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He was struck by hearing that the dream of Christian's adventures had visited that same tinker, whose congregation his own wicked practices had broken up. "He would take me for one of the hobgoblins that beset Master Christian." "Nay," said Mrs. Woodford, "he would say you were Christian floundering in the Slough of Despond, and deeming yourself one of its efts or tadpoles."
Do you know what it is to pursue the sylph, and touch her flying skirts, think you have caught her, and are sure of her that she is yours, the rapturous evanescent darling! when some well-meaning earthly wretch interposes and trips you, and off she flies and leaves you floundering? A lovely melody nearly grasped and lost in this fashion, tries the temper.
But instead of finding her at the door, as he had expected, he saw her already a long way up the street, flying like the wind. He started in keen pursuit. He was now a great lumbering boy, and although Annie's wind was not equal to his, she was more fleet. She took the direct road to Howglen, and Rob kept floundering after her.
How the others weathered it I can't say; we rolled so badly that we carried away our mainmast and half our bulwarks, and when day broke we could see nothing of the rest. We were lying floundering there in the trough of the sea, with nothing left but a storm-jib to keep her head straight, and all hands at the pumps; for in working she had opened her old seams, and leaked like a basket.
"It's pretty soft in the muskeg; I believe he got his head in, and by the way he's floundering it looks as if he couldn't see." He paused and waved his hand in genial farewell. "Good-night, boys! I'm sorry I have to leave you; but considering everything, I think I'll take the trail." Then he turned and moved down the track, vanishing into the growing darkness.
What the hell is it your business who I invite to dinner and what do you know about Mukton Lode? Now you go to bed, and damn quick, too! Parkins, put out the lights!" And so ended the great crusade with our knight unhorsed and floundering in the dust.
He took her on his knees as one might lift a child and, sitting with his arm around her and gazing far away, he said: "I had a landslide, Belle. All my church thought and training were swept away in a moment. I was floundering, overwhelmed in the ruin, when I found a big, solid, immovable rock on which I could build again. It was not the Church, it was my mother gave it to me.
Don't jerk, or ye'll tear the net to bits! Rob called out in great excitement. For behold! when they had hauled this great weight up on the shore with a final swoop, there was something there that almost bewildered them a living mass of fish floundering about in the wet seaweed some springing into the air others flopping out on to the sand many helplessly entangled in the meshes.
At eight o'clock on the morning of Saturday, July 20, the river carried them to a wide lagoon, lapped by a tide, with the seaweed waving for miles along the shore. Morning fog still lay on the far-billowing ocean. Sea otters tumbled over the slimy rocks with discordant cries. Gulls darted overhead; and past the canoe dived the great floundering grampus. There was no mistaking.
In a short time Sam returned and reported that their pursuers were floundering about in a valley several miles away. They had evidently lost the trail, and it would take them some time to find it again. "Will they keep on following us?" Jean asked. "A-ha-ha," Sam replied. "Stop bimeby, mebbe. See?" and he laid his hand upon his musket. "Will you shoot them?" "Mebbe. Bimeby."
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