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Updated: June 18, 2025
In the day-time she changed herself into a cat or a night-owl, but in the evening she became like an ordinary woman again. She could entice animals and birds to come to her, and then she would kill and cook them.
All this plunged me into an abyss of reflection. I rolled myself round like a hedgehog on the prickles of my own thoughts. Snatches of music still reached me now and then from the ball-room the clouds floated lonely away above the dim garden. And there I sat, all through the night, up in the tree, like a night-owl, amid the ruins of my happiness.
We don't dote on scrambling politicians; but a man as a true statesman makes a grand figure." I was not thinking of statecraft or the craftsmen. "By Jove!" I exclaimed mentally, "this girl is more beautiful than my 'perfect flower of womanhood. Night-owl that I am, I am just gaining the power to see her clearly as the sun declines."
"Yes, Mister Clancy or Tommie Clancy or Captain Clancy, as it is at times master of an odd vessel now and again but Clancy all the time just Clancy, good-for-nothing Clancy hard drinker reveller night-owl disturber of the peace at best only a fisherman who'll by and by go out and get lost like thousands of the other fishermen before him as a hundred every year do now and have three lines in the paper name, age, birthplace, street and number of his boarding-house, and that will be the end of it.
It was the note of a night-owl, repeated six times. "That's a Comanche signal," said Dan, in almost a whisper. "Ralph, they must be coming now, and if they are, God help us to do our best in repelling their attack!" "Amen!" came almost solemnly from the younger Radbury. "Can you make out anything yet?" "No yes! Somebody is sneaking through the timber toward the river. It's an Indian with a gun!
Although the night before the battle, and within sight of the white steeples of the menaced city, all was quiet and peaceful. The banks of the broad stream were densely wooded, and from them could be heard at times the cry of the whip-poor-will, or the hoot of the night-owl.
"Because," she replied, with a curl of her lip, "the fell King of Morocco is more bloody-minded than a crocodile, but thou gentle as a lamb; his tongue more ominous of ill than that of a screeching night-owl, but thine sweeter than the morning lark; his touch more odious than that of a venomous serpent, but thine more pleasant than that of the curling vine."
Soulless beings simply have no need of spirituality, just as the night-owl has no need of the sun, they are bodies merely, and as bodies perish. As the angel said to the prophet Esdras: "The Most High hath made this world for many, but the world to come for few.
He was sitting on the steps of the porch at Rosehaven with a guitar on his knee, and smiling tenderly into Sally Lou's blue eyes as he sang, "Oh, yes, I ever will be true!" It grew darker and darker. The katydids began their endless quarrel in the trees. A night-owl hooted dismally over in the woods. The children stopped talking, and sat in anxious silence.
Pipes was a natural genius in the composition of discords: he could imitate the sound produced by the winding of a jack, the filing of a saw, and the swinging of a malefactor hanging in chains; he could counterfeit the braying of an ass, the screeching of a night-owl, the caterwauling of cats, the howling of a dog, the squeaking of a pig, the crowing of a cock; and he had learned the war-whoop uttered by the Indians in North America.
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