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A bank, pitted with rabbit-holes, a space of stony lane with a pole at its farther end, and Nad Wood was a thing of the past.
But my own cousin Bob was coming home one night from a bit of sweethearting at Pebbleridge, when, to save the risk of rabbit-holes in the dark, for he put out his knee-cap one time, what does he do but take the path inland through the wood below Carne Castle the opposite side to where you was, Master Cheeseman, and the same side as the moon would be, only she wasn't up that night.
"But our Samson said he had been in them; and if they were no bigger than rabbit-holes, he couldn't have done that. Let's go and see." "Bother! I had enough of poking about in that damp old passage, and all for nothing. I thought we were going to find the way in there." "Well, so we did." "But I mean the other end." "Bother, bother! what's the good!" "How do I know? It's very curious.
The dogs were recalled from the rabbit-holes and came, their faces covered with sand, and the boat was pushed off from the shore. Half-way across the firth, Marjorie turned and looked back regretfully. 'What a pity we have to go home, she said. 'It would be awfully jolly to spend all night in the cottage. 'Look to your oar, Marjorie, sang out Allan, for the boat was beginning to turn round.
First went the Tramp, shining and glowing like a mirror in the sunshine fire surely in him; next Judy, almost flying with the joy and lightness in her as of air; Tim barely able to keep tight hold of her hand, so busily did his feet love the roots and rabbit-holes of earth; and finally, Uncle Felix, rolling to and fro, now sideways, now toppling headlong, roaring as he followed like a heavy wave.
He had been looking at her, and thinking how few women could have disagreed with him as quietly and resolutely as this young girl riding at his side, carefully avoiding chance rabbit-holes as she spoke.
And they walked on among the bracken, knee-high already, between the rabbit-holes and the oak-trees, talking of Jolly. He left her two hours later at the Richmond Hill Gate, and turned towards home. 'She knows of my feeling for her, then, he thought. Of course! One could not keep knowledge of that from such a woman! Jolly was tired to death of dreams.
But take heed, you and your precious defenders, I warn you that in an hour the house of Marnhoul shall be flaming over your heads with a torch that shall bring out, not your pitiful burghers from their rabbit-holes, but also the men of half a county. "Hear me," he raised his voice suddenly to a strident shout, "hear me all you within the house.
He remembers the drains on the different farms in which the hunted animal may possible take refuge, and has a memory even for rabbit-holes. His eye becomes accustomed to distinguish the form of a moving horseman over half-a-dozen fields; and let him see but a cap of any leading man, and he will know which way to turn himself. His knowledge of the country is correct to a marvel.
Presently he began to explore the hollow, poking into all the rabbit-holes with his stick. Christopher sat silent, which was a mistake, for it left her irritation but one object on which to expend itself, and after all it was Geoffry who should have tried to please her by sitting still.
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