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"Oh, very well," said Hortense. "It would be more polite to make Andy It," said Owl. "Always be polite to ladies." "I'll choose between Andy and me," said Hortense. "Eeny, meeny, mona, my Barcelona bona sky, Care well, Broken well, We wo wack. "I'm It. I'll count to a hundred, and the newel post in the hall will be goal." There was a hurrying and scurrying while Hortense hid her face.
Terrors got hold of her again, and scurrying past shops and turning white whenever a man drew nigh, she fetched an immense compass before reaching Montmartre. On the morrow, while still suffering from the shock of last night's terrors, Nana went to her aunt's and at the foot of a small empty street in the Batignolles found herself face to face with Labordette.
He set out for solitary walks into the country. There was a little stream, with pollards on both sides of it, that ran through green fields, and it made him happy, he knew not why, to wander along its banks. When he was tired he lay face-downward on the grass and watched the eager scurrying of minnows and of tadpoles. It gave him a peculiar satisfaction to saunter round the precincts.
A honey-badger came timorously creeping, his feet shuffling the fallen leaves, peered at the strange figures of the men, and, at the move of an arm, fled scurrying through the stillness with the noise of some great creature. Suddenly the jungle was stilled, even from the voice of the rasping cicadae; the leaves had ceased to whisper, for the wind had hushed.
So far, we have done nothing but increase our scurrying a thousand-fold." He tried to make a joke of the matter. "You sound like a beatnik." "Perhaps," she answered slowly, still looking up at the screen. "They considered my father beat dead-beat. But I know more of this science than you do, Jack Odin. What if I told you there was little chance of finding Maya.
He made no sound after that first cry that had broken from his lips, but stood looking into the crackling flames of the fire until a sudden lash of the wind whipped the note from between his fingers and sent it scurrying away in a white volley of fine snow. The loss of the note awoke him to action. He started to pursue the bit of paper, then stopped and laughed.
The "Yankee's" crew were at regular quarters at the time, but a hurried order to dismiss and clear ship for action sent the different guns' crews scurrying to their stations. To add to the interest, word came from the bridge to train the guns aft and to do everything possible to disguise the cruiser. "We are to masquerade as a blooming merchantman," chuckled "Dye."
She had not dared to waken him or speak to him, but coming home, had made up her mind to run away and not work for the mean old man any more. To this the sister agreed, and at daybreak they were scurrying off through the forest. All day they traveled and when night came they were still in the wilds far from any Indian camp. Worn out, they lay down under a great pine and looked up at the stars.
"Look at them scurrying! It's burning! Just see the smoke! Fine! Grand! Look at the smoke, the smoke!" exclaimed the artillerymen, brightening up. All the guns, without waiting for orders, were being fired in the direction of the conflagration. As if urging each other on, the soldiers cried at each shot: "Fine! That's good! Look at it... Grand!"
Then, as the place of meeting was emptied, a breeze of cold air rushed into the vacant space; there was hurrying and scurrying of those who remained last, as they ran to take their places, and while a burst of march music was heard in the distance at the head of the column, the last stragglers fell into the file behind, the last torch disappeared into the narrow street, and the broad space that had been so full was left utterly deserted, illuminated only by a dozen dim gaslights in exchange for the lurid glow which a moment earlier had lit up every wall and house from corner stone to pointed gable.
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