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Knowing the value of seconds, he began moving along the hall toward the door, which was only a few paces distant, and had passed half the space when a muttered execration escaped him, for his foot struck some object that was kicked the remaining length of the hall with a clatter that he verily believed must have been heard by his friends on the boat. No use now for precaution.
He passed her not ten feet away, so close that she made out the vague lines of his big body. A few paces farther he stopped. "I see you, girl. You ain't foolin' me any. Tell you what I'll do. You come right along back to the buckboard an' I'll let you off the lickin' this time." She trembled, violently. It seemed that he did see her, for he moved a step or two in her direction.
At a signal from the old hunter I imitated him by slipping off my snowshoes, and standing them upon end in the snow, and Oo-koo-hoo leading the way, began to circle to our right as a gentle wind was coming on our left. Now our progress was indeed slow, and also perfectly noiseless. It seemed to take an age to make a semicircle of a couple of hundred paces.
On several occasions I have unwittingly set my box within a few paces of a bee-tree and waited long for bees without getting them, when, on removing to a distant field or opening in the woods I have got a clew at once. I have a theory that when bees leave the hive, unless there is some special attraction in some other direction, they generally go against the wind.
Adair pounded away at one end with brief intervals between the attacks. Mr. Downing took a couple more overs, in one of which a horse, passing in the road, nearly had its useful life cut suddenly short. Change-bowlers of various actions and paces, each weirder and more futile than the last, tried their luck. But still the first-wicket stand continued.
"I ain't ever questioned her right, Hanson" Flick used his name for the first time "and I'm standing here to prove it now. For the sake of Miss Gallito, because she once took notice of you, I'm going to treat you like you was a gentleman. Here's your gun. Take your twenty paces. And, remember, this ain't to wound, it's to kill." Hanson took the pistol and measured off the paces.
After walking a few paces only, she suddenly stood still. Mr. Rayburn heard her talking to herself. "Did I feel it again?" she said, as if perplexed by some doubt that awed or grieved her. After a while her arms rose slowly, and opened with a gentle caressing action an embrace strangely offered to the empty air! "No," she said to herself, sadly, after waiting a moment.
As if to prove she was a witch, she paused before the very cottage which once already to-night had given pause to his steps and to his thoughts. The fog had been thinning little by little as they mounted the hill, and at a few paces' distance he recognized the closed door, daubed over with that same staring paint which your true Islander uses for choice upon his boat.
Cameron took the hammer. "This is the right thing. The weight of it will make more difference to me, however, than to you, Mack." "Oh, I'm not so sure," said Mack. "Show us how you do it." The first throw Cameron took easily. "Twenty-nine paces!" cried Mack, after stepping it off. "Man! that's a great throw, and you do it easy." "Not much of a throw," laughed Cameron. "Try it yourself."
Markland is at home, I presume," said the visitor, in a respectful manner, as he paused a few paces distant from Fanny, and observed, with some surprise, the agitation his appearance had occasioned. "She is. Will you walk in, sir?" The voice of Fanny trembled, though she strove hard to speak calmly and with apparent self-possession. "My name is Mr. Willet." "Oh! our new neighbour."
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