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This frugal fare was washed down with water drawn from little flat barrels or canteens, while they commented lightly, grumblingly, or laughingly, according to temperament, on the poor condition of the lode at which they wrought. We have already said that in mining, as in other things, fortune fluctuates, and it was "hard times" with the men of Botallack at that period.
So he had followed Niekerk grumblingly down the mountain pass leading to the Low Country, and had been wasting his pessimism on the desert air of the Crocodile River Valley for several weeks before our arrival. Game was here more plentiful. I borrowed Niekerk's rifle and shot a waterbuck and several klipspringers.
"Oh, she like enough got some beau back in the States," said another, grumblingly. "Yes, er up to Ellis," said Pinky, sagely. "Thet lawyer feller up there, he come down to the ranch twict when I was there, and I 'low he's shinin' round some." "Well, I dunno," said the other, argumentatively, as though to classify lawyers and cow-punchers in much the same category. "But, pshaw!" continued Pinky.
And, finally, the captain, grumblingly, assented. If Olive had been a girl brought up in a gentle-minded household, knowing nothing of the varied life she had lived when a navy girl; sometimes at this school and sometimes at that; sometimes in her native land, and sometimes in the midst of frontier life; sometimes with parents, and sometimes without them; and, had she been less aware from her own experiences and those of others, that this is a world in which you must stand up very stiffly if you do not want to be pushed down; she might have sunk, at least for a time, under all this publicity and blame.
Toward morning I clambered grumblingly up the narrow, almost perpendicular sides of the rift that cut into the rocky watch-tower. I did not believe in pirates and was willing to take my chances in sleep.
Rothesay's gentle patience to humour Olive's enthusiasm, by maintaining the very arduous position of an artist's model. "Alcestis" was getting thoroughly weary of her duties, when they were interrupted by an advent rather rare at Woodford Cottage, that of the daily post Vanbrugh grumblingly betook himself to the substitute of a lay figure and drapery, while Mrs.
In the corridor the latter glanced back. "Better turn out the light," he said. "They've been after the fellows lately about leaving it burning." Grumblingly Steve stepped back and snapped the switch. "Who's monitor here, anyhow?" he asked. "Upton," answered Tom. "And they say he's right on his job, too." "He would be," growled the other. "He's a regular teacher's pet."
Now then " as Darvil spoke he seized his daughter in his arms; threw over her a shawl and a cloak that lay at hand, and was already on the threshold. "I don't half like it," said Walters, grumblingly "it been't safe." "At least it is as safe as murder!" answered Darvil, turning round, with a ghastly grin. "Make haste."
If ever a breath hath come to me of the creative breath, and of the heavenly necessity which compelleth even chances to dance star-dances: If ever I have laughed with the laughter of the creative lightning, to which the long thunder of the deed followeth, grumblingly, but obediently: If ever I have played dice with the Gods at the divine table of the earth, so that the earth quaked and ruptured, and snorted forth fire-streams:
"Well, I'd see myself turning down a good offer for Old Tom Fillmore," said Jacob Green. "It isn't for Mr. Fillmore it's for myself," said Ellis steadily. "I promised and I must keep my word." Jacob drove away grumblingly. On the road he met Timothy Robinson and stopped to relate his grievances.
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