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Updated: May 2, 2025
"I fired at the alligator," said Brace, turning to his brother with a half-startled look. "Yes, and scared that big snake," said Briscoe. "He was having a nap tied up in a knot on some big branch. I've seen 'em sometimes hanging over the side in thick folds. You tumbled him over with the startling. Warning to him to take a turn round the branch with his tail."
He entered in the dusk; a little pale, with his graceful head thrown back, and that half-startled, timid look in his wide, blue eyes that misleading look which made him the boy still, when he chose. Julie was standing near the window as he came in. As she turned and saw him there, a flood of tenderness and compunction swept over her. He was going away. What if she never saw him again?
The boy went to the window and, leaning upon the sill, began to hum softly a sort of chant, while he watched a lizard running hither and thither in the sun. As he hummed, the old man listened, and presently, with his medicines in his hands and a half-startled look, he came over to the lad. "What are you humming?" he asked. The lad answered: "A song of the wood-cutters."
Moved as she was, Cally could have smiled at that. But when she saw the intense honesty of his face, which still wore that half-startled yet shining look, the look of a man with a sudden secret all his own, she did not smile, and her own thought was given quite a new course.
The girl rose, and as she did so the trio from the Prescott machine noticed the island dweller's eyes fixed on her in a curious way. "Pardon me," he said, "but is your name Regina?" The girl looked at him in a half-startled way, while Peggy, as she said afterward, felt as if she was watching a drama. "Yes," she said; "why?"
All day her strange feeling was as if an enveloping shell had, somewhere lately, been chipped from about her, revealing to her half-startled gaze a horizon far wider than any guessed before. By the new summonings that made music in her heart, by these undreamed aspirations and reaching affections, there was the thrilling seeming that always heretofore she had lived in some dull half-deadness.
Presently some passing thought too bitter for absolute self-control, crossed the old man's mind, and he bowed down his gray head for a moment upon his folded hands; but the next instant glanced round with the half-startled look of a man who fears he has betrayed himself.
Evidently he had no relish for the rôle which he was to play in this tense drama. "Travis, step forward!" commanded Britz. The newcomer stepped into the center of the room, a timorous, shrinking figure, pale and haggard. At sight of him Luckstone gave a half-startled gasp. A violent tremor traveled down Beard's frame.
She found the entrance, but a crowd of curious Boers collected about the door daunted her somewhat, and she was turning back from their staring eyes when Burke Ranger suddenly strode through the group and joined her. She gave him a quick, half-startled glance as they met, and the first thing that struck her about him was the obvious fact that he had shaved.
"And who would find a husband for a portionless bride?" asked King Charles. "May it please Your Majesty," began Hortense; but the words trembled unspoken on her lips. There was a flutter among the ladies. The queen turned and rose. A half-startled look of comprehension came to her face. And out stepped Mistress Hortense from the group behind.
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