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How often in the months gone by had she called up the memory of the photograph she had once seen, only to doubt the more that she should ever behold that house and these trees with him by her side! They drew up before the door, and a venerable, ruddy-faced butler stood gravely on the steps to welcome them. Hugh leaped out. He was still the schoolboy. "Starling," he said, "this is Mrs. Chiltern."
Again, I have often seen a group of three, five, seven or nine birds on the field, and after a while a solitary starling from a neighbouring field or from some treetop near by has flown down to join the group and make the numbers even.
Many other species are occasionally addicted to the same practice, though such acts are apparently accidental rather than deliberate, so far as parasitical intent is concerned. The lapse is especially noticeable among such birds as build in hollow trees and boxes, as the woodpeckers and wagtails. Thus the English starling will occasionally impose upon and dispossess the green woodpecker.
"A shell came, sir, and hit our waggon. My traces were broke, and I'm going back to the waggon line, sir." "Where is B Battery?" "Up this road, sir, and I think you take a turning on the left, but I can't quite remember, sir; we had a bit of a mix-up." "Bring up the waggons," I told the orderly. "We're on the right road. If Sergeant Starling isn't back, leave some one behind to bring him along."
And there you are!" He smiled benignly on us. I longed to hug him. The March wind swooped and whistled down the alley, and the starling gave little sharp twittering noises and cocked his head. "When, oh when " we burst out "tonight? May we search for it tonight, Captain Pegg?" He reflected. "No-o. Not tonight.
Starling found no fault with Diana, other than by this bitter manner of handling every subject that came up; at the same time she made the little house where they lived together a place of thunderous atmosphere, where it was impossible to draw breath freely and peacefully. They were very much shut up to one another, too.
"You never burnt all the ashes there is there since yesterday morning. You'd have had to sit up all night to do it; and burn a good lot o' wood on your fire, too." "Mother," exclaimed Diana in desperation, "I don't suppose everything is just as it would be if you'd been round all these days." "I guess it ain't," said Mrs. Starling. "There's where you are wanting, Diana.
It greatly delighted the bird to find himself on turf. There had been rain. The grass was wet. Presently a rash worm, gliding from its hole, adventured forth. The starling ran to the worm, calling it 'Hugh. 'Hugh! Hugh! he cried, and tugged it from the earth. 'Hugh! Hugh! and pecked it, where helpless it lay squirming. Then, shouting 'Hugh! once more, gobbled it down.
"But I s'pose you've got a kind word for every one, ha'n't you, Miss Starling?" "Diany," said the voice of Joe Bartlett, who was pushing his way towards her through the bushes, "Diany! Here you be! Here's your mother lookin' for ye. Got all you want? It's gettin' time to make tracks for hum. The sun's consid'able low." "I'm ready, Joe."
I hated the farce of the whole affair, and when I ran my eye over Cadillac's message, which I could forecast word for word, I felt like a play-acting fool. But I read it and put it in my pocket. "You have had a long trip, Lord Starling," I said, with some show of courtesy. "It is new to see a man of your nation in this land!" He waved me and my words into limbo.
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