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Sensitive, and in a measure proudly reserved, he took more and more to the moors and the hills. All day sometimes he roved over them, and at other times he would lie motionless but happy, for the moor always understood. If he were hurt at anything which happened, the moor brought him solace; if he grieved, it gave him relief; and if he were happy, it too rejoiced.
It was plain that the pad-elephant meant to stick to his new friends and follow them wherever they roved. The Panthay slipped down the right flank of the elephant and dropped to his feet like a cat. Jack was wretchedly stiff, but he also climbed over the side of the carriage which had been his prison, and let himself slide over the elephant's tail.
"Ah! then I missed making your acquaintance," I said, kindly, pitying the poor old fellow, as I noticed how his lips trembled, and how altogether broken he looked. "You knew the last count from childhood, then?" "I did, eccellenza!" And his bleared eyes roved over me with a sort of alarmed inquiry. "You loved him well?" I said, composedly, observing him with embarrassment.
As the catamaran sped along Leslie's keen glance roved anxiously over the various parts of the camp as they opened out, and he presently saw that his savage visitors had been busy with the varied items of the cargo that he had saved from the brig and stored under canvas, for the canvas cover was folded back, and boxes and bales were strewed here and there upon the sward.
He has been trying to suck him dry, and has had two interviews with him. I told you to send him to Deans Folly. Bridgers would have taken care of him." "Bridgers can look after nothing," said Milsom. His eyes roved along the benches and stopped at a worker at the farther end of the room. "He's quiet to-night," he said, "that fellow is too full of himself for my liking.
That she was beautiful and intelligent could not be denied, and so it was small wonder that she might appeal strongly to any man, but von Horn was quite evidently not of the marrying type. For years he had roved the world in search of adventure and excitement.
"Is it the one with 'Roll on, Silver Moon, and 'Wild roved the Indian maid, bright What's-her-name'?" "Bright Alfarata. Same one, exactly. Bring up another chair, and we'll go through a whole programme of classics pruggrum, I mean." "Let's see, though," said Jane, looking at her watch. "Mercy me! where has the morning gone? It's after eleven o'clock."
And almost every night of this wonderful time the dream-child called his mother, and we roved the gray shore in quest of him. In the day she was herself; but, when the night fell, she was restless and uneasy until she heard the call. Then follow it she would, even through storm and darkness.
These and a dozen other mental comments that roved through people's brains, while they were supposed to be joining in the hymn of praise, were suddenly cut short by the sound of Dr. Dennis' voice again not in benediction, as surely they had a right to expect by this time, but with another appeal.
While sitting attendance on the epilogue Mr. Vane had nothing to distract him from the congregation but a sanguinary sermon in five heads, so his eyes roved over the pews, and presently he became aware of a familiar face watching him closely. The gentleman to whom it belonged finding himself recognized left his seat, and a minute later Sir Charles Pomander entered Mr. Vane's box.
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