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While the voices of the other men came to them faintly, and the insects chirped about their feet, and the birds called in the trees above them. At last Egil came slowly back, sullen-eyed and grim-mouthed. He held a branch in his hands and was bending and breaking it fiercely. "It is shame enough," he began after a while, "that any man should have had it in his power to spare me.
I greeted him with little whistles and twitters thinking of course that he would fly down to me for our usual conversation. But though he chirped a reply and put his head on one side engagingly he did not move from his bough. "What is the matter with you?" I said. "Come down come down, little brother!" But he did not come. He only sidled and twittered and stayed where he was.
"Never touched me!" he chirped, jumping up and pounding the plate with his bat. "You couldn't hit a barn door. Come on. I'll paste one a mile!" Bob did not get an opportunity to hit, for Harris could not locate the plate and passed him to first on four balls. "Dump the first one," whispered Daddy in Grace's ear. Then he gave Bob a signal to run on the first pitch.
Twins in poverty." "I stick to von business at a time, Uncle," said good-natured, successful Max. A flicker of aberration lighted in the old man's eye. "H'm, yes," said he, pondering. "Stuck to one business. So you did. H'm." Then, suddenly sly, he chirped: "But I've struck it rich now." He tapped his box. "Jewelry," he half-whispered. "Miners and cow-boys." "Yes," said Vogel.
You have courage, mon gars;" and I saw that I had risen in his estimation. "He swims like a fish and he has no fear," chirped Carette from her hiding-place. "All the same, bon Dieu, the Gouliot is no pond," and he looked through me again. "How old are you, mon gars?" "Thirteen next year." "And what are you going to make of yourself when you grow up?" "I don't know."
The cannon were roaring, the balls were flying, the battle was raging. But amid all the turmoil and danger, the little birds chirped happily in the safe shelter where the great general, Robert E. Lee, had placed them. "He prayeth best, who loveth best All things both great and small; For the dear God who loveth us, He made and loveth all."
It was all as Eloise had chosen, even to the two who sat far back, with their hands clasped, as wide-eyed as children before this sacred merging of two souls into one. A little brown bird perched on the threshold, chirped a few questioning notes, then flew away to his own nest. Acorns fell from the oaks across the road, and the musical hum and whir of Autumn came faintly from the fields.
The old hope that had chirped in his soul was justified, and the dear delicious dream was come true. Oh! God was great, God was good, God had given him more than he had asked or deserved! Thus for some minutes he stood motionless, blessing the God of Jacob, yet uttering no words, for his heart was too full for speech, only holding Naomi closely to him, while his tears fell on her blind face.
"Mistress Tonks," I said, "I want you to shelter this lady for the night." "To be sure," chirped the little woman. "Luckily I've kept the sojers off. Every house in the town is full of 'em, and the Mayor's at his wits' end to know how to stuff 'em all in.
The same bright yet tender tint reddened the crab-apple and the wild-cherry; the tomtits and the robins chirped as before, among the bushes, and, as in the previous year, one heard the sound of the beechnuts and acorns dropping on the rocky paths.
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