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Stray cabins skirted the roadside. Some people moved about them, leaving one the impression of a remoteness that was melancholy. The women in their bare feet made little curtesies to the Friar. Children in long dresses ran into the cabins at sight of the strangers, like rabbits scuttling back to their burrows.
Winship sighed with deep content as he sank into a chair, his eyes scarcely leaving Helen. He owned himself beat out and glad of a dish of tea; but when Clesta had served him in her scuttling crab fashion, he would stop in the middle of a sentence, with saucer half lifted, to gaze with perplexed, wistful tenderness at his stately daughter.
Without an enemy in sight, however, this fine Navy Yard was shamefully evacuated, after partly scuttling and setting fire to the vessels the Cumberland alone being towed away and spiking the guns, and doing other not very material damage. So also, in North Carolina, Rebel influence was equally active.
"I suppose you got your hair cropped off as you came down?" was the next query. "Yes! it was the wind did it as I came scuttling down," answered the other, who was evidently never at a loss what to say. "And now, mate, just tell me how did you get on board this craft?" he inquired.
And swift tropic night smote the Arangi, as she alternately rolled in calms and heeled and plunged ahead in squalls under the lee of the cannibal island of Malaita. It was a stoppage of the south-east trade wind that made for variable weather, and that made cooking on the exposed deck galley a misery and sent the return boys, who had nothing to wet but their skins, scuttling below.
By day, the fierce heat pressed its intolerable burden on the quivering air; and no living creature moved on the dumb, swooning earth, but tiny jerboas scuttling through the parched bushes, or lizards vanishing in the clefts of the rock.
"Lots of 'em, miss," Becky answered in quite a matter-of-fact manner. "There mostly is rats an' mice in attics. You gets used to the noise they makes scuttling about. I've got so I don't mind 'em s' long as they don't run over my piller." "Ugh!" said Sara. "You gets used to anythin' after a bit," said Becky. "You have to, miss, if you're born a scullery maid.
"Good-night, Rae Malgregor Faber!" said the Senior Surgeon. "Good-night what?" gasped the White Linen Nurse. "Good-night, Rae Malgregor Faber," repeated the Senior Surgeon. Clutching at her skirts as though a mouse were after her, the White Linen Nurse went scuttling up the stairs. Very late on into the night the Senior Surgeon lay there on his piazza floor staring out into his garden.
Did they strike muffled but murderous upon the heart of the thousand-league distant dairymaid, or of the old cottage-mother whose evenings were spent in spelling out her boy's loving letters that so oft covered a portion of his exiguous pay?... Was that a scuttling within? Quite probably.
Think evil and you are evil, but it has no reality outside your own thought. Remember that." She talked to him as though he was a little child. He went out into the snowy night where the wind was whirling the snow in picturesque whirls, buttoning his coat about him. The cars were running up Broadway as usual. Taxicabs were scuttling by.
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