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Updated: May 18, 2025
In the cup of a spring dusk that was filled to overflowing with an ineffable sweetness and the rich, loamy odors of turned earth; with rising sap and low mists; with blackening tree-tops and the chittering of birds the first lamplight of all the broad and fertile landscape moved across the window of a story-and-a-half white house which might have been either itself or its own outlying barn.
And when the fort guns boomed out the noon hour M. Radisson sprang up all impatience. "I'll wait no man's time," he vowed. "Losing time is losing the game! Launch out!" Chittering something about our throats being cut, Godefroy shrank back. With a quick stride M. Radisson was towering above him.
He heard the sharp chittering of an aroused squirrel, repeated in two shrill bursts. But his own ear close to the ground told him they were to expect company. There was the regular thud of horses' hoofs, the sound of mounts ridden in company and at an even pace. The only remaining question was whether it was a Union patrol and small enough for the four of them to handle.
My heart, I remember, swelled up bitter within me at the sight of that bare house and the thought of the old miser sitting chittering within in the cold kitchen. "There is my home," said I; "and my family." "Poor David Balfour!" said Miss Grant.
But I, cradled in woodcraft, had heard plainly a man creeping through the underbrush beside us. Fear of the Congo chief and pity for the wretch tore at my heart. Suddenly there loomed in front of us, on the path, a great, naked man. We stood with useless limbs, staring at him. Then, from the trees over our heads, came a chittering and a chattering such as I had never heard.
She laid her fingers on the key and sent the message in a whirl of chittering little sounds, waited a moment while the sounder spoke, paused, and then began a rapid clicking, which was the repeated message, and wrote it down upon its form. "There if it's correct, that's all," she told him in a tone of dismissal, and waited openly for him to go.
There was noise, and to spare, outside, but within everything was still, except for the chittering of a nest of bats in the eaves, and the sudden, relaxing creak of bamboo chairs, that behave sometimes as though ghosts sat restlessly in their arms. The sunlight that fell into the garden and caught its green, turning it into flaming emerald, climbed in at Mr.
But one bright sunny day a Swallow came flying along. He had just returned from far distant lands, and all the other birds gathered chittering around him, eager to hear the news he had brought.
He crept out of his place, gave the chittering signal call of the fluff-ball, and heard Jil-Lee's answer in a cleverly mimicked trill of a night insect. "Did you feel something just now in your head?" Travis found it difficult to put that sensation into words. "Not so. But you did?" He had of course, he had! The remains of it were still in him, that point of panic. "Yes." "The machine?"
He pointed to two figures, more dead than alive, chittering with cold. Le Borgne's foxy eye took on a stolid look. "White men lost in the snow," said he, "white-man from the big white canoe come walkee walkee one two three sleep watchee good Indian friend fort!"
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