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Little tadpoles and efts began to bubble up through the water, and to race along beneath it; toads made noises like very young ducks, and advanced to the margin in twos and threes; overhead, bumble-bees flew hither and thither in the thickening light, their drone coming and going like the sound of a gong.
He lighted the oil lamp, pulled down the window shade, sat down in a chair to one side of the door to wait. An hour passed with no sound save occasional footfalls in the hall and the drone of the wind in the trees outside. Another hour had nearly been consumed in waiting when Rathburn heard some one coming up the stairs. The footfalls were soft, catlike.
And exactly in the same manner as with gregarious animals, ants or bees, the separate individuals divide the labor among them. The queen lays the egg, the drone fructifies it; the bee works his whole life long. And precisely this thing takes place in mankind and in human societies.
From the blank darkness outside came in, through the aperture that served for a window, all the ever unfamiliar noises of night in the wilderness the long nameless note of a distant coyote; the stilly pulsing thrill of tireless insects in trees; strange cries of night birds, so different from those of the birds of day; the drone of great blundering beetles, and all that mysterious chorus of small sounds that seem always to have been but half heard when they have suddenly ceased, as if conscious of an indiscretion.
Tell me that a drone has a sting, and I'll believe you as easily as I will that this young woman is a debtor to any of the tribe of Bush!" "It is but little matter who owes me, or where I am in debt. There are none to care for a girl who is fatherless and motherless, and whose nearest kin are the offcasts of all honest people. No, no; go, lady, and Heaven for ever bless you!
F.E.R. Collinge of No. 1 Section D.A.C. will join B Battery to-day." The night bristled with excitements. No. 1 Section of the D.A.C., with two hundred horses, were camped a hundred yards from us, and at 9 P.M. I was in their mess, talking books of the day, horses, and stage gossip. A lull in the conversation was broken by the low unmistakable drone of an enemy aeroplane.
I tell you what does a little counteract those eloquent incentives to break his own head against the strong walls of the Social System, it is, that he has two eyes in that head which are not always employed in reading. But then Parson Dale, though High Church to the marrow, is neither hypocrite nor drone.
They thought they heard approaching footsteps. A moment passed but no one came into the room. "Hurry," urged Glora. "That was nothing. We're waiting too long." "My boy Alan, after all these years " As they were about to take the diminishing drug a very queer sound came from across the room. A scuttling, scratching, and the drone of wings. "God, Father look!"
"I have just came on, sah," the man announced with his incongruous British accent. "Take me up " Then the slow drone of the elevator, the three steps to the door, which swung open at the impetus of his knock. "Gloria!" His voice was trembling. No answer. A faint string of smoke was rising from a cigarette-tray a number of Vanity Fair sat astraddle on the table. "Gloria!"
The lazy drone of the bees in the clover beside her, the languorous summer airs swaying into gentle nodding the timothy stalks just above her head, and all the soothing sounds of a summer morning, that many-voiced choir that sings to the great God Nature's glad content that all is so very good, rested and comforted the girl's heart and body, making her know as she had not known before how very weary she had been and how deep an ache her heart had held.
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