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The huge cedars on the lawn reared themselves up like giants in silver cloaks, and the horse-chestnut the Umbrella Tree, as the children called it loomed with motionless branches that were frosted and shining. Beyond it, in a blue mist of moonlight and distance, lay the kitchen-garden; he could just make out the line of the high wall where the fruit-trees grew.
Tell Wickersmith or someone to take a gun and an umbrella, and to go out and shoot them. And the wind the strumpet wind," he cried. "All last night it gurgled and howled and hooted in my chimney like a drunken banshee, and nearly frightened me to death. And me a musician. And me the gentlest of God's creatures who never did any harm, but killed the mice in father's barn.
There was now no sound in the forest: even the few birds not yet gone south, that had been chirping of the day's adventures, were hushed on a sudden, and the breeze died in the tree-tops. Inside the hut Manuel lighted his four candles, and he disposed of one under each umbrella in the prescribed manner.
On the next day, after a leisurely breakfast at eight the hunt was to begin at midday my kind host assigned me an elephant, and his servants proceeded to equip me for the hunt, placing in my howdah brandy, cold tea, cheroots, a rifle, a smooth-bore, ammunition, an umbrella, and finally a blanket. "And what is the blanket for?" I asked.
"You you have burnt your umbrella! Why you must be mad! Do you wish to ruin us outright?" He turned round, and felt that he was growing pale. "What are you talking about?" "I say that you have burnt your umbrella. Just look here " And rushing at him as if she were going to beat him, she violently thrust the little circular burnt hole under his nose.
The little gentleman's reply angered him. "Do you by any chance fancy that I am going lion-hunting with your umbrella?" queried the great man haughtily. The little man looked at his umbrella, smiled blandly, and still with the same lack of emotion, inquired: "Oho, then you are Monsieur" "Tartarin of Tarascon, lion-killer!"
I have just come to the end of a long wrestle with my umbrella. It has at last got its wicked will, and has turned right inside out! All its whalebones are aspiring heavenward. It is transformed into a melancholy cup like a great ugly flower, on a bare stalk. I lay the remains calmly down beside me, and affront the blast and the tempest alone!
So they went back to the palace and proposed to the new Boolooroo to marry Indigo so they could get their Magic Umbrella. But Ghip-Ghisizzle positively refused. "I'd like to help you," said he, "but nothing will ever induce me to marry one of those snubnoses." "They're very pretty for Blueskins," said Trot.
In about ten minutes the carriage stopped, the footman jumped down with his open umbrella in his hand, and let her into the house. Before she could ask whether she had better leave her cloak in the hall, the man was leading the way upstairs; it was rather dark, but she felt that the carpet under her feet was thick and soft.