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It was one of Emily's earliest pleasures to ramble among the scenes of nature; nor was it in the soft and glowing landscape that she most delighted; she loved more the wild wood-walks, that skirted the mountain; and still more the mountain's stupendous recesses, where the silence and grandeur of solitude impressed a sacred awe upon her heart, and lifted her thoughts to the GOD OF HEAVEN AND EARTH. In scenes like these she would often linger along, wrapt in a melancholy charm, till the last gleam of day faded from the west; till the lonely sound of a sheep-bell, or the distant bark of a watch-dog, were all that broke on the stillness of the evening.
Yet all this was sheer conjecture; and, as the old man came near, he saw there was something besides kindliness in the eyes that met his own. He saluted boldly and deferentially. "Mr. Bourgoign," he said in a low voice, "I must speak five minutes with you. And I ask you to make as if you were my friend." The old man stiffened like a watch-dog. It was plain that he was on his guard.
Aennchen explains all as reflexes of the incidents of the previous night the work on the white bridal dress, the terrible black feather on Max's hat; and merrily tells a ghostly tale of a nocturnal visitor to her sainted aunt which turned out to be the watch-dog. Enter the bridesmaids with their song:
The door was opened by Janouille, M. Lecoq's old servant, who had very much the manner and appearance of a grenadier. She was as faithful to her master as a watch-dog, and always stood ready to attack anyone who did not treat him with the august respect which she considered his due. "Well, M. Fanferlot," she said, "you come in time for once in your life. Your patron wants to see you."
The animal, when he arrived, leapt from the dog-cart in which he had been unwillingly conveyed and proved to be an Airedale, guaranteed to be a perfect watch-dog and suspicious of all strangers. Proudly, Zebedee delivered himself of these recommendations. "He's trained, thoroughly trained to bite. And he's enormously strong. Just look at his neck! Look at his teeth get through anything."
His head was thrown a little back, his nostrils distended. He reminded Arnold for a moment of a watch-dog, listening. "Of course," he muttered, "of course. Come back as soon as you can and let us know what has happened." Arnold made his way through the reception hall and across the courtyard. Already the crowd of people was melting away.
She met his eyes with a sort of child's impertinence. She had abruptly become the Vere of the Scoglio di Frisio. "Who would take you for a watch-dog?" "Ma Signorina!" "As a seal yes, you are all very well! But " The young man was immediately in the seventh Heaven. The Signorina remembered his feats in the water.
They listened but heard only the wind, sounding through the tall trees of the boulevard. "Now I think of it, father when the garden-door is once open, shall we take Spoil-sport with us?" "Yes; for if there is a watch-dog, he will settle him. And then he will give us notice of the approach of those who go the rounds.
Cornwall Devon Essex Kent Sussex everywhere; disturbed ourselves, so that by night as well as day we lack repose; and are forced to be our own watch-dog, to the great discomfort and danger of our body, and the vexation of our soul! Pardon for such as they!
However, I'm pretty jolly, despite a severe attack of rheumatism, which has not been improved by my getting up in the night and rushing out in my shirt to chase away trespassing cows and pigs, as we have not got a watch-dog yet. "`When my wife shuts her eyes at night her dreams are of one invariable subject blackberries!
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