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They met accordingly in the middle of the Pebble-bank, Pierston coming from the mainland, and the women from the peninsular rock. Crossing the wooden bridge which connected the bank with the shore proper they moved in the direction of Henry the Eighth's Castle, on the verge of the rag-stone cliff.
Ay, this hexameter is of an ancient house, truly, Ned Spenser, and so is many a rogue: but he cannot make way on our rough English roads. He goes hopping and twitching in our language like a three-legged terrier over a pebble-bank, tumble and up again, rattle and crash." "Nay, hear, now 'See ye the blindfolded pretty god that feathered archer, Of lovers' miseries which maketh his bloody game?*
Pine-Avon, she would probably be discovered staying at one of the hotels at the watering-place over the bay, and to have come along the Pebble-bank to the island as so many did, for an evening drive. For the present, however, the explanation was not forthcoming; and he did not seek it.
The boat is swaying off and on against the steep pebble-bank: he clutches at it misses falls headlong rises half-choked with water: but Frank is still in his arms. Another heavy blow a confused roar of shouts, shots, curses a confused mass of negroes and English, foam and pebbles and he recollects no more. He is lying in the stern-sheets of the boat; stiff, weak, half blind with blood.
The canine gnawing audible on the Pebble-bank had been repeated ever since at each tide, but the pebbles remained undevoured. Men drank, smoked, and spat in the inns with only a little more adulteration in their refreshments and a trifle less dialect in their speech than of yore.
It looked as if little Snjolfur was ready for this answer, and indeed his errand was now at an end, but he asked the factor to come out with him round the corner of the store. They went out, the boy in front, and onto the pebble-bank nearby. The boy stopped at a stone lying there, got a grip of it, lifted it without any obvious exertion and heaved it away from him. Then he turned to the factor.
To find other trees between Pebble-bank and Beal, it was necessary to recede a little in time to dig down to a loose stratum of the underlying stone-beds, where a forest of conifers lay as petrifactions, their heads all in one direction, as blown down by a gale in the Secondary geologic epoch. Dusk had closed in, and he now proceeded with what was, after all, the real business of his sojourn.
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