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"Where are you going to hang me?" asked Sylvia, as she laid hold of her hammock and looked about her with nearly as much interest as if her suspension was to be of the perpendicular order. "You are not to be swung up in a tree to-night but laid like a ghost, and requested not to walk till morning.
Verse should pave the way with music for the avowal which he had so far failed to force across the barrier between heart and lips. She rose from the hammock and stood beside one of the broad verandah pillars, very straight and slender and flower-like, with the June sun on her hair. Stuart's heart was conscious of a sudden glow.
Carr, who was being lightly swung along in the second palanquin some twenty yards behind Miss Terry's. Shortly afterwards they observed a signal of distress being flown by that lady, whose arm was to be seen violently agitating her green veil from between the curtains of her hammock, which immediately came to a dead stop.
Nothing further of any note occurred during the afternoon to mar the harmony or vary the monotony of our `bag and hammock drill, at which we were religiously kept up to the time to leave off work; when we enjoyed again our tea-supper, and skylarked afterwards till it was time to `turn in, which we managed to do now more comfortably as well as expeditiously than on the night before; while, I may add, my dreams happily were not disturbed by any storms and thunder-claps of that imp Larrikins' contrivance.
Burton's convenience is to be consulted before any one's." She yawned and made a face at Burton. "Very well, father," she replied meekly, "only I might just as well not be engaged at all." "Just as well!" the professor snapped. "Such rubbish!" Edith swung herself upright in the hammock, arranged her skirts, and faced her father indignantly. "How horrid of you!" she exclaimed.
At the moment of the strongest electric explosion, at 4 hours 12 minutes, there were two shocks of earthquake, which followed each other at the interval of fifteen seconds. The people ran into the streets, uttering loud cries. M. Bonpland, who was leaning over a table examining plants, was almost thrown on the floor. I felt the shock very strongly, though I was lying in a hammock.
It was good to avoid the sun and the mosquitoes and the moist heat of the jungle, though I felt a little guilty at lying in a hammock on the shady side of the deck with Evelyn at my side, while my friends were perspiring in the burning sand pits with shovel and pick. Fortunately, it was only a few hours before the last of the boxes buried by Bucks was uncovered.
He lay silent for a little, and presently requested permission to smoke a cigarette. "Of course," she said at once. "Why don't you go and lie in the hammock? I will come and rock you to sleep." He thanked her, smiling, but declined. She watched him light his cigarette with eyes grown thoughtful. Suddenly: "Bertie," she said, "are you very unhappy nowadays?"
Angelo asked again, when he had waited in vain for her to speak, and the waiting had seemed long to both. Mary was sitting almost opposite the hammock, in a chair turned slightly away from it, so that she faced Angelo more fully than she faced Marie, unless she moved her head purposely, as she had moved it when her eyes questioned the eyes of her friend.
His eyes, I observed, were constantly following Arthur. "It is strange," I heard him whispering to himself. "There is a resemblance, and yet, it is so unlikely." Maono was going on favourably; and the recluse was able to crawl from his hammock to attend to him as often as was necessary.
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