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It was heavily wooded, dark green and inviting. "In the air?" I echoed, recovering from my astonishment. Then I laughed mightily. "Man, ye must be crazy! There is no animal can live in the air! Ye must mean in the water or on land." "Nay," interposed the star-gazer.
To speak dispassionately, however, he was not a bad sort of fellow merely a star-gazer; and since the world contains many watchers of the skies, why should Tientietnikov not have been one of them?
He felt that if he had not rushed incontinently from the presence of that underground star-gazer Dr. Wilson, he must either have punched that respected person’s venerated head, or have laughed in his honored face.
Orders being immediately given for the marriage to proceed, they were made one with all speed; and it is said, that before another year came round, the fair princess was one of the most beautiful objects in the creation. One night in the month of the fires of Bel, Cathvah, the Druid and star-gazer, was observing the heavens through his astrological instruments.
And to speak the truth, goodman, for I perceive I am no doctor at lying, my father and mother would have me stay at home when my brethren were gone, and that liketh me not; therefore am I come out to seek my luck in the world: for Upmeads is good for a star-gazer, maybe, or a simpler, or a priest, or a worthy good carle of the fields, but not for a king's son with the blood running hot in his veins.
It opened and Noel le Jolys emerged, followed by, the slight, hunched figure in faded black velvet for whom the eyes of the conspirators were so eager. Noel advanced questioning: "Is the star-gazer here?" René de Montigny answered him glibly as a showman patters the praise of his wares. "Aye. He is the wonder of the world. He can read the stars more easily than a tapster the score on his shutter.
"That gave the insane fanatic star-gazer hopes that I might renounce my faith! But me, the faithful follower of our Prophet me it should have undeceived. Lie there, mysterious scroll," he added, thrusting it under the pile of cushions; "strange are thy bodements and fatal, since, even when true in themselves, they work upon those who attempt to decipher their meaning all the effects of falsehood.
I thought swiftly and turned on him with a frown: "Mean ye that I am not handsome enough?" "Nay, Strokor," quoth the star-gazer. "There be none handsomer in this world, no matter what the standard of any other, such as Edam's Jeos. "It is not that. It is, that thou hast no ambition." I considered this deeply. At first thought it was not true; had I not always made it a point to best my opponent?
"I rejoice to hear you say this, Mildred," for so the admiral had unconsciously, and unrepelled, begun to call his sweet companion "I rejoice to hear you say this, for I am an inveterate star-gazer and moon-ite; and I shall hope to persuade you and Mrs. Dutton to waste yet another hour, with me, in walking on this height.
That was his first meeting with the star-gazer, who kills more babies than ever Herod did. Then there were minnows, and herrings, and lizards, and frogs, and weasels, and water-snakes, and other butchers of all sorts and sizes, too numerous to mention.
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