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He shivered and turned round, half expecting to see Emmie's flushed, exciting face peering up at him. He almost sighed with relief when he found it was Tester. "Look here, just come for a stroll round the courts. The rain's stopped. I want to talk to you." They wandered out under the lindens. "I suppose you did go out last night, didn't you?" "Yes." "What on earth did you do it for?"
"Yes, miss," said the man deferentially. "It's a nasty day outside. I 'spect Chicago'll be mighty wet. De wind's off de lake, and de rain's comin' from all way 'twoncet." She sacrificed one of her precious quarters to get rid of the attentive porter, and started off with a brisk step down the long platform to the station.
Oh, let's go; the rain's stopped," whispered the girl. "You were awfully extravagant this afternoon. Now we're going to take a nice, inexpensive walk up home." She heard him protesting a little at that; then they slid out softly, while poor Joy sat behind her curtains, moveless and aghast.... Oh, was this what she was like ... to real, happy, gay people her own age?
"Not exackly; but, you see, the rain's turned out a few, and some on 'em, folks says, was buried with lots o' goold platted up in their pig-tails. Now, if any money's washed out, there's no harm in a body's pickin' of it up, as I see." "What luck have you had?" asked Gilbert. "Nothin' to speak of; a few buttons, and a thing or two. But I say, Mr. Gilbert, what luck ha' you had?"
"If the rain's before the wind, 'Tis time to take the topsails in; If the wind's before the rain, Hoist your topsails up again." The practical knowledge alluded to, however, comes not by rhymes, but by experience alone, with a kind of intuitive confidence. Many long and hard years of study, and myriads of forgotten trials must have been gone through to give this enviable knowledge.
I was on deck in a moment, and by stopping a scupper as I had done the previous morning presently had by me a far bigger supply of water than I needed; from which I got a good drink lying down to it, and filled an empty bean-tin for another drink after my breakfast, and so had my two bottles full to last me until the next day and was pretty well satisfied by the rain's recurrence that I could count upon a shower every morning about the hour of dawn.
The bell's begun. The rain's coming down very hard, I'm afraid. It's only a step from our door. Your things, dear, as quick as you can." The girl ran upstairs and, stayed by some sudden impulse, stood for a moment before the long mirror.
Rapidly they followed each other, and sometimes the puffs of vapour were exploded together, sometimes separately. For a moment the girl felt puzzled; then she comprehended and laughed. "'Tis the silly auld sheep!" she said to herself. "They 'm shakin 'theer fleeces 'cause they knaw the rain's over-past. Bellwether did begin, I warrant, then all the rest done the same."
Spencer bearing a lighted lamp; and Herrick went forward to relieve her of her burden. "Enter the Lady with the Lamp!" quoth he, smiling. "Well, Mrs. Spencer, the rain's over and gone, and it's time we went too, eh, Mrs. Rose?" "I suppose so." She took up the coat she had thrown aside. "Has the chauffeur had some tea, Mrs. Spencer?"
Rain's the funniest thing in the world. If it sees you got an umberell it won't come within a hunderd miles of you. That's why I got my Sunday clothes on, and my new straw hat. Sometimes that'll bring rain out of a clear sky, that an' a Sunday-school picnic. It's a pity we couldn't have got up a Sunday-school picnic, but then, of course, that wouldn't have done any good.
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