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As if in answer to his questions, there was a patter of bare feet on the stairs and in came Luis, his great dark eyes looking twice their normal size and his voice shrill with excitement, as he tried to say: "Ned Ned's gone and got and got Ned's gone got gone roof. Oh, oh!" Mrs.
Up and down the street the endless patter of the feet of men and women, the wheeze of the little electrics and the blare of brassy music ebb and flow. Here and there is the dominant note of the Exposition, its pastel shades of burnt orange and red, and its indefinable blue. They flutter forth, hooped about the flagpoles with Oriental effect.
"Ah," the girl answered with a thrill in her voice, "whenever you come back you will find me ready to listen to you." Nasmyth let her hand go. "Now," he asserted, "I think I cannot fail. Still, it must be remembered that you are absolutely free." He would have said something more, but there was just then a laugh and a patter of feet on the path above, and, looking up, he saw two of Mrs.
The huge oval square was cobbled with heads, through which ran a broad road, kept by papal troops for the passage of the carriages; and up the broad ribbon, white in the eastern light, came monstrous vehicles, a blaze of gilding and colour and cream tint; slow cheers swelled up and died, and through all came the rush and patter of wheels over the stones, like the sound of a tide-swept pebbly beach.
Keeping to the turf, and favoured by the darkness of the night and the patter of the rain which was now returning, though without wind, I approached until I could almost have touched her. It seemed a grossness of which I was incapable to break up her reverie by speech.
We hear jibs rattling down; and glancing up hastily, I am surprised to find our vessel surrounded on all sides by the fleet, which has already become aware that we have got fish alongside. Meantime the wind rises, and the sea struggles against the rain, which is endeavoring with its steady patter to subdue the turmoil of old ocean. Thick beads of perspiration chase each other down our faces.
"After all, in these terrible time'," remarked Miss Valcour in committee of the whole last session before the public opening "any toil, even look' at selfishly, is better than to be idle." "As if you ever looked at anything selfishly!" said a matron, and there was a patter of hands. "Or as if she were ever in danger of being idle!" fondly put in a young battery sister.
There was a long pause, during which no sound was heard save the regular patter of the hoofs on the lawn-like turf as they swept easily out and in among the trees, over the undulations, and down into the hollows, or across the level plains. "Why is Moonlight glad?" asked the chief. "Because father and mother are there, and I love them both."
Yet here again I was disappointed, for no sooner was I come to the cross-ways by the black pool in the hole, but I heard through the patter of my own feet a rough low sound very close in the fog, as of a hobbled sheep a-coughing. I listened, and feared, and yet listened again, though I wanted not to hear it.
He heard the patter of a rain-shower on the window panes behind the lowered blinds, and below, far below, in the artificial abyss of the square, the deadened roll of wheels and the splashy trotting of a horse. He heard a groan also very distinct in the room close to his ear.
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