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The road, like some familiar dream, wound at last into the village. Down the street where her childish feet had pattered in their playing, by the old town pump, where, coming home from school, she used to drink the cool, clear water on summer noons, she passed, a silent shadow. She might have been the ghost of some dead life, so moveless was her face. She stopped at last, looking about her.
Then her anger mounting, "You talk about sneaking! That's because you've sneaked and followed us!" "Y're too young t' have any whipper-snapper trailin' 'round with y' noons, 'r any other time," declared Barber. "My mother married when she was seventeen!" retorted Cis. "It'll be time enough for y' t' be thinkin' o' beaus when y're twenty," went on Big Tom, quietly. She stood up.
A flock's journey is seven miles, ten if pasture fails, in a windless blur of dust, feeding as it goes, and resting at noons. Such hours Pete weaves a little screen of twigs between his head and the sun the rest of him is as impervious as one of his own sheep and sleeps while his dogs have the flocks upon their consciences.
"Make him a bookrack. Mr. Derry will draw you the design, and you can carve it out. You can do it noons after you eat your luncheon, then you won't lose any time building the house." "That's jest what I'll do. So with the fee saved and the cheer and table out, I kin paper the rooms. You find out what kind Lily Rose wants and help her pick it out."
It was one of those lovely noons towards the end of May in which a rural suburb has the mellow charm of summer to him who escapes awhile from the streets of a crowded capital.
Then on Sunday noons, as the people ate their dinners together in a room adjoining the church, all that she said and did was talked over and over, how quickly she had gained the victory of submission, the peace of a will united with God's, mixed with harmless gossip of the sick chamber, as to what she ate and how she slept, and who had sent her gruel with raisins in it, and who jelly with wine, and how she had praised this and eaten that twice with a relish, but how the other had seemed to disagree with her.
He thought of his brothers in different grades from himself, though in the same building. "Is there them that makes it hot for 'em when they can?" he said anxiously to himself. "We'll have to be stayin' more together mornin's and noons and recesses, so we will." But staying together did not avail.
From the wing of the house I heard my cousin singing in the thin and plaintive falsetto of a mountaineer; he often sang in that manner, and when he did so his voice always gave me a feeling of unusual melancholy as it broke the stillness of the late September noons. He sang over and over the same old refrain: "Ah! Ah! The good, good story. . . ." Here he always broke off and recommenced.
That thought shook him in the burning nights: the sweat poured from him and he trembled with cold, in the burning noons at that thought. He had no minute's rest; his bowels turned round and round within him: his tongue was perpetually dry and it seemed to him that the breath between his teeth was like air from a pest-house. He gave no thought to Leonora at all; he had sent in his papers.
had died on bare brown stubble-fields and vine-veined hill-sides, purple with clustering grapes on leafless branches; and wintry days had come, with sleety morns and chill, crisp noons, and scarlet sunset banners flouting the silver stars in western skies, where the shivering, gasping old year had woven, "One strait gown of red Against the cold."
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