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"Hope you've got an umbrella!" he said to her cheerily, as he passed. "The rain's coming!" She smiled, pleased like all the world to be addressed with that Winningtonian manner which somehow implied that the person addressed was, for the moment at any rate, his chiefest concern.
Colonel Dodge's Brigade contended in the morning directly with Rain's and Clark's Divisions, both immediately under the direction of Sterling Price. The latter had his position for some time behind young Clarke's battery. The enemy fired wagon-nuts, pieces of chain, marble, gravel, and all sorts of projectiles.
"I don't know," he said, as if in answer to a silent questioning. Then he told Shoop to look for tracks. "The rain's fixed the tracks," said Shoop, turning in the doorway. "But it ain't drowned out my guess on this proposition." "Well, keep guessing, Bud, till I talk to Sundown." And Corliss walked slowly to the bunkhouse. He sat on the edge of the bunk and laid his hand on Sundown's sleeve.
"Poor child, it would be cruel to send her alone to-night into her own quarters." And Mali slipped a pillow of mulberry paper under her mistress's head, and laid it on her own lap, and bent down to watch her. But outside, beyond the line, the natives murmured loud their discontent. "The Queen of the Clouds stays in the King of the Rain's hut to-night," they muttered, angrily.
Banks against drawing-rooms for me, Madame Zabriska." He brought her into the conversation almost with tact; he must have had a strong wish to make her comfortable. "That's right," announced Theo. "I should say you're all right in the country too. Crops pretty good, you know, and the rain's comin' down just nicely." "Well, I ordered it," said Mr Disney.
'I'm a-cold, she said; 'the rain's cleared, and there'll be a duck's frost to-night. Abel looked up absently, humming the air he intended to play next. 'I bin in the Callow, and I've gotten a primmyrose, continued Hazel, accustomed to his ways, and not discouraged. 'And I got a bit of blackthorn, white as a lady. Abel was well on in 'Ap Jenkyn' by now.
'I don't know that, replied Sponge, 'the rain's come down, and though the country will ride heavy, I don't see why we shouldn't have sport after it. 'But the glass is falling, and the wind's gone round the wrong way; the moon changed this morning everything, in short, indicates continued wet, replied Jawleyford.
"I'd as soon not have my flaish creep down the spine 'pon Sundays as not," confessed Thomasin, "but Michael's Michael, an' so all's said." Uncle Chirgwin went to smoke a pipe and water his horse at this juncture; but he returned within less than ten minutes. "It's blowin'," he said, "an' the fust skew o' gray rain's breakin' over the sea. I knawed 'twas comin' by my corns.
I was tryin' to think what I could do to make this house fit fer her to stay in; fer, you see, stranger, they's no movin' on tell to-morry, fer though the rain's stopped, I 'low you can't git that buggy over afore to-morry mornin'. But blam'd ef 'ta'n't too bad fer sech as her to stay in sech a cabin!
Larcher's feelings toward the person named Edna has already been deduced by the reader. It was a state which made the young man plunge into the weather with gladness, dash to Sixth Avenue with no sense of the rain's discomfort, mentally check off the streets with impatience as he sat in a north-bound car, and finally cover with flying feet the long block to the Savoy Hotel.
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