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Better wait for the stretcher. She turned, suddenly, arrested. The noise she heard was not the grating noise of a car backing, it was the scream of a car getting away; it dropped to a heavy whirr and diminished. She looked out. Up the road she saw John's car rushing furiously towards Ghent. The Belgian had heard it. His eyes moved. Black hare's eyes, terrified.
It hadn't seen me, though, for it was not running away, but skulking along slowly nearly crosswise to the course of the hare's track and looking in a different direction to that in which I was. I was well screened behind the bushes, and that, no doubt, prevented it from noticing me. At first I thought of running forward, and setting Marengo after it.
The time passed, but Hare's interest in the breaking of the stallion never flagged. He began to understand the Indian, and to feel what the restraint and drag must be to the horse. Never for a moment could Silvermane elude the huge roan, the tight halter, the relentless Navajo.
I put my hand down upon this dark object to ascertain what it could possibly be, and found that I had got hold of a hare's head! I saw many of these little animals in the course of the night.
There was not the faintest trace of awkwardness about her, yet Shelton could not help a certain sense of shock. If she she did not think things were what they ought to be in a bad way things must be indeed! "Things!" he muttered. Mrs. Dennant looked at him firmly but kindly with the eyes that would remind him of a hare's. "She showed me some of your letters, you know.
All who held the highest social or ecclesiastical positions were then placed; and the rest as seemed good, the men on one side, the women on another, and the children, often on a low bench outside the pews, where they were kept in order by the tithing man, who, at the first symptom of wandering attention, rapped them over the head with his hare's foot mounted on a stick, and if necessary, withdrew them from the scene long enough for the administration of a more thorough discipline.
Just at this time a roast hare was on the table; I noticed that Krespel carefully removed every particle of meat from the bones on his plate, and was most particular in his inquiries after the hare's feet; these the Professor's little five-year-old daughter now brought to him with a very pretty smile.
And there was no chance about it, for it was he himself who said to the head-master the first evening he came to the school: "Signor Director, do me the favor to place me in the seat of 'my hare's face." For he always calls his son so.
"What the deuce is a-gate now?" called out the followers of Mr. Carlyle. "That's Levison! Has he been in a railway smash, and got drenched by the engine?" "He has been ducked!" grinned the yellows, in answer. "They have been and ducked him in the rush pool on Mr. Justice Hare's land."
She had sense enough to conclude that her thirty seven years, hare's eyes, daubed nose, shrill voice, and black skin, stood no chance against two elegant young girls, in all the height and bloom of beauty; she resolved, therefore, nether to betray nor assist them, choosing rather to lose me entirely than entertain me for them.
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