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She turned, looking very much taken aback and bewildered, but with light in her eyes, color in her face. Morrison burst out: "Oh, a dream realized! Something to live on all one's days, the pines of the Borghese the cypresses of the Villa Medici roses cascading over the walls in Rome, the view across the Campagna from the terraces at Rocca di Papa "
Then a roaring boom burst upon the night, with other thunderous reports following in rapid succession, until it seemed that the mined earth cascading upward in the darkness was the bombardment of scores of cannon. The flames of the torches and the falling snow tossed and whirled at the percussion of air. Showers of clay rained upon the earth. Vibrations jarred the ground.
In the car, a handsome young rogue at the wheel, and who was this blithe creature in shiny leather coat and leather cap, with crumpling dark curls cascading beneath it? A suspicion tinkled in the breast of Spondee, in those days a valiant movie fan. Up got the young man, and hopped out of the car.
Then, perhaps because the crowd bad begun to whisper, and she wanted all attention, she raised both arms to toss back the golden hair that came cascading nearly to her knees. And as if the crowd knew that symptom well, it drew its breath in sharply and grew very still. "Muhammad Anim!" she said, and she might have been wooing him. "That was a devil's trick!"
Even as he shouted there came the swish of wet canvas as the men tumbled from their bed rolls, the imprecations of the suddenly awakened. Billie thrust her head from the teepee flap, the water cascading down her neck. The successive flashes showed the men tugging desperately at boots and chaps, their grotesque, froglike leaps for their tethered mounts.
You would think that by eighty-four she had seen enough new babies, more than enough, that she had seen through that strange business and could now take it for granted, the stream of funny new life cascading into the already so full world.
"Ah!" said my mother. "It doesn't suit me," said my uncle. "I'm the cascading sort." "George was that," said my mother after a pondering moment. My aunt Susan took up the parable with an affectionate glance at her husband. "He's always trying to make his old business jump," she said. "Always putting fresh cards in the window, or getting up to something. You'd hardly believe.
The barking of dogs was mordant to his thumping head, and it took a half hour before he was asleep the cascading of sleep only interrupted when the pallid sister poured him tea, squeezing a lemon exclusively into his glass, serving unto him while he was lying there. "You don't have to do that," he said. "I want to," she said as she tilted a glass toward him.
He was waiting, and I waited with him: we had not long so to stand. The mist which so often lifts as one passes the crest of the hills lifted for us also, and, below, it was broad day. Ten thousand feet below, at the foot of forest cascading into forest, stretched out into an endless day, was the Weald.
For a moment it held solidly, then, as the screens of the enemy went into action, it rebounded and glanced off in sparkling, cascading torrents.
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