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The land was green, the wild duck's quack was heard among the reeds which edged the river bank, while flocks of geese were feeding on the grass which grows thickly upon the tidal flats, the flats the Indians call Kwi-chuc-a-nit. Upon the eastern bank the young men saw a wondrous house, which far surpassed their father's lodge at home beyond the hills in Rainy Bay, in size of beams and boards.
Brown, "for I bought some only yesterday." Mrs. Preston quickly told what she wanted. "I've come for your two children, Mrs. Brown," she said. "I know how hard it is to keep them cooped up and amused on a rainy day. "Now over at our house we have a lovely big attic, filled with all sorts of old-fashioned things that the children of our neighbors play with.
"I'll go no more a-roving with you, fair maid." The old band of never-strikes were outward bound on another foray. The natives were kindly, as a rule, to the French and English, but it was now the rainy season, when they liked to stay in their huts, about their fires. The pirates "had in a Manner awed the Indian guides they took ... and made them go with them very much against their Wills."
I have known a strong fresh in the Ribble in the morning, and the river low again in the afternoon of the same day. A fresh coming at the beginning of a week, would disappear long before the close of it, unless the rainy weather continued; and thus the strict observance of the weekly close time would be of little service to the upper proprietors unless the fresh came at the right end of the week.
It was under the little gallery, opposite the Morels'. When Paul and his mother came in the chapel the Leivers's pew was always empty. He was anxious for fear she would not come: it was so far, and there were so many rainy Sundays. Then, often very late indeed, she came in, with her long stride, her head bowed, her face hidden under her bat of dark green velvet.
"Come to the tea-table, and we'll have afternoon tea together. It's the day of all others for afternoon tea." "I just said it was a glorious day." "Oh? yes. It's a nice day. But it's dark and cold and rainy all the same." "But that makes it all the better. We shan't be interrupted."
It was a rainy, cheerless evening; the first contest of the Boats week had been rowed in cold wind and sheet; a dreary blast whistled through the college. Suddenly Langham reached out his hand for an open letter. 'I have had an offer, Elsmere, he said, abruptly. And he put it into his hand.
He now sets himself to prepare new furniture; he will construct a small portable table, two wooden seats, one for himself, the other for Marimonda, when she comes from her grotto to visit his cabin; for he has now a neighborhood. Besides, during the rainy season, they will be forced to dine under cover.
Another rainy day, and so excessively cold that we were obliged to walk to keep ourselves at all warm; we spent a miserable time, splashing through the wet underwood, and at fifteen miles we passed a fresh water lake, in a valley between some hills.
And, from these innocent, little inns, they retire early especially in these bad, rainy nights the darkness of which is so peculiarly propitious to smuggling, every one here having to do some clandestine thing on the Spanish side.
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