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We done it, and then peeped down the woods through the leaves. Pretty soon a splendid young man come galloping down the road, setting his horse easy and looking like a soldier. He had his gun across his pommel. I had seen him before. It was young Harney Shepherdson. I heard Buck's gun go off at my ear, and Harney's hat tumbled off from his head.
Three or four white dots were moving slowly along the face of the hill. "Sheep!" said Jeremy, taking heart. "They'd not have left the sheep unless " But the boat was ready, below the side, and the Captain and the two boys tumbled quickly in. Five minutes later the four stout rowers sent the bow far up the sand with a final heave on the oars. They jumped out and hastened up the hill.
They wrenched it open, and tumbled out into the dark; but something slammed it with a crash after them, and shut the dog in; for Wentworth heard it howling as they raced down the drive. Yet no one had the pluck to go back to let it out, which does not surprise me. "Wentworth sent for me the following day. He had heard of me in connection with that Steeple Monster Case.
Though they passed the night under his roof, he did not offer them food or drink. This rich man was desirous of having a wall repaired that had tumbled down. There was no need for him to take any steps to have it rebuilt, for, when Elijah left the house, he prayed that the wall might erect itself, and, lo! it stood upright.
He was not interrupted again until the camp watchmen came around to turn out the second guard. Ned was asleep and he tumbled out rubbing his eyes, not sure just what was wanted of him. "Wake up," laughed Tad. "You are getting to be a regular sleepy head." "Guess I am. Is is it time to go out?" "It is. And it is a dark night, too." "Whew!
"Well, but it's SOMETHING, old lady. Out with it!" Rosemary tumbled his hair with her free hand. "I was thinking of mother," she confessed, very low. His eyes were fast on hers for another short silence. "Well," he spoke as if to a small child "what were you thinking, dear?" "Oh, I was just thinking, Ted, that it's not fair. It isn't fair," said Rosemary, with a little difficulty.
And now, indeed, my heart beat so that my body seemed to shake with hope and fear as I walked. At the door of the chamber wherein the Maid lay we met her guards coming forth, who cried roughly, bidding her good even, and to think well of what waited her, meaning the torments. They tumbled down the stairs laughing, while we went in, and I last.
She couldn't, at first, quite catch the Halberton air, but, being an admirable mimic, she soon tumbled into it. The clothes with which Lady Halberton supplied her helped her to realise the character that she was expected to assume.
He turned and held up one finger. Revolver in hand, he tiptoed up the steps, and with a cry sprang inside and toward the man in the chair. The intruder was so taken by surprise that he tumbled over backward.
Water dripped from the rocks, which but a few feet apart, rose far above us, and a little rill made its way along the bottom, into which the sun has never shone. Heavy masses of rock, which had tumbled down from the sides lay in the way, and tall pine trees sprung from every cleft.
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