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The few stray passengers who had been loafing rather than walking about the street, had scuttered away like frightened rabbits to some invisible places of refuge, and though Salisbury whistled loud and long for a hansom, no hansom appeared.
The light shone into the cave where she had slept. She saw a naked foot with toes dug into the sand and beyond the foot a form lying on its side. Then she drew back with a cry; something was moving there. A rabbit dashed out of the cave and scuttered away along the cliff base. Then she knew. La Touche was dead, he would never crawl again. She had killed him.
The words scuttered from her lips like sharp hailstones and she glanced at him sidewise over a hump of uplifted shoulder and down the length of one akimbo arm. "'Cause you're stuck on me! Huh!" Max Meltzer leaned across a counter display of fringed breakfast napkins. "Ain't that a good reason, Miss Sadie? It's a true one." "You're one swell little guesser, you are not.
I couldn't see you behind the flowers. Was it very deep water, dear?" George mopped a brow already browned by outdoor exposures. "Oh no dead easy," he answered. "I've bought Friars Pardon to prevent Sir Walter's birds straying." A cock pheasant scuttered through the dry leaves and exploded almost under their feet. Sophie jumped. "That's one of 'em," said George calmly.
The sea-birds rose in clouds as we swung across the shoal, the black surf-ducks scuttered out to sea, the gulls tossed their sun-tipped wings in the ocean, riding the rollers like bits of froth. Already we were sailing slowly out across that great hole in the ocean, five miles deep, the most profound sounding ever taken in the Atlantic.
And he entered the drawing-room with the satisfied air of having fed Musa from infancy and also of having taught him all he knew about the violin. Madame Foa followed him, and with her was Miss Ingate, gorgeous and blushing. The whole company was now on its feet and moving about. Miss Ingate scuttered to Audrey. "Well," she whispered. "Here I am.
She knew there was some manner of mystification forward and yearned for the key to it. "He chafes in the music-chamber." "Send him here top-speed," Brilliana commanded. With a whisk of flying skirts Tiffany scuttered back to the house, and Brilliana turned to Halfman, the laughter in her eyes seeking and finding the laughter in his. "Well," she said, "our angling prospers blithely.
He was wild with excitement, and Vixen, as usual, squealed and scuttered and scooted, and took charge of the procession. There was one corner of a village near by, which we generally passed with caution, because all the yellow pariah-dogs of the place gathered about it.
Then she saw the nights when she would sit in the big book-room with the ghosts walking about the draughty passages, up and down through the green baize door, looking for their swords and dirks, the beds and tables and chairs that had been sold while the rats scuttered about the wainscoting.
There was a fat tub of a boat at his landing; he reached the shore in a series of long, distracted leaps, sprang aboard, cast off, thrust both oars deep into the water, and fairly hurled the boat forward, so that it alternately skipped, wallowed, scuttered, and scrambled, like a hen overboard. "This is terrible," he groaned.
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