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They ran those horses neck and neck, right up the hill approaching Groveville, until they were almost from sight, then they whirled and came sweeping back fast as the wind. The Princess' eyes were like dead coals, and her black curls streamed, the thin silk dress wrapped tight around her and waved back like a gossamer web such as spiders spin in October.
A minute later they were stepping along the muddy road. The tramp was more bent than ever, and he thrust his hands further up his sleeves. Ptaha was silent. MELITON SHISHKIN, a bailiff from the Dementyev farm, exhausted by the sultry heat of the fir-wood and covered with spiders' webs and pine-needles, made his way with his gun to the edge of the wood.
"You wouldn't accept, anyway," I began. "How do you know?" "You wouldn't leave town, would you?" "Yes, if you required it." "What? Go to Florida?" "Y-yes if I must." "But think of the alligators! Think of the snakes big, bitey snakes!" "Gracious!" she exclaimed, eyes growing bigger. "Indians, too! unreconciled, sulky Seminoles! Fevers! Mud-puddles! Spiders! And only fifty dollars a week "
"Toady! you're a wicked, disrespectful boy; never let me hear you say such a thing again about your dear Aunt Kipp." "She isn't dear! You know we all hate her, and you are more afraid of her than you are of spiders, so now."
I remember after our last long trip it was really dreadful for a week or two everything yellow and musty; mice and cockroaches camping in the library and bedrooms, and spiders everywhere. By the way, Sara, have you had to fight moths much?" "Yes, occasionally. Molly has made a raid on them every week or so, with gasoline, I believe I don't think they've made much headway."
But his wife had heard that so often that she knew all about it, and a little more. And, besides, she was the mother of a family, and had seven little poults to wash and feed every day; and that made her very practical, and a little sharp-tempered; so all she answered was: "Kick-kick-kick go and catch spiders, go and catch spiders kick."
"'Wait here, under the Arch, said Taku-Wakin, 'till I see if the arrow of my thought finds a cleft to stick into. "So we waited, watching the white, webby moons of the spiders, wet in the grass, and the man huts sleeping on the hill, and felt the Dawn's breath pricking the skin of our shoulders. The huts were mere heaps of brush like rats' nests.
We walked together towards the house, which had opened several of its green eyelids now, and at the mouth of a sort of stucco tunnel which led to the door there was Joseph himself a piteous, dishevelled Joseph, looking as if birds had built nests on him and spiders had woven webs round him for years. "Well," exclaimed the Prince with the air of one warding off a blow. "What has happened?
Out of the apparatus of the workmen, left behind, she constructed her writing-establishment, and here, secure from interruption, denying herself to all visitors, never going out except to visit her children at their respective schools, she completed her novel with no companions but the spiders crawling over the planks, the mice running in and out of the corners, and the blackbirds hopping in from the garden; the deep sense of solitude enhanced by the roar of the city in the very heart of which she had thus voluntarily isolated herself.
So would you, most gentle reader, if a great giant pinched you between his thumb and finger, and held your hands and feet and head; and if, too, like our spider, you could not see enough to distinguish friends from foes. Spiders, then, will bite. But to the second part of the inquiry our answer must be less positive.
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