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No more roulades and ringing chords from the piano no more clear spirited tones of the lady's voice sounded through the low ceilings of Redman's Farm, and thrilled with a haunting melody the deserted glen, wherein the birds had ended their vesper songs and gone to rest.
I should obliterate my past self altogether; but men are so different, so audacious some men, at least and Stanley, ever since his ill-omened arrival at Redman's Farm, last autumn, has amazed and terrified me.
And, with his lip in his finger and thumb, he conned over those remainders and reversions with a skilled and rapid eye. Rachel Lake was glad to see the slender and slightly-stooped figure of the vicar standing that morning his bright little boy by the hand in the wicket of the tiny flower-garden of Redman's Farm. She went out quickly to greet him.
In the buffalo dance, then, you perceive the redman's fine knowledge of color relations, of the harmonizing of buffalo skins, of white buckskins painted with most expressively simple designs symbolizing the various earth identities, and the accompanying ornamentation of strings of shells and other odd bits having a black or a grey and white lustre.
It was a sunny day, and the air still; and the open heath contrasted pleasantly with the sombre and confined scenery of Redman's Dell; and altogether Rachel was glad now that she had made the effort, and come with her cousin. 'It was good of you to come, Rachel, said Miss Brandon; 'and you look tired; but you sha'n't speak more than you like; and I'll tell you all the news.
Much to-ing and fro-ing there was between the town and Redman's Farm, the respectable inhabitants all sending or going up to enquire how the captain was doing. At last Doctor Buddle officially interfered. The constant bustle was injurious to his patient. An hourly bulletin up to twelve o'clock should be in the hall of the 'Brandon Arms; and Redman's Dell grew quiet once more.
The cart-road leading down to Redman's Dell, and passing the mills near Redman's Farm, diverges from the footpath with which we are so well acquainted, near that perpendicular block of stone which stands a little above the steps which the footpath here descends.
'Combined, says he directly, 'with the interesting little physiological shake-up known as reversion to type. I remember now. Have they gone yet? "'On the 7:30 train, I answers. "'Ugh! says John Tom; 'better so. Paleface, bring big Chief Wish-Heap-Dough a little bromo-seltzer, and then he'll take up the redman's burden again." "But can thim that helps others help thimselves!" Mulvaney.
An hour after Captain Stanley Brandon Lake, whose 'election address' was figuring that evening in the 'Dollington Courier, and in the 'County Chronicle, lay with his clothes still on, in the little drawing-room of Redman's Farm, his injuries ascertained, his thigh broken near the hip, and his spine fractured. No hope no possibility of a physical reascension, this time.
The sun just touched the verge of the wooded uplands, as the young people began to descend the slope of Redman's Dell. 'How very short! Lord Chelford paused, with a smile, at these words.
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