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Osric Dane, overcome by the awful significance of her own meaning, has mercifully veiled it perhaps even from herself as Apelles, in representing the sacrifice of Iphigenia, veiled the face or Agamemnon." "What's that? Is it poetry?" whispered Mrs. Leveret to Mrs. Plinth, who, disdaining a definite reply, said coldly: "You should look it up. I always make it a point to look things up."
Martha's exclamation of surprise and delight at seeing the leveret was the first sound that Stephen heard in the morning; but he preserved a sullen silence as to his absence the previous night, and Martha was too shrewd to press him with questions.
Amid its cool shadows the leveret dwelt in solitude. Her "creeps" were out of sight beneath the arching stalks.
"Is it you, Emile?" said Leah softly, as the lodge door opened and a manly form appeared. "Yes, darling. Thank fortune, your courage has not failed you. I have been feverish with anxiety and impatience for hours. Are you ready, dear?" At these words Leah trembled, and faltered "Yes." "Well, I thought it best to bring the minister with me, and so my friend Bishop Leveret is in the carriage.
For years I was a slave among the Spaniards. Years more in all, twelve and then I came back with the little chart for one thing, this to do for another. Who was it gave me that rogues' march from the stocks to the gallows's foot? It was Hogarth Leveret, who deals out law in Massachusetts in the king's name, by the grace of God.
Unlike the offspring of the rabbit born blind and naked in an underground nest lined with its parent's fur the leveret was covered with down, and her eyes were open, from the hour of birth. Nature had fitted her for an existence in the open air. At first she was suckled by day as well as by night, but as she grew older she seldom felt the want of food till dark.
"Here, ye auld doited deevil," said Caleb, still exulting in his extrication from a dilemma which had seemed insurmountable; "keep the strange man out of the kitchen; swear the thunner came down the chimney and spoiled the best dinner ye ever dressed beef bacon kid lark leveret wild-fowl venison, and what not. Lay it on thick, and never mind expenses.
"I hardly see," she interposed, "how a book steeped in the bitterest pessimism can be said to elevate, however much it may instruct." "I meant, of course, to instruct," said Mrs. Leveret, flurried by the unexpected distinction between two terms which she had supposed to be synonymous. Mrs.
It happened, however, that her first winter was helpful to the welfare of animal life in general. The heavy rains, it is true, greatly distressed the leveret.
The woodchuck seems to be a link between the rabbit and badger; its colour is that of a leveret; it climbs like the racoon and burrows like the rabbit; its eyes are large, full, and dark, the lip cleft, the soles of the feet naked, claws sharp, ears short; it feeds on grasses, grain, fruit, and berries.
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