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But the larger windows looked southwards, across the bay at this moment the noon-high sun was pouring his radiance through them; while the object which held Bigot's gaze and fixed him to his irksome seat, lay elsewhere.
Jimmie hobbled around her, driving Sally with her knitted reins, but they did not keep their sister awake. The sun was almost noon-high when she opened her eyes, and she hurried guiltily back to the beets. She had never seen such a big field, its green and brown stripes waving up and down to the skyline.
"The moon was noon-high by then an' filterin' down through the leaves wonderful soft, an' things was still I remember thinkin' it was like the hushin'-up before a bride comes in, but there wasn't any bride. "When we come to our house just as we begun to smell the savoury bed clear out there on the walk we heard something ... a little bit of a noise that I couldn't put a name to, first.
I refrained from mentioning the tragedy of yesterday and the sun was noon-high before he brought the matter up. "I couldn't kill that feller," he abruptly informed me. There was no preface to indicate whom he meant, but I knew and nodded sympathetically. "An' I'd ruther kill him than all the rest o' the Injuns 'tween here 'n' Detroit," he added after a long pause.
Their squaws an' boys are cuttin' saplin's for to carry off their wounded! They'll need a heap o' stretchers afore this day is over!" The sun was now noon-high and the heat was beastly. The battle was at its climax. The left column was near a little pond and about fifty yards from the river, or a fourth of a mile beyond the spot where Lewis was shot.
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