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A sudden inspiration seized him; he caught the book Lawyer Ed was brandishing and, opening it, laid it carefully on the top of the gate-post. "It's more feenished and rounded off, with the 'Aye-men, is it?" he enquired with deep sarcasm. "But you would not be feenishing it after all. If ye're bound and deturmined to put a tail on the end o' the hime, why don't ye sing awl that's in the book.
Then he hid his face against the great gate-post, murmuring only in a dry and broken sob, "C' è sole?" Paula herself was touched. She put her hand on his shoulder. "It is a silly thing," said she. "Do not take it so to heart. Put it out of sight. There is many a pretty tambourine-tosser to smile upon you, I'll warrant!" But Luigi vouchsafed no response. "Come," said she, "pluck up your courage.
She attended the usual round of dinners, teas and tennis parties, that are part of the system by which the English keep alive their courage, and growing after a while a little tired of trivialty, she tried to scandalize Sialpore by inviting Tom Tripe to her own garden party, successfully overruling Tripe's objections. "Between you and I and the gate-post, lady, they don't hanker for my society.
How she and Billy had whispered and plotted, and how great the triumph when together they climbed the gate-post and, after much toil, successfully planted their little red and white flag! But now, alas! all was changed, they were fast getting to be grown-up people, and now her own dear Billy must go to help drive the Yankees out of Dixie.
Because Martin had been right in his assertion concerning the gate-post, Blanchard felt a hazy conviction that Blee's estimate of the stone's virtue must also prove correct. He saw his wife at the window, and waved to her, and cried aloud that the cross was uncovered. "A poor thing in holy relics, sure 'nough," said Billy, wiping his forehead. "But a cross a clear cross?
He turned upon her, suddenly, a face like a mother's, and touched her hand with a light caress. "I stay in a workhouse sevena-hunder' year," he said gently, "you come seeta by window some-a-time." At this Bertha turned away, was silent for a space, leaning on the gate-post in front of her uncle's house, whither they were now come.
An instant later the sound of flying steps on the gravel, and a girl's shrill voice: "Dr. King!" "Here, Lydia!" William said, running towards the little figure; "what's the matter!" Helena, in the shadow of the gate-post, only caught a word: "Sam " And the doctor and the child were swallowed up in the night.
Tom Buck, the Rushmere constable, was just returning from a round, and he touched his hat respectfully to the gentlemen. Colonel Keppel told the story, and Buck slapped the gate-post with his open hand. "Well, gentlemen," he said in surprise, "then they are the very men I've just been hearing about." "What's that?" said Colonel Keppel. "Where have you heard of them?"
So be it! cried the clerk, who was far behind, being only a shoemaker. Then Parson Bowden read some verses from the parish Bible, telling us to lift up our eyes, and look upon the fields already white to harvest; and then he laid the Bible down on the square head of the gate-post, and despite his gown and cassock, three good swipes he cut off corn, and laid them right end onwards.
"Let me introduce you to Caesar," he said; and she patted Caesar's neck, and remarked how soft his nose was, and secretly deplored the ugliness of equine teeth. Ramage tethered the horse to the farther gate-post, and Caesar blew heavily and began to investigate the hedge. Ramage leaned over the gate at Ann Veronica's side, and for a moment there was silence.
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