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Updated: May 4, 2025
"I am going to see that woman to-morrow, and ask some questions about her blind daughter," said Aunt Madge, turning away from the window. "Ask 'bout her nose, too." "Whose nose, Fly?" "The woman's. It keeps a-moving when she talks." "There, who else noticed that?" exclaimed Horace, tossing his young sister aloft. "It takes Fly, with her little eye, to see things."
He puts his arm around my neck, and whispers in my ear, "I'm a-moving off!" "Moving off?" "Hush! Don't speak so loud. Moving off! Ah! wot's that? Don't you hear? there! listen!" We listen, and hear the water gurgle and click beneath the floor. "It's them wot he sent I old Altascar sent. They've been here all night.
"Charley, darling, if you could only have written to us, what dreadful distress you would have saved!" exclaimed Constance. "He write, miss!" interposed the woman. "He couldn't have writ to save his life! And we was a-moving up stream again before he was well enough to tell us anything about himself. My husband might have writ a word else; I ain't no hand at a pen myself.
But father headed 'em, and turned 'em towards the peak. The dog worried those that wanted to stay by the yard or turn another way. We dropped our whip on 'em, and kept 'em going. In five minutes they were all a-moving along in one mob at a pretty sharpish trot like a lot of store cattle. Father knew his way about, whether the country was thick or open. It was all as one to him.
When you saw them packing up and going to the station, didn't you do anything?" "No, sir." "Why on earth not?" "I didn't see them, sir. I only found out as they'd gone after they'd been and went, sir. Walking down by the Net and Mackerel, met one of them coastguards. 'Oh, says he, 'so you're moving? 'Who's a-moving? I says to him. 'Well, he says to me, 'I seen your Mr.
And thou, Lexiphanes, comest thou, or tarriest here? 'Its a thousand years, quoth I, 'till I bathe; for I am in no comfort, with sore posteriors from my mule-saddle. Trod the mule-man as on eggs, yet kept his beast a-moving. And when I got to the farm, still no peace for the wicked. I found the hinds shrilling the harvest-song, and there were persons burying my father, I think it was.
Everything conspired to cheat the visitor into the belief that he had come at last to an abode where every hurtful passion was hushed, and where Peace had fixed her chosen seat. "All right," shouted the passport official: the gensdarmes, who guarded the path with naked bayonet, stepped aside; and the quick, sharp crack of the postilion's whip set the horses a-moving.
Keep a-moving, but take it easy and save yourself for to-morrow. About two o'clock, or so, I'll shoot three times. Then you can come to camp and get a little sleep. You got to be in shape for to-morrow." "Why especially to-morrow?" asked Bob. "Fire dies in the cool of night; it comes up in the middle of the day," explained Morton succinctly.
He patiently awaits an explicit answer; and Jo, more baffled by his patience than by anything else, at last desperately whispers a name in his ear. "Aye!" says Allan. "Why, what had you been doing?" "Nothink, sir. Never done nothink to get myself into no trouble, 'sept in not moving on and the inkwhich. But I'm a-moving on now. I'm a-moving on to the berryin ground that's the move as I'm up to."
Snagsby descends and finds the two 'prentices intently contemplating a police constable, who holds a ragged boy by the arm. "Why, bless my heart," says Mr. Snagsby, "what's the matter!" "This boy," says the constable, "although he's repeatedly told to, won't move on " "I'm always a-moving on, sar," cries the boy, wiping away his grimy tears with his arm.
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