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Updated: May 5, 2025
I felt a certain delicacy after that about intruding on his solitude with the burden of my sex and wifehood heavy upon me, but he always seems very glad to see me, and runs at once to his fowlhouse to look for fresh eggs for my tea; so perhaps he regards me as a pleasing exception to the rule.
One minute later an unsuspected martial hawk-eagle precipitated himself out of a big, hoary, old fig-tree, a hundred yards away from the fowlhouse, on to one of the genets' disappearing tails.
The Bordelais believe in the respectability of no travelling motives under heaven that are not commercial. My bedroom that night had much the character of an outhouse or fowlhouse. It was on the ground-floor, and the rafters overhead sloped rapidly towards the exterior wall. A small low window opened upon the garden.
This he did; but because I would not pay him for his news, he left me in a mood of vindictiveness. When the fire was over, he joined his comrade. The favourable hour of the night suggested to them the possibility of some unlawful gain before daylight came. My fowlhouse stood in a tempting position, and still resenting his repulse during the evening, one of them proposed to operate upon my birds.
There was no sign of the others; but that was not strange, for the hares and the rabbits had probably gone round to the kitchen-garden, for which they were making in their extremity of hunger; and the otter and the fox were, most likely, keeping each other off the fowlhouse.
They come down like ellum-branches in still weather. No warnin' at all. Muriel, my bicycle's be'ind the fowlhouse. I'll tell Dr. Dallas, ma'am." She trundled off on her wheel like a brown bee, while Sophie heaven above and earth beneath changed walked stiffly home, to fall over George at his letters, in a muddle of laughter and tears. "It's all quite natural for them," she gasped.
For this reason, then, and a few others, he felt no special delight in sighting, about two hundred yards farther on at a place where two stacks surrounded by rails stood and sheltered a fowlhouse a baker's dozen of fowls sunning themselves on the hedge-bank. He held for fowls all the wild creatures' contempt for the tame or domestic.
At daybreak a boy, the son of Ratcliff, the signal man, started out to look for his goats, and as they sometimes passed the night in the old fowlhouse, he looked in for them. But instead of the goats, he saw the naked cabin boy. "Who are you?" he said, "and what are you doing here, and where did you come from?" "I have been shipwrecked," replied the cabin boy; and then he sat up and began to cry.
But the genets had other and private business, and they parted from the mongoose with no more than a snarl, the two genets to appear next or, rather, to be no more than guessed at crossing the last stretch of moonlight between them and the fowlhouse.
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