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Is this a nuns' cloister, where all the gates lie open, and the carls come in and out as if it were a dove-cot? Shame on ye, for light wantons! Wait; Sidonia will bring you into order. Ha! ye turned me out; but now ye must have me, whether ye will or no!" At such blasphemies the nuns were struck dumb.
She seemed no longer able to find in her own hearth an adequate focus for her life, and hence, like a weak queen-bee after leading off to an independent home, had hovered again into the parent hive. But he had not construed these and other incidents of the kind till now. Something was wrong in the dove-cot.
And while her eyes radiated love, still there came forth from behind the pouting lips the mocking words: "But, Uli, what will Stini say, if you're after another girl so soon? Won't she sing to you: 'A dove-cot would be just as true: It's off with the old love, on with the new." "But how can you play the fool with him so?" queried her aunt; "you see he's in earnest.
A tolerable, though old-fashioned garden, a well-stocked dove-cot, and the possession of any quantity of ground which the convenience of the family might require, rendered the place in every respect suitable, as the advertisements have it, 'for the accommodation of a genteel family. Here, then, Mannering resolved, for some time at least, to set up the staff of his rest.
Hardly had he gone, after a half-hour's chat, than another card was handed, and the name it bore caused a slight flutter in the dove-cot. A friend of Miss Livy's, in Boston, had sent orders to his brother in London to devote himself to the wandering ladies when they came.
Even the last day and the last night of a condemned felon must come to an end. Let them once get over this unpleasant day and they would go right away. They would have a home of their own, a quiet, peaceful parsonage all to themselves, with a large flower garden and a dove-cot. Barbara Pirka had prophesied rightly.
As the dove to her dove-cot from the swooping hawk as the Christian pinnace to Christian batteries, from the bloody Mahometan corsair, so flew so tried to fly towards the anchoring thickets, that, alas! could not weigh their anchors and make sail to meet her the poor exhausted Kate from the vengeance of pursuing frost.
"Never mind, come along," said Mark; and he went to the edge of the cave and stood looking out like a pigeon in one of the holes of a dove-cot preparing to take flight. "See anything, sir?" "Trees, rocks, sky; nothing more," said Mark; "but the sea must be straight before us, and it cannot be many miles away."
Was it real that he was going to her, or only some fantastic trick of Fate, a dream from which he would wake to find himself alone again? He passed the dove-cot at last, and kept on till he could round into the backwater and steal up under cover to the poplar.
When restored to liberty at Toulouse, he already knows that the direction which he must follow to regain his Dove-cot is the direction of the north. Therefore he wings straight in that direction and does not stop until he nears those latitudes where the mean temperature is that of the zone which he inhabits.
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