hilloop

Updated: May 6, 2025

Never had any man's voice sounded to her so like a god's as this stout blacksmith's "hilloop! hilloop!" close and loud in her ear, and those at the end of the line hallooed "hillo-op; hillo-op!" like an echo; and so they passed on, through bush and brier, till their voices died away in the distance. A boy detached himself from the line, and ran to Lady Bassett with a traveling rug.

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