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Scattered about this particular marsh are a number of small willows and young alder trees, each one of which is capable of providing plenty of branches suitable for the bird to perch upon, and all are in a like favourable position so far as the outlook therefrom is concerned.
"An ign'rant, savage, stupid brute!" he murmured bitterly, "well, I reckon she was right Hell!" he exclaimed aloud, "I wonder if Skinny'll remember about that upper crossin' bein' dang'rous with quicksand after the rain Guess he did," he finished as the two riders turned to the right toward the lower and more distant river ford and disappeared among the willows and cottonwood trees that fringed the Cimarron.
As the north wind, blowing on an orchard that has been sodden with autumn rain, soon dries it, and the heart of the owner is glad even so the whole plain was dried and the dead bodies were consumed. Then he turned tongues of fire on to the river. He burned the elms the willows and the tamarisks, the lotus also, with the rushes and marshy herbage that grew abundantly by the banks of the river.
We came up the hill together now, and soon the tents were pitched out among the willows. As I watched them from the post window busy about their new camping ground, it was with a feeling of genuine loneliness that I realised that I should not again be one of the little party. Later came the reckoning, which may be summed up as follows: Time: June 27th to August 27th.
As Fleur-de-Marie drew near the banks of the river, her pale cheeks became slightly colored; she inhaled with delight the sharp, pure air of the country, and cried, in a burst of artless joy, "Oh! there in the middle of the river, do you see that pretty little island covered with willows and poplars, with the white house on the shore?
Both were considerably exhausted by the experiences through which they had providentially passed without serious injury, and consequently the progress was slow. But at last they reached the bank, where the red and grey willows bent their long strands in a tangled trellis. Knee deep in the mud, the men stood upright, to clear the way to freedom.
They tend on the whole to exalt. With this multitude of willows, however, it was something far different, I felt. Some essence emanated from them that besieged the heart. A sense of awe awakened, true, but of awe touched somewhere by a vague terror.
"You and I never think alike about things," said Felicia sadly. "You old darling! What does it matter, as long as we agree in being fond of each other?" At eighteen Elisabeth said farewell to Fox How with many tears, and came back to live at the Willows with Miss Farringdon.
Custer descended the steep bank that sloped down to the water's edge. His eyes were fixed on a dense growth of willows and sycamores that lined the shore; it was from a spot within their black shadows that the cries for help seemed to come. Presently he paused. "Hullo!" he called, peering into the darkness ahead of him.
They were occasionally varied by long walks into the country near London, for the purpose of refilling his sketch-book. It was on one of such occasions when he was sketching the details of some picturesque pollard old willows up the Thames, and standing all the time in wet ground that he caught a severe cold which confined him to the house. He rapidly became worse.
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