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If it hadn't been for me throwing the two bags of cat slap in his eye and hauling Robert over a railing, and lying like mice under a laurel-bush Well, it's jolly lucky I'm a good shot, that's all. He pranced off when he'd got the cat-bags off his face thought we'd bolted. And here we are. The gentle samishness of the milk swishing into the hand-bowl seemed to have soothed the burglar very much.
They seemed to be having such a very good time up there that she would have liked to listen to them forever; besides, she kept thinking she might catch sight of one. But, though she several times saw the vines swaying, or something flashing behind a laurel-bush, she was obliged to go on without really seeing any.
It only needs time and help, and the gift will grow, and people see it; and then the glory and the money will come," cried Emily, quite carried away by her own enthusiasm and good-will. "Could I get any money by these things?" asked Becky, looking at the crumpled paper lying under a laurel-bush. "Of course you could, dear!
Another circumstance in Losely's favour: just outside the door, near a laurel-bush, was found the fag-end of one of those small rose-coloured wax-lights which are often placed in Lucifer-match boxes.
Suffocating with fatigue and grief, he must have come thither for fresh air. Darkness shrouded the charming nook where the streamlet of water falling from the tragic mask into the ancient sarcophagus ever sang its shrill and flute-like song; and the laurel-bush which shaded it, and the bitter box-plants and the orange-trees skirting the paths now formed but vague masses under the blue-black sky.
We knew the underneath of every laurel-bush, the shape of its bunches of darkling branches, the green dust that our small restless bodies rubbed off from its under twigs.
Pybus's maid, shrank back with a Lor bless us, as Alcide ogled her over the laurel-bush; the Miss Bakers, and their mamma, stared with wonder; and presently a crowd began to follow the interesting foreigner, of ragged urchins and children, who left their dirt-pies in the street to pursue him.
The two men shook our hands and hurried away, leaving Thorndyke gazing meditatively at the dingy flower-beds. "A strange and interesting case, this, Jervis," said he, stooping to peer under a laurel-bush. "The inspector is on a hot scent a most palpable red herring on a most obvious string; but that is his business.
And it was so warm, too, beside the big laurel-bush, in the corner where the streamlet of water ever fell with flute-like music from the gaping, tragic mask. "Ah!" repeated Benedetta, "how happy I am! I was stifling upstairs, and my heart felt such a need of space, and air, and sunlight, that I came down here!"
And the carriage rolled away towards St. Launce's. Out rushed Mrs. Smith from behind a laurel-bush, where she had stood pondering. 'Just going to touch my hat to her, said John; 'just for all the world as I would have to poor Lady Luxellian years ago. 'Lord! who is she? 'The public-house woman what's her name? Mrs. Mrs. at the Falcon. 'Public-house woman. The clumsiness of the Smith family!
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