers blooming in beauty all around other footsteps would roam over the soft green grass that gently raised its head as she tripped lightly along in former years. These were the friends of Mary Douglas, truly the child of nature.
What was her surprise, on perceiving that there was not the slightest trace of so much labor! no image at all! no piled up heap of snow! nothing whatever, save the prints of little footsteps around a vacant space! "This is very strange!" said she. "What is strange, dear mother?" asked Violet. "Dear father, do not you see how it is?
Presently Bartley heard heavy, deliberate footsteps ascending the stairway. Then a clanging crash and a thud, right outside his door. He flung the door open. Senator Steve was rising from the flattened semblance of a washtub and feeling of himself tenderly. The Senator blinked, surveyed the wrecked tub and the kettle silently, and then without comment he stepped back and kicked the kettle.
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