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"Do you know where we're going?" asked Hermia then. "No, I don't. I never know where I'm going. But I'm sure of one thing. We must make some money at once." "We'll follow Cleofonte to Alenon then," said Hermia resolutely. So Markham prodded the donkey and they moved forward at a brisker pace.
"Caged rats give little sport, and he might be tracked. For my part, I would leave his judgment to God. Have you no other way, Inez?" She thought a while, then prodded the Fray Henriques with her foot, saying: "Get up, sainted secretary to the Holy Office, and do a little writing, which will be easy to you. See, here are pens and paper. Now I'll dictate: "'Most Adorable Inez,
What the secret of the man's power, or why the schoolteacher who sat on Miss Buffum's right should have become suddenly hilarious, or how Miss Buffum herself could be prodded or beguiled into smiles, no one at my end of the table could understand; and yet, as the days went by, it became more and more evident that not only were these two cold, brittle exteriors being slowly thawed out, but that every one else within the sound of his seductive voice was yielding to his influence.
"Now, Padre," said Verena, "if you don't wake and rouse yourself, and act like a decent Christian, you'll be just prodded you'll be just shaken. We will do it. There are eight of us, and we'll make your life a burden." "Eh eh!" said Mr. Dale. "Really, girls, you are enough to startle a man. And you say " "I say, Paddy, that Miss Sophia Tredgold is on her way here.
Big land companies which had already exploited colonization schemes in the western states pricked up their ears and sent agents to spy out the land. Those agents may have deluded themselves that they went to Canada secretly; it is a safe wager that Sifton's agents prodded them to activity at one end and Sifton's agents caught and piloted and plied them with facts at the other end.
The man eyed him narrowly; then cautiously he dropped into an attitude of exaggerated indifference. "It sure is young feller. Now you hain't been watchin' that there leadin' lady more particularly, have you? I sort o' cal'ate she might have a takin' way with the fellers," and he prodded the tinker with a jocular thumb. The tinker responded promptly with a foolish grin.
Then came great herds of cattle raising thick, whirling clouds of dust in the narrow parts of the road, prodded on by the sticks and yells of the shepherds in kepis. His thoughts kept him wakeful all night.
I dreamt it, I tell you, and there's second sight in the family. 'Yes, but you should tell what you did dream, Janet, said her sister. 'She thought Robinson, the coachman, was waltzing with her over it, and they went into a hole and stuck fast, while the red-flag traction engineman prodded her with an umbrella till she was all over blood.
The horse threw himself down in the furrow. Dad took the scraper again, welted him on the rump, dug it into his back-bone, prodded him in the side, then threw it at him disgustedly. Then Dad sat down awhile and breathed heavily. He rose again and pulled Smith's horse by the head. He was pulling hard when Dave and Joe came up.
One moment we were in the aisles of that great green cathedral, the next there was an open road and the sunlight and houses. We prodded the horses with our heels and raced down the road. Surprised inhabitants came out and stared. We waved to them; we loved them; we loved houses and dogs and cows and apple trees. But most of all we loved level places.
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