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But we've got to look out that some of those black fellows don't drop over the bow, and give us the slip." "They'll starve if they do," said the captain, "for not a biscuit, or a drop of water, goes ashore until the gold is out of the hold." Burke shook his head. "We'll do what we can, captain," said he, "but that hold's a regular fishpond, and we'll have to dive for the bags."
I never knew him to do such a thing before!" "Oh, it isn't anything so very dreadful," declared Mother Morrison, smiling. "Any laddie with a sweet tooth might easily do the same thing. Come, children, Grace is waiting to play for you." They played "Going to Jerusalem" and "Drop the Handkerchief," and all the time there was the mysterious fishpond back of the table!
As it came down into the little plain, it was there received into a fair channel and ran very swiftly into the middest thereof, where it formed a lakelet, such as the townsfolk made whiles, by way of fishpond, in their gardens, whenas they have a commodity thereof.
This was the vivier of the chateau fishpond, long drawn out like a canal, and fed by a spring, but which had been left to itself until it was nearly shaded over by alders and other trees. At the end farthest from all habitations was a little structure built of stones, open on one side, and with small orifices in the three remaining walls. These could be closed, and yet they were not windows.
This proceeded from a nymph in terra-cotta, from whose urn dripped, day and night, a thin rill of water into a small fishpond, bordered by grand old poplars, whose shadows threw upon its surface, even at mid-day, the blackness of Acheron. Camors's first reflection at viewing this prospect was an exceedingly painful one; and the second was even more so.
The latter, after having viewed and commended all the garden and Messer Neri's house and washed, seated himself at one of the tables, which were set beside the fishpond, and seating Count Guy de Montfort, who was of his company, on one side of him and Messer Neri on the other, commanded other three, who were come thither with them, to serve according to the order appointed of his host.
Sister stuffed the buttons in her pocket and ran home, eager to see what Louise and Brother had bought. When Mother Morrison had suggested a fishpond for the party, Louise and Grace had protested. "Oh, Mother!" they cried. "That's so old!" "But the children like it," said Mother Morrison mildly. "It's fun," urged Brother. "It's fun to fish over the table and catch something!"
It was no matter of indifference, that of the two men of rank, who in 662 acted as supreme masters of morals to the community, the one publicly reproached the other with having shed tears over the death of a -muraena- the pride of his fishpond, and the latter retaliated on the former that he had buried three wives and had shed tears over none of them.
Some sixty I keep thinking when I sow some sixty, and some seventy, and some an hundredfold; and my own place, six score! But that, sir, is partly the farming. 'And the stream has fish? asked Otto. 'A fishpond, said the farmer. 'Ay, it is a pleasant bit.
"It is hardly for me to advise you. But I know how dangerous the life of an opera singer is. I shall pray God that He may watch over you. Promise me always to remember our holy religion. It is the only thing we have that is worth having; all the rest passes." "Father, we were close by the edge of the fishpond, and all the greedy fish swarmed to the surface, thinking we had come to feed them.
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