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There had been no work and no wages in the house for months, and the landlord had given notice that at the end of the week, out they must go, unless the back rent was paid. And there was about as much likelihood of its being paid as of a slice of the February sun dropping down through the ceiling into the room to warm the shivering Gavin family. It began when Gavin's health gave way.
After sweeping and dusting the shop and drawing the blinds she opened the glass case and took out a hat. But when she saw a tiny gray mouse nestling among the ribbons and laces she gave a loud shriek, and, dropping the hat, sprang with one bound to the top of the table. The sister, knowing the shriek to be one of fear, leaped upon a chair and exclaimed: "What is it? Oh! what is it?"
They will prove you did it; and hang you! Ride for your life! Ride for Canada; and hide!" Was he thinking of Calamity or Eleanor? But where was Flood; and where was the drunken man? He fastened a stone to the end of the cut cable, and with a shout began dropping it down and down from the windlass.
The next untoward event was the dropping of one of its feet by the sofa, and the warping up of a large piece of veneering on the back. While lamenting over this, we discovered a broken spring ready to make its way through the hair cloth covering. "So much for cheap furniture," said I, in a tone of involuntary triumph. My husband looked at me half reproachfully, and so I said no more.
"Man b'longey top-side horse!" cried Ping, again pointing in another direction. The Overlanders saw a cloud of dust rolling toward them over the desert, ahead of the cloud being a horseman riding at a swift gallop. "This would seem to be our day at home, judging from the number of callers who are dropping in," observed Elfreda. Grace threw up her glasses and took a quick look.
But I do say that in the styles of Deuteronomy you aren't necessarily what you might call up." "Yes, sir," said Rollo, dropping his eyes, "but a well-dressed man was a well-dressed man, sir, then as now."
They had been dropping down to lower levels the greater part of the day, and somewhere about three o'clock in the afternoon they were not quite sure of the hour, since the sun was masked by the trees they found themselves in what looked like a narrow gully. Both sides of it were lined with thick bushes of golden wattle that shut out all view on either hand.
In other words, we observe that when an impression has been repeatedly made in a certain sequence on any living organism that impression not having been prejudicial to the creature itself the organism will have a tendency, on reassuming the shape and conditions in which it was when the impression was last made, to remember the impression, and therefore to do again now what it did then; all intermediate memories dropping clean out of mind, so far as they have any effect upon action.
And why didn't you answer my letter the one I wrote you at South Harniss? I didn't hear a word and only tonight, after dinner, I had the inspiration of phoning Mrs. Wyeth and trying to learn from her where you were and what you meant by dropping all your friends.
He had been to the stars and also to the deeps; he had roamed over strange mountains far away from cities or inhabited places of the earth, and had lived by streams whose waves were silvered by moonlight dropping softly through whispering palm branches....
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