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A pound was issued to him weekly, as to the other boys; but as candles were available capital, and easily exchangeable for birds' eggs or young birds, Martin's pound invariably found its way in a few hours to Howlett's the bird-fancier's, in the Bilton road, who would give a hawk's or nightingale's egg or young linnet in exchange.
Seemed like it had made me just for the fun of pushing me under them wheels and seeing them tear and grind me. Oh! how I hated it!" "So have I," said Miss Amory, her steady eyes looking more like a hawk's than ever. Susan stared more than before. "I suppose I ought to have hated Jack Williams," she went on, her throat evidently filling, "but I never did. I loved him.
The mournful barking of young foxes, anxious for their dinners, thrilled the air with sounds of woe. Among the smaller birds the early nesters were already twittering in minor among the trees and thickets; a mountain-eagle cleft the air in the hawk's trail, so high that only a keen eye could have caught sight of him.
She goes rapidly from stall to stall, jingling her pockets, laughing and chatting with the farmers' wives, all the time keeping a hawk's eye on the basket-carriers, not one of whom may presume to sell so much as an onion without the weekly toll of one sou. She darts in and out among them, and her pockets swell out in front as if they were stuffed with apples.
His hawk's eyes flashed over her face, as though he would pierce through the veil of her grave and tranquil expression. "Even though Peter Mallory's free to marry you now?" he demanded suddenly. "Peter!" The word came in a shrinking whisper. She threw out her hands appealingly. "Roger, can't we leave the past behind?
It was rather scary, I can tell you, and I was glad to get down to the ground again; but I got the hawk's nest." Then Elvira asked him if he could tell her the name of the bird with a yellow head, but otherwise black plumage, which she had noticed not long before in a flock of common blackbirds; and they were soon in an animated conversation on the subject of birds in general.
"Miranda said the island was a hundred miles long and the mountains seem to run all the way down the centre of it." "Didn't you see the last picture?" he said, grabbing up his hat from the ground and cramming it on his head. "It was an oddly shaped mountain looked like a hawk's head. Well, there's where he is if he's still alive.
'You hear him, ma'am? said Mr Pluck, looking round; 'you hear the unimpeachable testimony of my friend Pyke that reminds me, formalities, formalities, must not be neglected in civilised society. Pyke Mrs Nickleby. Mr Pyke laid his hand upon his heart, and bowed low. 'Any friend of Sir Mulberry Hawk's requires no better introduction to me, observed Mrs Nickleby, graciously.
A tribute of gold-dust was laid upon every adult native in the island. Every three months a hawk's bell full of gold was to be brought to the treasury at Isabella, and in the case 39 of caciques the measure was a calabash.
Colonel Bob Grand descended upon the show the following afternoon. His customary advent was always somewhat in the nature of a hawk's visitation among a brood of chickens: it was quite as disturbing and equally as hateful. Moreover, like the hawk, he came when least expected. "Oh, how I loathe that man," whispered Christine to David.
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