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"Close by on the sand-hill beyond the city wall." "Where you can see the fires lit at night and hear the sound of the music of Africa?" "Yes." "As he said." "Yes, as he said." Again the overwhelming sense of some strange and formidable approach came over her, but this time she fought it resolutely. "Will you come and see me?" she said. She had meant to say "us," but did not say it.

He and the prince were standing on the starboard side of the boat; it was this side that had faced the island when the young man had gazed down upon the yacht from the big sand-hill, and fancied he had seen "What am I going to do with you?" The prince seemed more out of temper now.

Then the two barrels of water were carried up, together with a bag of biscuits and a bottle of rum from the locker, where a supply was always kept in case of an emergency like the present. They went on beyond the brow of the sand-hill, and ensconced themselves in a hollow at its foot, where they were completely sheltered from the wind.

Hill took them over the line a dreary waste of slashings, then a wide expanse of prairie broken now and again by scrub-oak and hazel-groves; deep gullies here and there swamps, sloughs and ponds, with assets of brant, wild geese, ducks and sand-hill cranes. The road was in bad shape the equipment worse. An inventory of the actual property was taken with the help of the Dutch Committee.

"My children," he began, and the men uncovered their heads, "my children, we are going to be disgraced this day, and the best we can do is to pray that we may take it like men. Let us pray." He knelt down on the great sand-hill, and the men and women around dropped on their knees also. And then St. Piran put up the prayer that has made his name famous all the world over.

"The land all about here," said Cecil, "is so devastated, that where the open country was wont to be covered with kine and sheep, it is now fuller of wild boars and wolves; whereof many come so nigh the town that the sentinels three of whom watch every night upon a sand-hill outside the gates have had them in a dark night upon them ere they were aware."

As long as she remained, she declares that we two should have continued to quarrel; and I suppose that she was right, for when she was gone we fell at once into a sort of confidentiality. Northmour stared after her as she went away over the sand-hill. "She is the only woman in the world!" he exclaimed, with an oath. "Look at her action."

There are numbers of the sand-hill cranes feeding in the meadows: we caught a young one of the same color as the red deer, which, though it had nearly attained its full growth, could not fly; it is very fierce, and strikes a severe blow with its beak. . . .

Meanwhile, the persecuted Christians made off under the escort of the Kel-owi, and the whole caravan was once more collected together. On the 4th of September they encamped on the summit of a sand-hill, in a broad valley, near the village of Tintellust, the residence of the chief Amur, under whose protection they were now to proceed.

As long as she remained, she declares that we two would have continued to quarrel; and I suppose that she was right, for when she was gone we fell at once into a sort of confidentiality. Northmour stared after her as she went away over the sand-hill "She is the only woman in the world!" he exclaimed with an oath. "Look at her action."