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He would go and help those distracted plucked geese to grow new feathers. Only to do so meant time, labour, unremitting application, a wholesale sacrifice of leisure; so he must see Poppy St. John first. "I did not call yesterday," Iglesias said, "in consequence of your prohibitory telegram.
Chichikov reassured his hostess on the point, and Madame plucked up courage enough to scan, first of all, the housekeeper, who happened to be issuing from the storehouse with a bowl of honey, and, next, a young peasant who happened to be standing at the gates; and, while thus engaged, she became wholly absorbed in her domestic pursuits. But why pay her so much attention?
But at that word she stood before me, white, breathless, dishevelled, struggling for speech. 'Oh, yes, yes! she panted eagerly. 'I know I know! And she thrust her hand into her bosom and plucked something out and gave it to me forced it upon me. 'I know I know! she said again. 'Take it, and God reward you, Monsieur! God reward you! We give it freely freely and thankfully!
My sorrow seems to have plucked me with a strong hand out of the swirling drift of cares, anxieties, ambitions, hopes; and I see now that I could not have rescued myself; that I should have gone on battling with the current, catching at the river wrack, in the hopes of saving something from the stream.
Hereupon I plucked up a heart, and answered that that would be the greatest joy to me, especially if I could be burnt to-morrow with my child. Hereunto he made no answer, but clapped to the door behind me. Well, clap the door as thou wilt, I greatly fear that the just God will one day clap the doors of heaven in thy face!
Having crossed over to a woody island some distance from the shore, the party sat down to a repast, when large bowls of pomba were served out. They then took a walk among the trees, the ladies apparently enjoying themselves and picking fruit, till, unhappily, one of the most attractive of them plucked a fruit and offered it to the king, thinking, probably, to please him.
Silver hobbled, grunting, on his crutch; his nostrils stood out and quivered: he cursed like a madman when the flies settled on his hot and shiny countenance; he plucked furiously at the line that held me to him, and, from time to time, turned his eyes upon me with a deadly look. Certainly he took no pains to hide his thoughts; and certainly I read them like print.
"Columbines," she mused, wistfully, as she plucked several of the flowers and held them up to gaze wonderingly at them, as if to see in them some revelation of the mystery that shrouded her birth and her name. Then she stood with dreamy gaze upon the distant ranges. "Columbine!... So they named me those miners who found me a baby lost in the woods asleep among the columbines."
"A gentleman, I hope," said Mr. Caryll urbanely. "What are you?" "I'll learn you," said his lordship, and plucked at his sword. "I see," said Mr. Caryll in the same quiet voice that thinly veiled his inward laughter "a bully!" With more oaths, my lord heaved himself forward. Mr. Caryll was without weapons. He had left his sword above-stairs, not deeming that he would be needing it at a wedding.
"I don't believe you," said the master, and was going to get into a rage when Jack said to him: "Keep cool, master, keep cool." So he went with Jack to the marsh, and when he saw the pigs' tails all peeping out the marsh he went and plucked one of them out of the ground, and Jack said: "There, you've torn the tail from the poor pig's back."
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