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"Doff, dog, doff," he hissed, "when a monarch deigns to lower his eyes to such as you!" then spurred through the underwood and was gone, with a gleam of steel shoes and flutter of dead leaves. The villein took the cruel blow without wince or cry, as one to whom stripes are a birthright and an inheritance.
Their huts of mud and rushes rise upon a low island in the marshes; and all communication with neighbouring tribes and with the town in which they sell the product of their rice-fields, is carried on by boats. The brakes are more impenetrable than the thickest underwood, but the natives have cut alleys through them, along which they impel their large flat-bottomed teradas with poles.
"I might also reply that I no more needed to ask your permission to sketch you than to ask that of the beeches, oaks, elms, and willows. I might tell you that you formed part of the landscape, that every artist who sketches a bit of underwood has the right to stick a figure in " "A figure, Monsieur! do you call me a figure?" "A gentleman, I mean. Artists call it figure.
But Darrell, seeing only the effect and knowing nothing of the cause, was vaguely troubled. On the day of the reception both Mr. Underwood and Darrell lunched and dined down town, returning together to The Pines in the interim between the afternoon and evening entertainments.
They, however, as I myself have observed, remain in the same woods where they have been feeding for several days together. I have also noticed that they prefer roosting in the low underwood, even when tall trees are close at hand.
I had this thing in view then, and had made up my mind you'd make the right man for the place, but you wouldn't hear to it." "That's all right, Mr. Underwood," said Darrell; "I appreciate your kind intentions just the same, but I am more than ever satisfied that I wouldn't have been the right man for the place."
Underwood felt greatly reconciled to the project. There was real usefulness in the work, great means of influencing men for good, and though there would be much of mechanical employment, for which it was a pity to give up the boy's education, yet it was a stepping stone to something better, and it gave present and increasing means of maintenance.
"I won't tell you a lie, Miss Chatty, when you've just found me out. But if you're going to tell upon me, this is the truth. I have been saying good-bye to her; and no one in Underwood will ever see her more." Then Lizzie began to cry again, melting Chatty's soft heart. "Why should I tell upon you? I have nothing to say. It appears that it is some one you know; but I don't know who it is."
She had some idea that it would be pleasant to go up to the church town, but just where the trees and underwood came near to the shingle a little bird singing on a May-thorn beguiled her to listen.
Their journey was through a broken rocky country covered with forest trees and underwood, so thick and close as to be quite matted together and every here and there deep foaming streams, some of which they were forced to cross on rafts. So wearisome was the journey, that in four days they had not advanced more than ten leagues, and they began to suffer much from hunger.
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