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Updated: June 8, 2025
"We've just come down a chimney again," said the cuckoo. "Open your eyes and clamber down off my back, but don't speak loud, or you'll waken him, and that wouldn't do. There you are the moonlight's coming in nicely at the window you can see your way."
"Here," he went on, giving it back to Avice, "you hold it, and I'll strike a match the moonlight's scarcely strong enough. Now," he continued, taking a box of vestas from his pocket and striking one, "steady 'If Miss Harborough will come up to see Susan Hamthwaite I will tell you something that you might like to know. Ah!" he exclaimed, throwing away the match.
He suddenly paused, and blushed deeply, fearing he had been too bold. The lady blushed also, touched her guitar-strings with a half-abstracted air, and at last sang as if dreamily: "By the spring where moonlight's gleams O'er the sparkling waters pass, Who is sitting by the youth, Singing on the soft green grass?
He was evidently letting off superfluous steam through the safety-valve of a furious pace. Presently the cavalcade came sweeping into the pass, and went crashing through it Rushing River, of course, in advance. No cannon ball was ever stopped more effectually by mountain or precipice than was our Indian chief's career by Moonlight's kerchief and knife.
She folded her hands and sang the next verse dreamily: Where the reeds shake by the river, Where the moonlight's sheen is shed, On the face of the sleeping water, Two leaves of a white flower float dead. Dead, Dead, Dead! She echoed the refrain softly till it died away, and then repeated it.
It's a dirt road, and easier on his horse, the poor crathur " "Thanks. I'll try the pike," said Marchmont, from the doorstep. "Bah! it's turning cold! Had you noticed, father, what exceedingly thin ice you have around this house?" "By all the powers, my son!" answered Father Tierney. "The moonlight's desaving you! That isn't water that's firm ground.
He could not help thinking that his enemy, whoever he was, had not made a happy selection of a spot for an ambuscade, for the moonlight's glare revealed every rock on the other side of the wagon, and the few trees in the wood behind the rocks were far too slender to provide shelter for a man of ordinary size.
He subsided at that, and Froude laughed at him so heartily, that he had not another word to say on the subject all day. Did you ever hear the rhyme about moonlighting? It runs as follows: 'The difference betwixt moonlight and moonshine The people at last understand, For moonlight's the law of the League And moonshine is the law of the land.
Then the chariot began to roll heavenwards towards the moon, and as they all gazed with tearful eyes at the receding Princess, the dawn broke, and in the rosy light of day the moon-chariot and all in it were lost amongst the fleecy clouds that were now wafted across the sky on the wings of the morning wind. Princess Moonlight's letter was carried to the Palace.
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