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Tilda, running to the doorway, saw the animal leap, but in so quick a flash that she noted nothing but its size, and mistook it for a riderless, runaway horse.
You mightn't have known it in your sleep, 'Tilda, but I haven't closed my eyes for a single wink, and so I THINK I am to be believed.
And Tilda Tattle, the tiresome-tongued, town tale-bearer, could not abide the cat, because it mewed all the time she was tattling. And so it happened that good Deacon Pettibone, and his wife, who was even better than the deacon, were about the only visitors the wee, weird Widow Wiggins had.
Mother says it comes of muzzing my head with books, and then putting two and two together and making 'em five. . . . It's fanciful, of course" here Chrissy sighed "things don't happen like that in real life. . . . But there's always been stories about Sir Miles; and when I saw the mark it is queer, now " But Tilda kept a steady face, her eyes fixed on the escutcheon.
Of a sudden, while they sang and while the children gazed, the fog to northward heaved and parted, pierced by a shaft of the sinking sun, and there in a clear hollow lay land lay an Island vignetted in the fog, with the light on its cliffs and green slopes an Island, resting like a shield on the milky sea. "Look!" Arthur Miles clutched Tilda by the arm and pointed.
As yet Tilda could not know that the old man had been married twice, that these stalwart youths and maidens were his offspring by two mothers. Indeed, they might all have been his, and of one womb, so frankly and so gently spoken they were one to another. Only the shepherd kept scolding all the while, and with vigour, using his brief authority which no one not even his master attempted to dispute.
"And if, when you go back to the van and tell the Mortimers, you should leave the door open for a minute, forgetful-like, why that's no affair o' mine." "I'm a'most certain to forget," owned Tilda. "If you'd been brought up half yer time in a tent " "To be sure. Now attend to this.
A boat going downwards through a lock would want a lock full, all but the water it pushes out from the room it takes up. Wouldn't it?" "I s'pose so," said Tilda doubtfully. "But a boat going up will want a lock full, and that water too. And that's why an empty boat going downhill takes more water than a loaded one, and less going up." To Tilda the puzzle remained a puzzle.
After that he got better, an' they ended up by playin' a thing that made everybody laugh. I didn' 'ear it, but took a walk outside to blow off steam, an' only came back just as the fuss began about the carriages. Fact is, missy, I can't abear to see a woman used abuseful." "That's because you 're in love," said Tilda. "But, if you'll listen to me, women ain't always what you take 'em for."
The distance from nearest point of coast is three and three-quarter miles. Reputed to have served anciently as rendezvous for British pirates, and even in the last century as a smugglers' entrepot. Geological formation " "Is that all?" asked Tilda as the old man ceased his reading. "That is all." "But the river will take us to it," said the boy confidently. "Hey? What river?"
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