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The miracle is ended, for the starling has begun its job; and the sun is fretting those dark, busy wings with gold. Full day has come again. But the face of it is a little strange, it is not like yesterday. Queer-to think, no day is like to a day that's past and no night like a night that's coming! Why, then, fear death, which is but night? Why care, if next day have different face and spirit?
Everything seems young too young to work. There is but one thing busy, a starling, fetching grubs for its little family, above my head it must take that flight at least two hundred times a day. The children should be very fat.
Then presently, with a scarce perceptible glance up at her daughter, she added, "Where have you been?" "To church, mother." "To church!" scornfully. "What did you do there?" "She heard preaching," said the minister, in that very quiet and composed way of his, which it was difficult to fight against. Few people ever tried; if any one could, it was Mrs. Starling.
He turned to the desk and began to write with a deliberation all the more terrible to her because of the white anger he felt. And still she stood. He pressed the button on his desk, and Starling responded. "I want a man from the stable to be ready to take some letters to town in half an hour," he said. It was not until then that she turned and slowly left the room.
At last accounts terrified elders and bishops were decamping to save their necks; and developments of the most starling character were being made, implicating the highest Church dignitaries in the many murders and robberies committed upon the Gentiles during the past eight years."
Nor were they even seen to shake the wet off a common action in swallows and other birds that feed in the rain; they were too hungry, too anxious to find something to eat to keep the starling soul and body together before the long night of eighteen or twenty hours would overtake them.
At this moment the starling called, in a clear, inviting tone, "Olympias!" and this cheered him, reminding him of the happy hour he had passed at his wife's grave and the good augury he had had there.
The gem-cutter was not to be allowed to see his children till the leech should give leave, and the unfortunate man could not get over his surprise and emotion at finding in his new home not only a work-table, with tools, wax, and stones, but several cages full of birds, and among these feathered friends a starling.
"We are going to eat them with your leave ma'am, and by your help; and first we are going to cook them." "Who?" "Miss Starling and myself. I have promised to show her a thing. May I ask for the loan of a match?" "A match!" echoed Mrs. Starling. "Or two," added Mr. Knowlton, with an indescribable twinkle in his eye; indescribable because there was nothing contrary to good breeding in it.
"It does not matter since when. Whatever I have ever felt for other people, there is only one person in the world that I care for now; and that is, my husband." "You'd better tell him so," sneered Mrs. Starling. "When do you expect your butter is going to come, if you stand there?" "The butter is come," said Diana gently.
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