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Believe me, we had some fun earning that money, especially the Raving Ravens that's the Raven Patrol, you know. We started early Saturday morning, and we knew just where we had to go, because we had a letter from Captain Savage, saying that we should wait in the anchorage off St. George at Staten Island, until he came and got us.
So beautiful was she at the instant with her raven hair blown back by the wind, a glow of colour struck into her pale cheeks by the driving spray, her lips parted in her excitement, and one white hand shading her eyes, that he stood beside her with all his thoughts bent upon her grace and her sweetness. "Look!" she cried. "There is something floating upon the sea.
For himself, he was relieved at the warming tone, but it mysteriously hurt him, it seemed so horrible that all the tenderness of which it was witness had to be dammed in her with no outlet save over the child who was "not right." Tenney paid no attention to her, and Raven took him by the arm. The snow was reddening thinly and Raven could see the cut in the boot. "Open the door," he said to Tira.
This, of course, is in the strictest confidence." The hairdresser was at once struck with the importance of the occasion. "You want an instantaneous dye?" he asked. "Certainly," Ralph said, "and one that will last, at any rate, for a week." There was no difficulty whatever in complying with the request and, in ten minutes, the boys' heads were raven in their blackness.
‘Then I’ll content myself with admiring this magnificent prospect.’ She made no objection to this; and, for some time, sketched away in silence. But I could not help stealing a glance, now and then, from the splendid view at our feet to the elegant white hand that held the pencil, and the graceful neck and glossy raven curls that drooped over the paper.
At any rate, we could have shone in Fordingbridge. I never quite knew, either, how she and Edward got rid of Jimmy. I fancy that fat and disreputable raven must have had his six golden front teeth knocked down his throat by Edward one morning whilst I had gone out to buy some flowers in the Rue de la Paix, leaving Florence and the flat in charge of those two.
"What d'ye s'pose I come home for, this time o' day?" "Why," said Tira, in an innocent good faith, "I s'posed you come back to spy on me." That did take hold of him. He looked at her in an almost childish reproach. Now he put the foot to the ground he had been, though unconsciously, easing it but at the first step winced and his face whitened. "God A'mighty!" Raven heard him mutter, and was glad.
He saith to thee that his son, the darling of his heart and the fruit of his loins, is with thee and in this thy city; and if he find him in safety, his aim is won and thou shalt have praise and thanks; but if he have disappeared from thy dominions or if aught have befallen him, look thou for ruin and the laying waste of thy realm; for this thy city shall become a desert, in which the raven shall croak.
Raven seemed to listen a moment, but again turned several pages, and resumed: "Hideously wet, my hair of golden hue Fouled my fair hands: to have it swiftly shorn I had given my rubies, all for me dug new No eyes had seen, and such no waist had worn! For a draught of water from a drinking horn, For one blue breath, I had given my sapphires blue!
What right has an eagle to eat up a raven?" So taking his bow and arrow, which he always carried, he shot the eagle dead, and the raven, delighted, perched in safety on an opposite tree. "Avenant," screeched he, though not in the sweetest voice in the world; "you have generously succoured me, a poor miserable raven. I am not ungrateful, and I will recompense you one day.
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