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Presently when the moon rose its splendid alchemy would turn the black to glowing silver. A Kentucky brook chuckled boisterously by the hay-camp, tumbling headlong over mossy logs and stones and a tangled lacery of drenched ferns. Philip laid aside a bow and arrow upon which he had been busily working since supper and summoned Dick Whittington.
Hi! Hi-a! He-a! Hi!" Danger was waking in the camp behind, first with one sharp cry, then another and another, until throat after throat took up the sound and the yapping turned into a roar. They were but half-way through the narrow gorge. The two men broke into a stumbling run. Ridgar was going backwards, half-turned to see ahead, and suddenly his foot struck a loose pebble and he fell headlong.
If Pegasus had not been as nimble as a bird, both he and his rider would have been overthrown by the Chimæra's headlong rush, and thus the battle have been ended before it was well begun. But the winged horse was not to be caught so. In the twinkling of an eye he was up aloft, half way to the clouds, snorting with anger.
Such is the headlong tumult, such "the torrent rapture," by which life is let loose amongst the air, the earth, and the waters under the earth.
There is that in the aspect of a fine frame breathing hard facts, which, to a youth who has been tumbled headlong from his card-castles and airy fabrics, is masterful, and like the pressure of a Fate. Evan drooped his head. 'Now, said Mrs. Mel, 'you shall have some supper. Evan told her he could not eat. 'I insist upon your eating, said Mrs. Mel; 'empty stomachs are foul counsellors.
But his spectacular smashing of the memorable corner has passed into history. Insurance on the lakes had ceased with the advent of winter; the granaries of the world were supposed to be scraped clean; so it seemed that he must be rushing headlong to certain destruction. And the sequel, in all conscience, warranted their anxiety. This was the opening fissure.
He was like a horse running downhill harnessed to a heavy cart. Whether he was pulling it or being pushed by it he did not know, but rushed along at headlong speed with no time to consider what this movement might lead to.
And it would be a lusty child, this drama, very soon reaching man's estate and man's inspiring violence of action, striking out like some blind, giant Samson, blundering headlong in its unseeing, uncalculating strength. Helen laid her hands upon her bosom, and threw back her head, while her throat bubbled with suppressed laughter.
When at last they were on top of the bus, with the big, noisy city apparently going in the opposite direction, they promptly forgot all about the studio party and plunged headlong into their own important affairs. "Begin at the very beginning," commanded Eleanor, settling herself for a good long ride; "I want you to tell me everything."
Willoughby's large fortune and grandeur of style had given him advantages at the start. But the start often means the race with women, and a bit of luck. The gentle check upon the galloping heart of Colonel De Craye endured no longer than a second a simple side-glance in a headlong pace.
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