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from the troupe in full blast! The lawyer Pippin suddenly stood beside the despairing pedler, as this ominous ditty was poured upon the night-winds. "Do you hear that song, Bunce?" he asked. "How do you like the music?" The pedler looked in his face with a mixed expression of grief, anger, and stupidity, but he said nothing. "Hark ye, Bunce," continued the lawyer. "Do you know what that means?
Two or three things strike me much in this fragment; one is the graphic vividness with which the time of the year, the hour of the evening, the feeling of cold and darkness outside, the sound of the night-winds sweeping over the desolate snow-covered moors, coming nearer and nearer, and at last shaking the very door of the room where they were sitting for it opened out directly on that bleak, wide expanse is contrasted with the glow, and busy brightness of the cheerful kitchen where these remarkable children are grouped.
The sun had set, and the night-winds were beginning to croon among the rocks. Dumoise leaned on the railing of the verandah, waiting for his bearer to return. The man came back almost immediately after he had disappeared, and at such a rate that Dumoise fancied he must have crossed a bear. He was running as hard as he could up the face of the hill. But there was no bear to account for his terror.
He was in mortal terror every tree spoke out loud to him; the dark places gave back groans, the night-winds swooped upon him, whispering their terrible fears. The great underground wildcat meowed from the slopes, the red-winged moon-birds shrilled across the sky, and the stone giants from the cliffs rocked and sounded back to White Otter, until he cried aloud: "O Good God, come help me.
The view was always fascinating, bewitching, entrancing. The eye was never tired of gazing, night or day, in calm or storm; it suffered but one grief, and that was that it could not look always, but must close sometimes in sleep. We slept in the sand close to the water's edge, between two protecting boulders, which took care of the stormy night-winds for us.
Nor did the jealous wives instruct the interlopers in the anointing of their bodies with that peculiar kind of clay which forms so effective a protection alike against the burning heat of the sun, the treacherous cold of the night-winds, and the painful attacks of insects.
It was on the lonely ridge, strewn with boulders and swept by night-winds, when the darkness closed in drearily about him, that Jacob, a homeless exile, in the hour of his utmost desolation, saw the ladder whose golden head was set at the very foot of God, thronged with bright messengers of strength and hope.
Starr, walking steadily through the white-lighted barrenness with his shadow always moving like a ghost before him, fitted once more into the desert. Again she repeated mentally the words of the song: Let the night-winds touch thy brow With the breath of my burning sigh, And melt thee to hear the vow Of a love that shall not die!
Then sounded the rattling clang of iron bars but it came from behind us. The bell had ceased to ring; but as we moved slowly on I heard the voice of the padre chanting in a low and solemn key. Then utter silence fell, except the unshod footfall of my bearers and a murmur as of night-winds in the trees. Suddenly an owl hooted overhead, and then I must have fainted.
Such is my life since the old chief made the compact with Mic-co. Come!" she added and led the way to the Indian wagon. "When the night-winds call," she said wistfully, "I grow restless for I am happiest in the lodge of Mic-co. Then the old chief bids me travel to the world of white men and sell." There was gentle pathos in her mellow voice.
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