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"I left this quick-eared predestinarian, and rode up to Basili, his Christian compatriot, whose ears, though not at all prophetic, by no means relished the intelligence.
She rose presently, quick-eared to wait the call, and went to her desk in the window. Then she wrote a letter to her father-in-law, and pictured his ministering at that moment to his church. Her inclination was to soften the blow, yet she knew that could only be a cruel kindness. She told him, therefore, that his son must die. Then she remembered that he was so near.
As on former occasions, the quick-eared comrade had overheard the King's command and repeated it to the Simpleton. 'Alas, alas! he groaned; 'now I am quite done for. 'Have you quite forgotten me? In the meantime the courtier, who had run all the way from the palace, reached the ship panting and breathless, and delivered the King's message. 'Good! remarked the Simpleton.
But their churchyard is full of drowned folk. There are one hundred and four in one grave, one hundred and twenty in another, one hundred and six in a third. An old St. Keverne man will slowly name thirty ships and steamers wrecked in sight of the church steeple in the range of his memory. A quick-eared coastguard heard the sound of the escape of steam, which was almost instantly silenced.
Acota perceived it, and approaching him softly, laid his cloak over him, and taking up his mandolin, struck a chord which he knew would not be lost upon the quick-eared mutes, although not so loud as to awake Mezrimbi.
It miscarried only after we had righted the boat and were dragging it across the strip of shingle between the meadow bank and the water's edge. A quick-eared sentry caught the sound and challenged at two gunshots' distance. I had the boat's nose afloat as I heard his feet stumbling over the uneven foreshore: but the paddles and even the bottom-boards were lying on the beach behind us.
It was the quick-eared Nick who spoke, just as the hum of conversation began, and all listened. As they did so the rattle of wheels was heard coming from the direction of Dunbarton. The peculiar noise enabled the friends to recognize it as made by a heavy, lumbering farmer's wagon. The team was proceeding on a walk. A few minutes later some one shouted: "Halloo, there! what's the matter?"
Ashmead was more remarkable. He started up from his chair with an exclamation, and bent his eyes eagerly on the melodious speaker. He could only see her back hair and her figure; but, apparently, this quick-eared gentleman had also quick eyes, for he said aloud, in English, "Her hair, too it must be;" and he came hurriedly toward her. She caught a word or two, and turned and saw him.
It was not a time nor a place for argument, and in token of agreement with him I took up the lead. I did not attempt to go forward rapidly; but, half-lying upon the ground, I crept onward inch by inch, removing carefully with my hands every twig or dry leaf which might be in the path, lest by the lightest rustling of the branches I give warning to the quick-eared enemy of our approach.
A quick-eared grinder soon came up to them, and said roughly, "Ain't we to wet new forge?" "They want their drink out of you," said the foreman; and whispered, in great anxiety, "Don't say no, or you might as well work in a wasp's nest as here." "All right," said Henry, cheerfully. "I'm no drinker myself, but I'll stand what is customary." "That is right," said Foreman Bayne.
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