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Swinburne's entry was for me a great moment. Here, suddenly visible in the flesh, was the legendary being and divine singer. Here he was, shutting the door behind him as might anybody else, and advancing a strange small figure in grey, having an air at once noble and roguish, proud and skittish. My name was roared to him.
Considering that she 'ad only just buried her 'usband, Rupert found her quite skittish enough, and he couldn't 'elp wondering wot she'd be like when she'd got over her grief a bit more. The manager and George said he 'ad got on wonderfully, and arter talking it over with Mrs.
Now and then a horse narrowly missed stepping on her, and those Uhlans must have wondered that night why their horses were so skittish. "Every time she saw an opening the little heroine would dart ahead; each time a cloud passed between earth and moon she gained a little distance. Once a Uhlan's horse jumped clear over her and kicked viciously at her after it had landed on its feet.
"Alone! on that 'ere little skittish creeter? he's as handsome as a picture, too why, do tell if you warn't afraid? it a'most scares me to think of it." "I was a little afraid," said Ellen, as she followed Miss Janet along the entry "but I couldn't help that. You think the doctor will soon be in, Ma'am?"
And anon he looked down into Dorothy's sweet face as if no foreign shore or any inner vision ever looked so good to him. Miss Meechim hated to have Dorothy see them natives, I see she did; actin' so skittish towards the male sect always, it wuz dretful galdin' to her to see 'em in that state and specially to have Dorothy see 'em.
"Besides, they 're skittish, nervous things compared with a hoss. What I 'd like is something neither one nor t'other a sort of cross between an auto and Bill." "Why not get a Ford car, then," I asked, "with a cultivator attachment? It would n't step on as many hills in the row as Bill does, and I think it would beat Bill on the road."
He was scarcely aware of them in his desire to be gone, merely throwing an order here and there as he partook of a hasty breakfast, and then striding forth to their vast relief to mount into the Cape cart with its two skittish horses that awaited him beyond the stoep.
Although very anxious to carry her home immediately, my heart died within me at the prospect of a long gallop on a skittish mare with a plump Dorking hen tied up in a bag on my lap. There was no help for it, however, and I tried to put my bravest face on the matter.
He emphasized the surname with a touch of malice. She coloured, but replied "Good-morning" with a sweet composure. He eyed her askance, but had no opportunity for more words, as old Hugo just then clambered up into the dog-cart, and took the reins of the rather skittish young mare which was harnessed to it. "Come on, Landon!" he shouted, impatiently "No time for farewells!"
He said she was a new boat, and that this was her first voyage. I said I hoped she would get a bit steadier as she grew older. He replied: "Yes, she is a bit skittish to-night."
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