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But in spite of my hopes the summons came too soon, and I was obliged to go myself.
The Winnebagos, happy and hungry, gathered around the breakfast table in answer to the summons which Hinpoha had just sent echoing through the house.
I wish I had loved you better." She bathed her face and took off her cloth dress, putting on one of some light material Mrs. Barrington had given her awhile before. Then she went down stairs just as the summons for dinner sounded. Mrs. Barrington met her in the hall with a smile. "Did you have a nice day? And did your brother find you?" "Yes, I enjoyed it very much. And we walked back together.
But the world is evil, and Satan stands close at the ear of the young, both the poor and them of place and world's gear! So I doubt not that he eats the husks. I doubt not, either, that the Lord has a rod for him, as for us all, that will drive him, willy-nilly, home. So I'll say good day, sir. To-morrow I'll go again to the laird, and so every day until his summons comes."
Awake on your hills, on your islands awake, Brave sons of the mountain, the frith, and the lake! 'T is the bugle but not for the chase is the call; 'T is the pibroch's shrill summons but not to the hall.
Fortunately, as he deemed it, at that very instant he heard many steps rapidly approaching, and his own name called aloud by the voice of the king's body-squire. "Hark! Edward summons me," he said, with a feeling of reprieve. "Farewell, dear Sibyll, farewell for a brief while, we shall meet anon."
Hard by the town of Thorshavn, in the Faröe islands, a little lad sat one day carving his name on a rock. His rough-coated pony cropped the tufts of stunted grass within call. The grim North Sea beat upon the shore below. What thoughts of the great world without it stirred in the boy he never told. He came of a people to whom it called all through the ages with a summons that rarely went unheeded.
He did not move, though indeed if he had seized the reins from her hands, he could have given her no greater effect of surprise. Life came back into the eyes at the summons, and dominance into the voice, although he breathed heavily. "No, you're not," he said; "no, you're not. I'm going to Ripton do you understand? I'll be all right in a minute, and I'll take the lines."
It was shortly before mid-day when again there came a summons from Lady Ogram; obeying it, Constance took Lord Dymchurch's letter in her hand. Lady Ogram had risen. She was in the little drawing-room upstairs, reclining upon a sofa; the effort of walking thus far had exhausted her. "I hear that Mr. Lashmar has called this morning," she began, half raising herself, but at once sinking back again.
But although the peasants rejoiced, their leaders knew that the struggle could not long continue. The number of fighting men that is to say, of the whole male population of La Vendee capable of bearing arms had diminished terribly; indeed, the number that originally responded to the summons of the church bells was decreased by fully a half. Food was scarce.