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Loftus turned to resume his argument with Catherine, Mabel's gay voice echoed more faintly as she ran on. Suddenly it stopped. Patter, patter, came back the swift feet, and, trembling and shivering, she threw herself into Loftus's arms. "I heard something there's something in the avenue!" The moon was shining, and showed Mabel's face as white as a sheet.
At intervals, clumps of eucalyptus-trees banded together or drew out in long, thin, soldier-like lines. Presently it began to rain. There was no preliminary patter, but the storm broke suddenly, hurling great gray drops of moisture against the windows. Claire withdrew from any further attempt to watch the whirling landscape.
We stayed six weeks amid the lovely scenery and in the cooler air of Penang Hill, and returned to Sarawak in May, Admiral Austin giving us a passage in H.M.S. Fury. The admiral gave me his cabin to sleep in, all the gentlemen sleeping in the cuddy. I woke in the night, hearing a rushing sound in the air, then, patter, patter, all over the bed.
The drive was unspeakably wearisome; but after a while I suppose that the monotonous rumbling of the wheels and the incessant patter of the rain against the window-panes lulled me into a kind of torpor. Certain it is that presently much sooner than I had anticipated the chaise drew up with a jerk, and I was roused to full consciousness by hearing M. Berty's voice saying curtly: "Here we are!
"He is entering what is to him a new world, full of mysteries, and that caution which in this world has made him so successful " With an exclamation, Hallowell cut short the patter of the showman. "Yes, yes," he interrupted petulantly; "I tell you, I want to believe. Convince me." Considering the situation with pursed lips and thoughtful eyes, Vera gazed at the old man, frowning.
He was in no mood to talk with any one else. Even Miss Eulie's gentle patter of words would fall with a sting of pain. When Annie came down to the parlor she said, "Now, Mr. Gregory, I will sing as much as you wish, to make up for last evening. Indeed I must do something to get through the hours till father's return, for I feel so anxious and self-reproachful about him."
Then he took to the road for three years and traveled from Quebec to New Orleans lecturing on chemistry under the name of "Dr. Coult." The main feature of his lecture was the administration of nitrous oxide gas to volunteers from the audience, whose antics and the amusing showman's patter made the entertainment very popular.
He sat long before his prayers were heeded, but at last could hear the rain patter on the dry sides of the tepee and he knew that the Thunder Bird had broken through the air to let the rain fall.
Caught too, Mary's hurried rejoinder "For mercy's sake, Mrs. Cooper, not a hint of that to any living soul" before the two women, sensible of the swish and patter of her self-important entry, turned and moved forward to meet, or could it be? to intercept her. Their faces bore a singular expression, in Mrs. Cooper's case of sloppy, in Mary's of stern yet vivid alarm.
Well, what do you think?" He turned partly from me and began to whistle. I heard the patter of feet, the panting of a heated animal, and the unmistakable yelp of a dog. Then Paul stooped down and apparently fondled the empty air. "Here! Give me your fist." And he rubbed my hand over the cold nose and jowls of a dog. A dog it certainly was, with the shape and the smooth, short coat of a pointer.
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