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"Wilt thou humiliate him with thy notice, meddler?" she demanded in a fierce whisper. "See him not, and it will be a mercy to him in his hour of abasement, him who hath been balsam to the wound of Israel!" She turned about and took the road toward Pa-Ramesu, the unprotesting old man trotting after her.
I happened to speak of Mrs. Brindlecombe's pin, the wonderful one I just wrote about. The very next day Galusha came trotting in, bubbling over with mischief and mystery like the boy he is in so many things, and handed me a jeweler's box. When I opened it there was a platinum brooch with a diamond in it as big honestly, Lulie, I believe it was as big as my thumbnail, or two thirds as big, anyway.
Every little while Miss Laura blew her whistle, and called, "Malta, Malta," and I barked as loudly as I could. Mr. Morris drove for several hours, then we stopped at a house, had dinner, and then set out again. We were going through a thick wood, where there was a pretty straight road, when I saw a small, dark creature away ahead, trotting toward us. It was Malta.
You must carve it for him; you know I told you he is very particular. Give him some of the egg, too he likes that. Now, where is the Captain?" Not far off; for scarcely had Alice opened the door and called him once or twice, when, with a queer little note of answer, he came hurriedly trotting in.
POOR DEAR MAMMA blunders, halts too long, and breaks through it. It's all your rheumatism. They ride out of the garden. The Captain falls back. Ugh! Et caetera, et caetera, et caetera. 'Been trotting out the Gorgonzola! We all thought it was the Gorgon you're mashing. What the does it matter to you?
Drowsily she was sinking into slumber again when she heard the rapid clip-clop of trotting horses. Startled, she raised her head to listen. The men were coming back. Relief and dread seemed to clear her stupor. The trotting horses stopped across the lane from her cabin, evidently at the corral where she had left Spades. She heard him whistle.
Only bad little chil'en, 'thout any one to tell 'em any better, calls names. But they didn't one of 'em stop, an' Lishers just whistled, an' forty-two bears came trotting right out of the woods, an' eated up every one of those bad chil'en, quicker'n scat. 'Liza said so, herself.
"Good luck!" cried Cash Dallam from his porch, and several in the crowd caught up the cry.. Juan uttered a series of extraordinary whoops, and working his legs like the long limbs of a seventeen-year locust, he dashed to the head of the procession. The next minute they were off, the pack burros trotting behind in a sedate line. But just as they started an odd thing happened.
The horses were trotting fast and there were two people in the light wagon. Helen saw that one was Charnock. The other, who held the reins, was, no doubt, his wife, and Helen was sorry that Festing was at work beyond the rise. She would have liked him to be there when she received her visitors, but did not think it prudent to send for him.
The railroad has, however, spoiled a good deal of this; it runs from the summit of the mountain, along its side or flank, inland to Chippewa, beyond the Falls; and you are whirled along, not by steam, but by three trotting horses, at a rapid rate, through a wood road, until you reach the Falls, where you obtain just a glimpse and no more of the Cataract.
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