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A maid may love a man, and a man may love a maid, and neither know that the other is sick of the same pip, poor fowls." "What do you mean, witch?" Gabrielle questioned. Flora twirled a pirouette before she replied: "Nothing less than nothing. I dance here by-and-by to please a grandee. Will you peep through your lattice?" "Perhaps," Gabrielle answered, cautiously. Then she gave a little start.
Quite the contrary: she was a vertebrate animal, very vertebrate indeed, and a ride on her back represented a journey upon the edge of a Brobdingnagian blunt saw, set up along a kind of broad lattice covered with a skin. There was a favourite old sow at the Toft which was often put in requisition, but she only carried one.
It was a long, narrow room over the kitchen, with a sloping roof. Three steps led down into it. There was a window at one end, a small lattice with an iron bar nailed to the outside vertically.
She tried to move another step towards the bench, and her strength almost failed her; she caught at the lattice of the old summer-house, still pressing one hand to her breast. The rotten slabs of the wood-work cracked under her light weight.
From the cutting we passed into a long tortuous burrow walled and roofed with carefully fitted logs. The earth floor was covered by a sort of wooden lattice. The only light entering this tunnel was a faint ray from an occasional narrow slit screened by branches; and beside each of these peep-holes hung a shield-shaped metal shutter to be pushed over it in case of emergency.
She rose from her bed in a state of fixed determination that never faltered again. When Eleanor was dressed, she turned not to the front of the house where the business of drawing back a life was afoot, but to the fresh silences of her garden. She walked to the lattice whose view commanded the bay and the distant Gate. It was a quiet, dull-gold morning on the Roads.
"Poor thing, poor thing!" she said kindly. "Come away with me, and lie down! You mustn't sit here, let me shut the lattice, it's quite late at night, and too cold for you, my dear." "Too cold?" and Thelma eyed her wonderingly. "Why, it is summer-time, and the sun never sets! The roses are all about the walls I gave one to Philip yesterday a little pale rose with a crimson heart.
I had not sat long, before the lattice of one of the houses in the street opened and a young lady, as she were the moon at its full, never in my life saw I her like, put forth her head and began to water some flowers she had on the balcony. Then she turned right and left and seeing me watching her, smiled and shut the window and went away.
"I will be yours," she murmured: "I am at your mercy; I have no longer any existence but in you. My only fear is, that I shall cease to be worthy of your love!" Falkland pressed his lips once more to her own: it was his only answer, and the last seal to their compact. As they stood before the open lattice, the still and unconscious moon looked down upon that record of guilt.
But Hunsden comes; I hear his step, and there he is, bending through the lattice, from which he has thrust away the woodbine with unsparing hand, disturbing two bees and a butterfly. "Crimsworth! I say, Crimsworth! take that pen out of his hand, mistress, and make him lift up his head. "Well, Hunsden? I hear you "
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