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Ah, London Town, by what subtleties are you tied to the hearts of those born across the sea? That is one of the mysteries of race. Under the pointed arches of old London Bridge, with its hooded shelters for the weary, to where the massive Tower had frowned for ages upon the foolish river.
I've got 'em here, look," and, opening a closet where he temporarily kept his collection of evidence, Donovan took out a pair of heavy bronze candlesticks, in the form of hooded cobras. "That's the one that did the business," said the headquarters detective, showing one candlestick with something dark and unpleasant on the heavier end. "Gad!" exclaimed the colonel.
She would have looked equally appropriate dozing under the hooded light in a railway carriage, taking her place at a table d'hôte in a provincial French town, or walking in the wind and sun along a foreign plage. After looking at the London to which he brought her, Gregory looked at her. Marriage had worked none of its even superficial disenchantments in him.
And each of the embattled kings, Jack-frost and Sombre-pine, has his children in abundance to possess the land as he wins it. Right up to the skirmish line are they. The low thickets of the woods are swarming with Tree-sparrows, Redpolls, Robins, Hooded Sparrows, and the bare plains, a few yards away, are peopled and vocal with birds to whom a bush is an abomination.
Perturbed that the man had vanished, he had slid down into the path to look. Skag breathed. "And now if you will shut the door, Carlin " A great cry from Carlin answered. Thick and viperine, the thing looked, as it hurled forward. It was like the fling of a lash. Four feet away, Skag looked into the hooded head poised to strike, the eyes flaming into an altogether different dimension for battle.
She carried on her left shoulder her short, hooded cloak, and on her flowing hair was a leathern bonnet. By her resolute air, the agility of her step, the perfection of her sweet and virile countenance, one might have taken Meroë for one of those young men whose good looks make maidens dream of marriage. Albinik also was dressed as a mariner.
And again the office rang with Lawton's laugh. A row of gas jets hooded by green paper shades lighting a long table at which sit half a dozen men in their shirt sleeves writing like mad; against the wall other men, one drawing Easter lilies, another blocking in the background around a photograph, a third pasting clippings on sheets of brown paper.
The padres in their brown hooded robes came out upon the long corridor of the mission and welcomed the traveller. Their lands had gone from them, their mission was crumbling, but the spirit of hospitality lingered there still. They laid meat and fruit and drink on a table beneath the arches, then sat about him and asked him eagerly for news of the day.
King demanded. She was leaning over the banisters in her gray flannel dressing-gown, her candle in its hooded candlestick, throwing a flickering light on her square, anxious face. William, locking the front door, made no answer. Martha hesitated, and then came down-stairs. "I must say, William, flatly and frankly, that you " she paused. "You look tired out, Willy?"
She asked no help from others, but she took no needless risks. As she passed the cell of Mary Seraphine, using her master-key, she locked that lady in! Entering her cell, the Prioress saw at once that her orders had been obeyed. The hooded figure stood on the far side of the chamber, leaning broad shoulders against the wall.
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