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Finally, as with a new idea, the mare started down the lane at a quick gallop, turned to the left, where a rivulet had been damned up into a little pond not more than two feet deep, and plunged into the water, splashing it up around her like a many jetted fountain.
I'll just order tea if you will excuse me. Ordering tea seemed to involve a good deal of splashing water. Maude came back with a merrier face. 'Is this a good paper, Mr. Harrison? 'What is it? Financial Whisper! No, the most venal rag in the city. 'Oh, I am so glad! 'Why? 'Well, you know, we bought some shares to-day, and it calls our mine a preposterous one. 'Oh, is that all.
"I saw no one with the monster; he was alone, breaking the waters and splashing them with his arms, his legs, or his fins. On the top, and it was very high, there was a square lodge. Once I thought I could see a man in it, but it was a fancy; or perhaps the soul of the thing, watching from its hiding-place for a prey which it might seize upon.
He seized hold of the golden lantern, ran away as fast as he could to his boat, and rowed across the water in safety. The giant sat for a long time wondering why his wife was away so long. At last he went to look for her, but nothing could he see of her. Then he heard a splashing in the well, and finding she was in the water, he, with a lot of work, got her out.
It was a right of youth that she had missed, but a woman may be quite as romantic at thirty-four as at eighteen, if she has sealed her fountain instead of splashing it dry when she was too young to know its preciousness. Once before she had surrendered to romance, fleetingly: during the week that followed the night she had sat on Calvary with Gathbroke and watched a sea of flames.
Next morning, however, he was lively enough as man-boat, a combination of splashing and shouting; of the insolent commotion below with the steady overbearing glare of the silent head-piece above. He turned us out most unnecessarily at an ungodly hour, but it was nearly eleven in the morning before he brought me up a cable's length from Hermann's ship.
"But, Peggy, what could we do?" cried Amy, setting down her glass of milk with an emphasis that sent part of its contents splashing over the brim. "None of us sing any to speak of, except Priscilla, and she and Claire are the only ones who play. I don't see " "Well, I've been wondering why we couldn't repeat that little farce we gave at school last June.
"You lie!" said Gangnet. "I wish Maskull nothing but good." "At all events, he will be the cause of your death. But what does it matter? The great point is you are quitting this futile world.... Well, Gangnet, I see you're as slack as ever. I suppose I must do the work." He jumped into the lake and began to run through the shallow water, splashing it about.
And fell back swooning, with an old man's tear splashing down as if to revivify her. The heart has a resiliency. Strained to breaking, it can contract again. Even the waiting women, Iseult and Penelope, learned, as they sat sorrowing and watching, to sing to the swing of the sea. When, out of the slough of dark weeks, Mrs.
There was frequent splashing in the lagoon near by at times Perk could tell it must be caused by jumping mullet, but on other occasions the sound being many times exaggerated, he reckoned it had been made by an alligator plunging off a log into the water, either alarmed by some sound further off, or else possessed of a desire to enter a secret underwater den he laid claim to.
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