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In a cold sweat of fear I crouched there, for it had become evident to me that, as I bent, I was entirely in shadow. There was a rustling in the bushes on the left; but before I could turn in that direction, my attention was claimed elsewhere. Over into the loggia leapt an almost naked brown figure!
After we had kissed and decided not to tell our parents for awhile of the irrevocable choice we had made, the time came for us to part, shyly and before others, and I and my mother went off back across the moonlit park the bracken thickets rustling with startled deer to the railway station at Checkshill and so to our dingy basement in Clayton, and I saw no more of Nettie except that I saw her in my thoughts for nearly a year.
It was Charmian's, reduced to a sort of intense whisper. It said: "Alice! Alice! I specially told you not to make a sound in the house. Your master is at work. The least noise disturbs him. Pray be quiet. If you must speak, go downstairs." There was silence, then the sound of rustling, of a door shutting, then again silence. Claude came away from the fire. "Your master is at work."
"Better leave a little note for him, telling him where we are. He might turn up." "I will," said Carrie, who had not thought of it before. "Tell him we'll be at Sherry's until eight o'clock. He knows, though I guess." Carrie crossed the hall with rustling skirts, and scrawled the note, gloves on. When she returned a newcomer was in the Vance flat. "Mrs. Wheeler, let me introduce Mr.
Crawl along, b'ys; crawl along. Fire together, mind; and not till I say the word." We crept up to the very edge of the open ground, and knelt behind a clump of bushes; resting our levelled barrels among the branches. The slight rustling was heard. Taurus turned round, dropped his head to the ground, and sent forth a low, sullen bellow; then snuffed the air.
I see, in a way, those spirits of the dead again, on this my last walk, that I saw when I first walked here!" "What a curious chap you are!" "I seem to see them, and almost hear them rustling. But I don't revere all of them as I did then. I don't believe in half of them. The theologians, the apologists, and their kin the metaphysicians, the high-handed statesmen, and others, no longer interest me.
He drew himself a little closer beneath the projecting attap roof, which extended three or four feet over the sides of the hut, and then felt startled, for suddenly there fell upon his ears, evidently coming from somewhere inland, a rustling sound of footsteps, accompanied by the hard breathing of some one suffering from over-exertion. "Boat coming ashore!
At this moment a slight rustling was heard at the other end of the apartment, and the knight turning, beheld a man having the appearance of a servant advancing. "How now, sirrah," cried Winthrop, "what means this intrusion?" "I thought I heard the Governor call," said the man. "I called not," said Winthrop; "but being here, bring refreshments.
Auntie Nan hopped upstairs in her rustling dress, relieved and glad in the sweet selfishness of her love to get rid of Pete and have Philip to herself. Pete went off whistling in the darkness, with the dog driving ahead of him. "I'm to blame, though," he thought. "Should have gone home directly." The town was now quiet, the streets were deserted, and Pete began to run. "She'd be alone, too.
This deer, like some antelopes, is of a "curious" disposition, and will sometimes allow the hunter to approach in full view without attempting to run off. But the slightest noise, such as the rustling of dry leaves, or the snapping of a stick, will alarm him. His sense of hearing is extremely acute.
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