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Updated: May 7, 2025
At nearly every step the body lurched for poise and balance. At last he came to a point of the path from which, as he knew, the little rush-covered house ought to be seen. "It's yonder," he cried, and pointed it out to himself with uplifted finger. The sun was sinking, and its strong rays were in his face. "She's there, I see her!" he shouted. A few minutes later he was near the door.
'And what are their names? she inquired. 'Dis is Fidilini, signorina, and zat one wif ze white nose is Macaroni, and zat ovver is Cristoforo Colombo. Elizabetta appeared in the doorway with two rush-covered flasks, and Tony hurried forward to receive them.
By the river was a flat reed- and rush-covered corner, with a ring of oaks round, the Thames at the bottom, and some tall chestnut-trees on the outside. As the men advanced we had a regular rise of wild pheasants, rocketing up from the reeds in every direction high over the oaks and chestnuts.
It makes so little difference which, either way the Red Mouse has been there the evening towards this little rush-covered hut, he forgot the Red Mouse, and began vaguely to see that there are creatures of his mother's sex from whom the beast of the Brocken slinks away. But he still said to himself, "Nevertheless."
At the end of these, a flight of stone steps leading upwards seemed to promise something better; and true enough, the door at the top being opened, the murmur of a crowd reached our ears, with a burst of sunlight and warmth. We were in a lofty room, with walls in some places painted, and elsewhere hung with tapestry; well lighted by three old pointed windows reaching to the rush-covered floor.
Then I started back, for outside was the scaffold built level with the floor, and rush-covered like it! Two or three people were lounging on it. My eyes sought Louis among the group, but in vain. He was not there: and while I looked for him, I heard a noise behind me, and he came in, guarded by four soldiers with pikes. His face was pale and grave, but perfectly composed.
Upon one of the rush-covered islands a herd of elephants was discovered, almost concealed by the height of the vegetation.
She stood and looked at him with frank and grateful eyes; she could hardly believe that he was here; he, the stranger of Rubes' land, in her own little rush-covered home. But she was not embarrassed by it; she was glad and proud. There is a dignity of peasants as well as of kings, the dignity that comes from all absence of effort, all freedom from pretence.
A quarter of an hour later he made the acquaintance of the woman's husband, a brown-faced, sinister-looking individual whose black bushy eyebrows met, and who greeted the young Englishman familiarly in atrocious French, offering him a glass of red wine from a big rush-covered flask. "We only had word of your coming late last night," the man said.
These slight elevations, however, were not visible to the eye, for the herbage here grew shorter than on the lower and wetter ground, and the land apparently stretched away for a vast distance in a dead flat a rush-covered swamp, broken only here and there by patches of bushes and low trees.
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