United States or Australia ? Vote for the TOP Country of the Week !
There was a stir behind him; turning, he saw Princess Bentrik and the boy enter the room. He rose. "We'll talk about this later. There are some people here...." He motioned them forward and turned away, shoo-ing everybody else out of the room. The news was all over Rivington, and then all over Tanith, while the pinnace was still coming down.
"What's ridiculous, Boss, what is?" "It is almost as though there was ... uh ... no mind left in the body," His Highness said slowly. Then, abruptly, "Are you sure that was truth-serum in that hypodermic?" "You fixed it yourself, Boss." His Highness wheeled suddenly, rudely awakened from his thinking by the loud shoo-ing noise one of the guards was making.
All this bustle of arrival and discussion and alighting had failed, curiously, to turn the head of an odd, unkempt-looking child, a girl of nine or ten, with an old calico sun-bonnet flung back upon her shoulders, tangled, sunburnt hair tossing above it; gown, innocent of crinoline, clinging to lank, growing limbs, and bare feet, whose heels were energetically planted at a quite safe distance from each other, to insure a fair base for the centre of gravity, who, at the moment of their coming, was wrathfully "shoo-ing" off from a bit of rude toy-garden, fenced with ends of twigs stuck up-right, a tall Shanghai hen and her one chicken, who had evidently made nothing, morally or physically, of the feeble inclosure.
Redolent of all that is rural and sweet, is the idea of SPINNER, surrounded by a bevy of his "female Treasury clerks," reclining upon a shady rock just over the Great Falls. We behold SPINNER, with our mind's eye, "fixing" a bait for one of the lovely young fisherwomen, while half a dozen of the others are engaged in fanning him and "Shoo-ing" the flies away from his expressive nose.
Word Of The Day