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On my retreat she did indeed move her gaze from me, but only to watch M. le Comte as a hound watches a thicket. It was a miracle that none had pounced on him before, so reckless had he been. I perceived with sickening certainty that Mlle. de Tavanne had guessed something amiss. She fairly bristled with suspicion, with knowledge. I waited from breathless moment to moment for announcement.
Chalk without letting him see it. "Peckham Rye is a long way off, certainly," added the indignant Mrs. Chalk, after a pause. "It's a pity you haven't got something better to think of, at your time of life, too." Mr. Chalk flushed. Peckham Rye was one of the nuisances bequeathed by his mother. "I was thinking of the sea," he said, loftily. Mrs. Chalk pounced.
It is true that many of the men hate this war, whereby whole families of brothers and cousins have to leave their homes to fight what they call the "Aristocrats' War," who in their arrogance think to be masters of the whole world. Some newspapers, two weeks old, were brought from Brussels in the evening and we pounced upon them as a starved dog makes for a bone. September 5th, Saturday.
"Oh!" said the Scot, with a superior air, "something much better." And drawing from the pouch which formed an integral part of his costume a note on violet paper highly perfumed, "There," he said, putting it under Ernest's nose, "smell that!" Indelicate friend that he was, Ernest pounced upon the note and took possession of it.
He saw the pack bolt forward, heard the wild clamor that marked their advance, and then caught the exultant strain in their noisy yelpings, as they pounced upon the slain deer. The boy felt more indignant than alarmed. That was his deer, for he had done the stalking up against the wind; nor was he at all disposed to allow those greedy curs a chance to tear the quarry to pieces in their savage way.
When lunch was over I went to one of the charcoal fires, quite in the background, to light a cigarette. An aide-de-camp immediately pounced upon me, with the information that this was not permitted in company with the Empress. It reminded one at once of the ejaculation at Oliver Twist's bedside, 'Ladies is present, Mr.
Ned explained how he had been pounced upon by two men when he was fishing, and told how without a chance to warn his friends, he had been gagged and bound and taken to the headquarters of the smugglers in Canada, just over the border. They went by carriages. Then the Fogers, who, it seemed, were hand in glove with the law violators, saw him, and identified him.
And you may believe the welcome tears came to ease the pain of my seared eyes when my poor lad I had thought him gone past human help took two staggering steps and flung his arms about my neck. Uncanoola gave us no time to come by easy stages to full-wit sanity. In a twinkling he had pounced upon us to crush us one upon the other behind the larger tree.
"You don't believe me?" "I believe you fast enough; oh, yes." "Then why are you angry?" "You might have come to me. Why didn't you come to me?" "Oh, I don't know," Deleah said. The several reasons she could have given it seemed kinder to withhold. He pounced upon her, his eyes blazing. "I don't like these 'secrets' between a man and a girl." Deleah drew back with a little offence.
Snoop was very fond of fish, and made a spring for the one Bert had caught. But the fish was wet and slippery, and no sooner had Snoop pounced on it with her claws than the fish slid across the deck of the houseboat. Snoop slid after it, just as she often slid across the kitchen oilcloth, when she sprang for a piece of string that Flossie or Freddie would pull along to make the cat play.
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