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Without a word of parting to his human companion with the dog moving sedately by his side, he disappeared into the darkness of the night. All the next day, Aaron King in the hotel dining-room, the lobby, and on the veranda watched for the famous novelist.
At this sudden intrusion into their domain, a brood of chickens, who had been clucking sedately around, and picking up nourishment at the same time, scattered screaming in every direction, heads down, feet sprawling, until by unanimous consent they made a beeline for a half-open door, leading to the orchard.
The buckskin pony Hazel had bought for the trip in with Limping George ambled sedately under a pack containing bedding, clothes, and a light shelter tent. The black horse, Nigger, he of the cocked ear and the rolling eye, carried in a pair of kyaks six weeks' supply of food. Bill led the way, seconded by Hazel on easy-gaited Silk.
She wore it as if born to it; and with an air more sedately courteous than he had ever seen, save at one house in Park Lane. Had this rustle of fine trappings been made for him? No; the woman had a mind above such snobbishness, he thought. He suffered for a moment the pang of a cynical idea; but the eyes of Mrs. Malbrouck were on him and he knew that he was as nothing before her.
Beyond the serrated edges of the woodlands covering far-away hills were masses of sunlit rolling clouds that seemed as if they were utterly immovable and piled up as a background to the purpling beauty of the mountains. Madge awoke early. Outside the house the dogs were stirring, the two young ones chasing one another over the snow and rolling over it while the others nosed about more sedately.
Here surely was no Angel wanderer from unseen spheres! ... only a girl, clad in floating gray draperies that clung softly to her slim figure, and trailed behind her as she moved sedately along through the snow-white blossoms that bent beneath her noiseless tread.
The redish buckwheat patches, and fine wood tints of the fields where other grain had been; the bright green of young rye or winter wheat, then soberer coloured pasture or meadow lands, and ever and anon a tuft of gay woods crowning a rising ground, or a knot of the everlasting pines looking sedately and steadfastly upon the fleeting glories of the world around them, these were mingled and interchanged and succeeded each other in ever-varying fresh combinations.
Two women in the charge of a yellow lama trotted sedately along, their quaint headdresses flapping as they rode.
"No, I haf not found it. I haf never been in this wood till now," said the princess. "You haven't been in this wood! But it's the home wood the jolliest part of the estate," cried the Terror in the liveliest surprise. "And there are two paths straight into it from the gardens." "But I stay always in the gardens," said the princess sedately.
And still, before the summer was gone, the garden sedately, yet very sweetly, smiled again and even the visitors ventured back. That was nearly three years ago. Only a few weeks since those two were in the company of an accomplished man who by some chance being a Frenchman had met and talked with this mother and her husband. "We made a sad bungle there," said the visitors.
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