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Immersed in his own grape-vine castle her jailer was unmindful of the approaching rider, and she turned her face from him that he might not read her exultation. Closer resounded the beating hoofs, but her impatience outstripped the pursuer, and she was almost impelled to rush to the window. Who was the horseman? Was it Barnes? Saint-Prosper? The latter's name had quickly suggested itself to her.
Rowan seemed to me, as I recall him now, to have risen out of the earth through my father and mother a growth of wild nature, with the seasons in his face, with the blood of the planet rising into his veins as intimately as it pours into a spring oak or into an autumn grape-vine. I often heard Professor Hardage call him the earth-born. He never called any one else that.
I am told they eat it in the hot countries." "Yes, sir, they do; they fry it with pepper and salt; they call it bringal. I think it must be that." "I do not doubt but you are right," replied Mr Seagrave. "Why, William, you should know this." "It is like the grape-vine." "Yes, and it is so; it is the wild grape; we shall eat them by and bye." "I have only one more, papa: what is this?"
Others who had been discharged, or whose regiments had been paroled, were constantly passing near our place. The "grape-vine telegraph" was kept busy night and day. The news and mutterings of great events were swiftly carried from one plantation to another.
It began with a succession of limited immediate scenes and of certain minutely perceived persons; I recall an underground kitchen with a drawered table, a window looking up at a grating, a back yard in which, growing out by a dustbin, was a grape-vine; a red-papered room with a bookcase over my father's shop, the dusty aisles and fixtures, the regiments of wine-glasses and tumblers, the rows of hanging mugs and jugs, the towering edifices of jam-pots, the tea and dinner and toilet sets in that emporium, its brighter side of cricket goods, of pads and balls and stumps.
The busy wharves of the Leichardt's Land Steam Navigation Company familiarly, the L.L.S.N. Co. lay opposite on her right, while leftward, across the water, she could trace, as far as the grape-vine would allow, the boundary of the Botanical Gardens and get a sight of the white stone and grey slate end of the big Parliamentary Buildings.
"I wonder," she said once with girlish simplicity, "how it would feel to float away off there among those clouds." She had discovered a natural swing of a wild grape-vine, and was sitting in it with Martha and George. "Oh, wouldn't it be nice if you had a boat up there," said George. She was looking with uplifted face at a far-off cloud, a red island in a sea of silver.
After a dainty egg and fish dinner, Tom said he wanted to learn to smoke, now. Joe caught at the idea and said he would like to try, too. So Huck made pipes and filled them. These novices had never smoked anything before but cigars made of grape-vine, and they "bit" the tongue, and were not considered manly anyway.
Down in the corner, sharp upon the water, the east-winds broke about a little yellow house, where no children played; an old man's face watched at a window, and a nasturtium-vine crawled in the garden. The broken panes of glass about the place were well mended, and a clever little gate, extemporized from a wild grape-vine, swung at the entrance. It was not an old man's work.
The Pocket Hunter had seen destruction by the violence of nature and the violence of men, and felt himself in the grip of an All-wisdom that killed men or spared them as seemed for their good; but of death by sickness he knew nothing except that he believed he should never suffer it. He had been in Grape-vine Canon the year of storms that changed the whole front of the mountain.
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