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Our young friend, it must be premised, had no sooner received the thrust of Lady Kew's two fingers on entering, than it had been intimated to him that his interview with that gracious lady was at an end. For she had instantly called her daughter to her, with whom her ladyship fell a-whispering; and then it was that Clive retreated from Lady Kew's hand, to fall into Barnes's.
The poacher's reply was characteristic: "As you means it kindly, Master Horsehair, I won't take it for an insult: howsomdever, either your hand or mine, I won't say which, is too dirty for shaking. Let me do you a good turn, Master: there's a blue-bottle on your wig; I think as it's Beelzebub a-whispering in your ear: allow me to drive him away."
I watched them disappear down the path how naturally arms seem to go round waists in Fairyland! and then, my cheek on the cool marble, lulled by the trickle of water, I slipped into dreamland out of real and magic world alike. When I woke, the sun had gone in, a chill wind set all the leaves a-whispering, and the peacock on the lawn was harshly calling up the rain.
Such an idea was past belief and set me smiling. I laid my hollowed palms behind my ears and listened. Master Wind, passing through the tree-tops, had set every leaf a-whispering and nid-nodding to its gossips, just as the peddler on his way through the village at home stirs all the women-folk to chattering about the latest news from the whole countryside.
The man looked up and down the street, and then he put his 'ead near them and whispered. "Eh?" ses Sam's pal. "Something I picked up," ses the man, still a-whispering. Sam got a pinch on the arm from 'is pal that nearly made him scream, then they both stood still, staring at the docker. "Wot is it?" ses Sam, at last.
The poacher's reply was characteristic: "As you means it kindly, Master Horsehair, I won't take it for an insult: howsomdever, either your hand or mine, I won't say which, is too dirty for shaking. Let me do you a good turn, Master: there's a blue-bottle on your wig; I think as it's Beelzebub a-whispering in your ear: allow me to drive him away."
Vegetable productions, of whatever kind, seemed more than negatively happy, in the juicy warmth and abundance of their life. The Pyncheon Elm, throughout its great circumference, was all alive, and full of the morning sun and a sweet-tempered little breeze, which lingered within this verdant sphere, and set a thousand leafy tongues a-whispering all at once.
The man looked up and down the street, and then he put his 'ead near them and whispered. "Eh?" ses Sam's pal. "Something I picked up," ses the man, still a-whispering. Sam got a pinch on the arm from 'is pal that nearly made him scream, then they both stood still, staring at the docker. "Wot is it?" ses Sam, at last.
Her satisfaction lasted while she rode to the next ridge. Then the little devils of doubt came a-swarming and a-whispering. She had said she knew all about Ward; well, she did, to a greater extent than others knew. But she wondered if she did not know too much, or if she knew enough. There were some things
"I hope I'll be well enough to get to chapel on Sunday," she said, "just to see the folk's looks. The minister needn't expect much attention to his sermon. 'There's Phoebe Tozer's daughter! they'll all be saying, and a-staring, and a-whispering. It ain't often as anything like her is seen in chapel, that's a fact," said the old lady, warming into the exultation of natural pride.
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