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Lady Nora looked up quickly, scenting a compliment, and ready to meet it, but the cardinal's face was so grave and so sincere that her readiness forsook her and she stood silent. The earl seemed to be interested in a crucifix of the eleventh century. "While my lord is occupied with the crucifix," said the cardinal, "will you not walk with me?"
Recruits, raw if you will, but already caparisoned, sniffing and scenting, as it were, for the great primordial mire of war. There is no state of being so finely sensitized as national consciousness. A gauntlet down and it surges up. One ripple of a flag defended can goose-flesh a nation. How bitter and how sweet it is to give a soldier!
"What happened between you and the crowd?" pressed Darrin, scenting some news from Reade's mysterious, half-sulky manner. "Never you mind," Tom growled. "Don't tell us," Dick urged. "We can guess a few things, anyway. You've a bruised spot over your left cheek bone that looks like the mark of a punch on the face." "Go ahead and tell us what happened, Tom," urged Greg. Reade only scowled.
His mother sat stiff and upright with her eyes bent on the ground. Only Charles and Molly looked up she with a spot of red on either cheek, he with his bright pugnacious look, his nostrils slightly distended scenting battle with delight. Emilia and Patty were frowning; Kezzy, who hated all family jars, fidgeted with her prayer-book.
For a long time the march of the army had been accompanied by these creatures. Driven from the forest by cold and hunger, and scenting blood from afar, they had hung upon the skirts of the army, feasting on the bones of the horses and the bodies of the dead. Julian examined the door. It was a strong one, and there was no fear of their making an entry there.
The starter's voice grew husky and his temper hot, but at last the horses were all headed in the right direction, if only for the fraction of a second. Jockey Murphy, scenting a start, had Fieldmouse in motion even as the elastic webbing shot into the air; she was in her racing stride as the starter's voice blared out: "You're off! Go on! Go on!"
Ever and anon a little puff issued from its safety-valve, proving to John Marrot that there was life within his fiery steed sufficient to have blown the shed to wreck with all its brother engines, of which there were at the time two or three dozen standing some disgorging their fire and water after a journey, and preparing to rest for the night; some letting off steam with a fiendish yell unbearably prolonged; others undergoing trifling repairs preparatory to starting next day, and a few, like that of our engine-driver, ready for instant action and snorting with impatience like war-horses "scenting the battle from afar."
She lives in hopes of a new springtide in life. Shall I invite her here? She would come, of course, by the first train, scenting the air with wide nostrils, like a stag, and an array of trunks behind her! No! To ask her would be a lamentable confession of failure. The last few days I have arrived at a condition of mind which occasions great self-admiration.
They were those of the pianist, broad, strong and supple, and the new occupation soon engrossed him deeply; he gave up all his spare time to it, and, in a few months, attained so creditable a proficiency, that he went through a course of instruction with a local teacher of music, who, scenting talent, dismissed preliminaries with the assurance of his kind, and initiated his pupil into all that is false and meretricious in the literature of the piano the cheaply pathetic, the tinsel of transcription, the titillating melancholy of Slavonic dance-music to leave him, but for an increased agility of finger, not a whit further forward than he had found him.
But after a while one grows tired of "scenting" roses; and even the trying to walk straight across the bowling-green with her eyes shut, from the arbour at one side to the arbour exactly like it at the other, grew stupid, though no doubt it would have been capital fun with a companion to applaud or criticize. So the wood-path became Griselda's favourite haunt.
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