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Polly asked. "Who? Where?" "Just behind the hedge," whispered Polly. Rose looked, and in an opening at the lower part of the hedge she saw a bit of a dark gray frock. "Oh, it's Evangeline Longfellow Jenks, the little girl that's going to be a poet," whispered Rose. "But you said her poetry was funny," said Polly, as softly as Rose had spoken.
That field was a meadow every year, and once hidden between the hedge and the meadow-grasses a child was invisible to all but the bright-eyed birds, who themselves have a taste for such mysteries, and the corn-crake, which one thinks of as only half bird, that scuttled on Katie's approach down one of a million aisles of seeding brown grasses.
'Ye are all fingers and no tongue, said he; 'I have made a scurvy bargain. Come and hear me patter and flatter. Between the two inns was a high hedge. He goes behind it a minute and comes out a decent tradesman. We went on to the other inn, and then I heard him praise it so fulsome as the very wife did blush. 'But, says he, 'there is one little, little fault; your armories are dull and faded.
"There's a foreign-looking man staring over the hedge," said Lilian; "Bingo always did hate foreigners." There certainly was a swarthy man there, and, though I had no reason for it then, somehow my heart died within me at the sight of him. "Don't be alarmed, sir," cried the colonel; "the dog won't bite you unless there's a hole in the hedge anywhere."
Fräulein Christina Fasch makes good bread, and she is famous for her delicate puddings and sauces; the puzzle is, whence come the groceries, and the extras, and the wines that are consumed in the inn? A mile or so beyond, on a lower spur of the mountain ridge that overlooks the Rhine, a gap comes in the hedge that screens an almost precipitous descent into the broad, flat valley.
An osage hedge, cut back upon its woody stock, stretched about the place either side from the gate. Within, the driveway made a sweep off towards buildings in the rear, while a shell path led up to the house, which was of frame, wide, with porches across the front, up-stairs and down.
It was very dark, but in a moment he caught the tiniest movement over the hedge, and saw a spot a little darker than the rest of the ground about it. Jack, he saw at once had taken the one faint chance there was, dropped down, and crawled away, trusting that their captures had not counted their party, and might not miss the boy. Just in time he slipped through a hole in the hedge.
North of the house, inside the ploughed fire-breaks, grew a thick-set strip of box-elder trees, low and bushy, their leaves already turning yellow. This hedge was nearly a quarter of a mile long, but I had to look very hard to see it at all. The little trees were insignificant against the grass.
Shrig and as he leaned upon his stick I saw his bright glance roving here and there; it flashed along the path before us; it swept the thicker parts of the hedge behind us; it questioned the deepening shadow of the copse. "Aye, here's an end to Number Vun, and if we look in the vood yonder, I fancy we shall see summat o' Number Two.
"In front of her," Faircloth said, his chin still in his hands and eyes gazing away to the Bar "earth and pebbles banked up into a flat-topped mound, upon which stood your shoes filled with sprays of hedge fruit and yellow button-chrysanthemums stolen too, I suppose, from one of the gardens at Lampit. They grow freely there.
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