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She was in her night-dress and nothing more, and even this garment was not sufficiently fastened; her black hair was tumbling loose about her shoulders, and she pattered here and there across the stone floor on her bare feet. He began to chide her, rather irritably. "You little fool, do you want to catch a chill as well so's to make two invalids instead of one? Here, put on my jacket."
"Who are you?" Sofia demanded in a breath. A bob of courtesy, wholly charming, prefaced a reply pattered in English of quaintest accent: "You' handmaiden Chou Nu is my name." "My handmaiden!" "Les, Plincess Sofia." "But I don't understand. How when ?" "Las' night Numbe' One he send for me, but when I come you go-sleep." "Number One?"
Greatorex, in his patent leather shoes and immaculate white gaiters, pattered over to Miss Levering, but she unkindly presented her back, and sat down at the writing-table to make a note on the abhorred Shelter plan. He showed his disapproval by marching off with Mr. Freddy, and there was a general trickling back into the garden in that aimless, before-luncheon mood. But Mrs.
Like a rubber-tired automobile she rolled along the street, while, not a bad second immaculate, silent, spatted, creased, silk-hatted, gloved, and lavender-tied pattered her small husband.
She turned away again, and went on with her work. But by-and-by as she stooped over the fire a tear fell and pattered audibly in the wood-ash on the hearth; and another. With an impatient gesture she wiped away a third. He saw all she made no attempt to hide them and he bit his lip and drove his finger-ends into his palms in the effort to be silent. Presently he had his reward.
When Embarka was out of the way Lella Mabrouka, in her night robe, pattered softly to Sanda's closed door and knocked. No answer. She peeped in and saw the room empty.
The thunder muttered and grumbled, the lightning now and then flashed, and a few rain-drops pattered against the windows; but, for a long time, the shower held off.
"Nevertheless, were I as thou," said the knight, "I would take my walk by moonlight, when foresters and keepers were warm in bed, and ever and anon, as I pattered my prayers, I would let fly a shaft among the herds of dun deer that feed in the glades Resolve me, Holy Clerk, hast thou never practised such a pastime?"
A dreary raindrip pattered through the leaky roof and the soaked parchment tacked across the window opening flapped monotonously against the pine logs. Unfastening the moon-shaped medallion, which my uncle had given me, I slowly spelled out the Nor'-Westers' motto "Fortitude in Distress." "For-ti-tude in Dis-tress," I repeated idly. "By Jove, Hamilton, we need it, don't we?"
All day long a dropping fire was maintained on the entrance, by the troops behind the first stockade; but as, with the exception of three men kept always on watch, the defenders were stationed in the next chamber, the bullets pattered harmlessly against the wall.
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