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Updated: June 1, 2025
When the zephyr blew on them, it entered their ears and therewith the figures sang out with birdlike song, each in its own tongue.
Retarded by the vast, birdlike bulk that trailed below, they seemed hardly to make any progress at all. Stern ordered the free boats to hitch on and help by towing. Lines were passed, and after a while all twenty-five canoes, driven by the power of two hundred and fifty pairs of sinewy arms, were dragging the Pauillac shoreward.
His delight at fingering the crisp proceeds of Anstruther's check sent him to the Ouchy steamer in the very happiest of moods, and, his cup was running over when the birdlike Miss Genie Forbes descended upon him to announce a meeting on the morrow at Montreux. "We can do the castle, and essay the airy railroad at Territet Glion, have a jolly dinner on the hill, and come home on the last boat!
Lady Hannah, her little thumb cocked in the air, her round, birdlike eyes scientifically calculating angles, paused before making a rapid stroke, to say: "Don't be cheaply mysterious, my dear man. Of course, the Colonel visits the defences and outposts and so forth regularly after dark. It's part of the routine, surely?" "Of course.
"How strange he is!" she said to both her hearers, in confidence, looking from one to the other with a quick, birdlike turn of the head and bright eyes. "I have never seen any one like him." "No?" said Dormer Colville, encouragingly. "He said he was an Englishman; but, of course, he is not. He is French, and has not the manner of a bourgeois or a sailor.
The good Madame Marmet, her eyes fixed on the door, said: "I think that Monsieur Dechartre is coming." He came in, animated, with joy on his usually grave face. Miss Bell welcomed him with birdlike cries. "Monsieur Dechartre, we were impatient to see you. Monsieur Choulette was talking evil of doors yes, of doors of houses; and he was saying also that misfortune is a very obliging old gentleman.
Once again the swift color poured into the dark cheeks, even to the round birdlike throat. "No, señor." He considered this an instant before he accused her whimsically. "Then you're not a good girl. You should hate the devil, and I'm his agent. Any of your friends will tell you that." "Señor Gordon is a joke." He laughed weakly. "Am I? I'll bet I am, the fool way I acted."
True love is mixed up with birdlike squabbles, in which the disputants wound each other to the quick; but a quarrel without animus is, on the contrary, a piece of flattery to the dupe's conceit. The rare interviews granted to Crevel kept his passion at white heat.
"But " said Polly meditatively, for she remembered now that the Regent's Park murder, as it had been popularly called, was one of those which had remained as impenetrable a mystery as any other crime had ever been in the annals of the police. The man in the corner cocked his funny birdlike head well on one side and looked at her, highly amused evidently at her perplexity.
This pie, according to the final verse of the song, would now be cut, so that the company could see exactly what a Plutonian banquet was like. The troubadour borrowed a dagger from a man-at-arms, made one or two slashes at the ornate crust of the pie and out flew four live pigeons. Then Peirol gave his birdlike call, and eluding the hands raised to catch them the pigeons swooped down to him.
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