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Updated: May 23, 2025
Ere long, the whispering, and lisping, and tinkling, he himself knew not how, grew to faint and half-scattered words: "'Twixt this way, 'twixt that; 'twixt branches, 'twixt blossoms, come shoot, come twist and twirl we! Sisterkin, sisterkin! up to the shine; up, down, through and through, quick!
"Can't you say what you mean?" cried the puzzled dowager. "If you've any grievance, tell it out; if you've not, don't talk nonsense." But Lady Hartledon, though thus sweetly allured to confession, held her tongue. Her half-scattered senses came back to her, and with them a reticence she would not break.
Then the trap door, relieved of his weight, flew back into place. Sergeant Hal shot down a steep incline, too smooth for him to be able to stay his downward progress. Bump! Sergeant Hal landed at least twenty feet below with a suddenness that jarred all the breath out of him for a moment. Ere he could recover his half-scattered senses he felt himself seized.
Casting a last lingering glance upon the fair beauty of the scene before me, I gathered together my half-scattered prosaic faculties and went indoors to can I ever give you an idea of it? Across a vilely dirty room was stretched a cord upon which were hung to dry, huge and manifold strips of salt meat.
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