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Updated: July 11, 2025
Light thickens, and the crow Makes wing to the rooky wood: Good things of day begin to droop, and drowze; While night's black agents to their preys do rouze. Meanwhile Count De Villefort and Lady Blanche had passed a pleasant fortnight at the chateau de St.
By this time the boys had learned to pitch and strike camp in the briefest possible time in short, to take very good care of themselves under most of the varying conditions which such a life as they were leading entailed. They had made camp this night on a rooky promontory, under clear skies and with bright promise for the morrow.
Later I came to know of the difficulty that confronts the young men, raw from the Officers' Training Corps, when they take up their preliminary duties as commanders of trained soldiers. No "rooky" fresh to the ranks is the butt of so many jokes and such biting sarcasm as the young officer is subjected to when he takes his place as a leader of men.
A great flock of rooks which filled the air with their rooky gossip, was flying straight home to an old gray ruin just visible amongst some ancient trees. They had been gathering worms and grubs all day, and now it was bed time. They felt, through all their black feathers, the coolness of that evening breeze which came from the cloudy mausoleum already built over the grave of the down-gone sun.
You shall go to Northampton to-morrow. Write to Rooky this afternoon." Lady Ogram grew sportive. "Prepare him. Come along, now, to lunch; you look hungry." "Just one word. You are quite sure it will be wise to bring this young lady at once to Rivenoak?" "You say she knows how to behave herself!" "Certainly. But the change in her position will be rather sudden, don't you think?
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