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Updated: May 23, 2025
Then he gazed downwards again, straining his eyes to pierce the mist, his ears to hear a sound. But nothing came upwards from that mighty abyss save the now more distinct lapping of the billows round the boulders, for the tide was rapidly setting in.
And at that instant, in a lull between two gusts, his ear caught the sound of splashing, yet a sound so unlike the lapping of the driven tide that he peered over and down between the tamarisk boughs. "Hullo there!" "Hullo!" a voice answered. "Is that someone alive? Here, mate for Christ's sake!" "Hold on! Whereabouts are you?" "Down in this here cruel water." The words ended in a shuddering cough.
The thatched roofs consist, as usual in this country, of large palm leaves braided together, one layer lapping over another, thus effectually excluding even equatorial rains. The eaves come within three or four feet of the ground. There are no chimneys nor windows in these primitive abodes, but the doors, which are always open, admit light and air.
How she loved the lapping of the water! Within her was a welling up of feeling, a love for all things living. It was a very quiet world just now; the sun was only a little over the zenith. Only the cries of the sea gulls and the soft swish of the waves broke the silence.
And Mistress Jean said not a word as I took her hand in mine, but her face was mantled in scarlet and her eyes were downcast. The prim old garden of the Nicholsons never looked more charming, the flowers more sweet and beautiful, or the green boxwood hedges more suggestive of rest and repose; the lazy waters of the Chester rolled along at its foot, gently lapping the grass.
The clawes thrust through they let hang upon the cheeke to the full view, and some of their men there be who will weare in these holes a small greene and yellow-couloured live snake, neere half a yard in length, which crawling and lapping himself about his neck oftentymes familiarly, he suffreeth to kisse his lippes. Others weare a dead ratt tyed by the tayle, and such like conundrums."
Down the first turning a miserable cottage stood three feet deep in the water. Out jumped the curate with the painter in his hand, and opened the door. On the bed, over the edge of which the water was lapping, sat a sickly young woman in her night-dress, holding her baby to her bosom.
'It's hungry! cried Zinaida. 'Vonifaty, Sonia! bring some milk. A maid, in an old yellow gown with a faded kerchief at her neck, came in with a saucer of milk and set it before the kitten. The kitten started, blinked, and began lapping. 'What a pink little tongue it has! remarked Zinaida, putting her head almost on the ground and peeping at it sideways under its very nose.
"No; it 's only an ugly old dog!" responded Susy, losing all interest at once, and descending with a bounce. "He's mad! and Jud's gone to get his gun, so we can shoot him!" called out one mischievous boy, resenting the contempt expressed for their capture. "Ain't, neither!" howled another lad from his perch. "Mad dogs won't drink; and this one is lapping out of a tub of water."
The sea-breeze was delicious; the lapping, dazzling stream made sweet music, and the huge cotton-trees with laminar buttresses gave most grateful shade. The island resembles Gambian James multiplied by four or five.
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