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Updated: September 25, 2025
Burnett tightened his lines, chirruped to the horse, and drove on, the squatter staring open-mouthed after him. The summer sun bathed the hillside and warmed the Skinner shanty. Tessibel's hedge lifted its green head upward as if to catch the golden rays. The flower beds rimmed the hut like a bewildering, gorgeous rainbow.
Numbers of birds with ruffled feathers, with little splints on their legs, or with sadly drooping heads, were going to roost in small cages hung from the branches to protect them from cats and other beasts of prey; to each, as he went by, Rufinus spoke a kindly word, or chirruped to encourage and cheer it.
It was comfortable, after the racking acceleration. He could have gone to sleep easily, and almost did. Then the spacemonk chirruped at him uneasily. The marmoset was feeling the odd weightlessness, too. The chirrup brought Rick back to his senses. He wasn't in some marvelous bed, he was in space!
Saxon pointed in silence, indicating that the purple flood was the sunset shadow of Sonoma Mountain. Billy nodded, then chirruped to the mares, and the descent began through a warm and colorful twilight.
It builds in their cromlechs, and its song remembers them. It is the bird, too, in whose nest the cuckoo lays; so it knows all about losing one's children and being dispossessed. "We will give him a gift," chirruped the wren, "and send him about his business. He is the first man that has the sense to leave us to ours." "But will he? will he?" the titlark piped back ghostlily.
She laughed again at the thought and folded her hands carefully in her lap. "It's quite impossible to think of you interfering with the property of someone else; even though that property were a girl." Mechanically the Indian chirruped to the team and shook the reins. On his face the look of perplexity deepened.
"I counted six casks, m'lord, so well as I could by the feel " "Yes, yes! And here's a couple of sovereigns for yourself all I happen to have in my pocket " Lord Rattley bustled off to the house for brandy. "England's old England, hows'ever you strike it!" chirruped the prisoner gleefully, and touched his forehead again. "See you at the Show, m' lord, maybe?
He stood on the safely railed rear-platform, looked at the gigantic pine-furred shoulder round which men at their lives' risk had led every yard of the track, and chirruped: 'I say, why can't all this be nationalised? There was nothing under heaven except the snows and the steep to prevent him from dropping off the cars and hunting a mine for himself.
'You offer me a lunch? she chirruped deliciously, in the street. 'I gave you a lunch. You give me one. It is why I am come to Monte Carlo, for that lunch. They lunched at the Hôtel de Paris. He was intoxicated that afternoon, though not with the Heidsieck they had consumed. They sat out on the terrace. It was December, but like an English June.
"Oscar," he called quickly, "drive me down to the station, I want to get that ten-thirty-seven train." As the driver chirruped to his horses and swung out into the street, Marshall Haney, with full understanding that this was to be his eternal farewell, turned and looked up, hoping to catch a last glimpse of his wife's sweet face at the window.
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