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Updated: May 20, 2025
He had brought home some bundles of young cabbage plants, and was going to make a bed for them. "It's too late for most things, but I can do something with the ground," he said to himself, as he went to the tool-shed for his fork and shovel. The children had gone into Woodley on an errand for their aunt, but might be back at any moment now.
At two o'clock he wakened me from my slumbers in the smoking-room armchair, and led me blinking into the dark starry night. An old bicycle was found in a tool-shed and handed over to me. 'First turn to the right up by the long fir-wood, he enjoined. 'By daybreak you'll be well into the hills. Then I should pitch the machine into a bog and take to the moors on foot.
Bainton waited a moment, and then, unable any longer to control his curiosity, seized his ladder and deliberately carried it across the lawn, though he knew that that was not the proper way to the tool-shed where it was kept. Halting close to the seat under the apple-tree, he said: "Yon red honeysuckle's comin' on fine, Passon, it be as full o' bud as a pod o' peas."
It upset her more than anything, and again and again she struck the banisters with vexation. Late as it was, she got a lantern from the tool-shed and went down the garden to rake the earth over them. The sparrows had taken every one. But countless fragments of the letter remained, disfiguring the tidy ground.
"Well, I did think about it, Natty; but, you see, my brother's grown to be such a high and mighty sort of chap as wouldn't care for anything that wasn't scarlet and gold. I say, Natty, I have got something though as you may as well have hidden away in the roof of my tool-shed." "Eh?
There were two men after her. He seemed to visualize the situation as a scrap from the stop-press of a newspaper. Also ran. Luke Sharper, Esq. He recalled some of the things Jona had said to him in the tool-shed. She had been rather frank in speaking of her husband. "Bill's wonderful," she said. "He caught the tiger last night. When the keeper couldn't get it. He does everything well.
'I will get another spade, so he fetched the big spade out of the next-door garden tool-shed, and began to dig his nephew out. 'Mind you keep very still, he said, 'or I might chunk a bit out of you with the spade. Then after a while he said 'I confess that I am not absolutely insensible to the dramatic interest of the situation. My curiosity is excited.
From the group, clustered about the tool-shed and awaiting its arrival, a broad-shouldered young man in the flannel shirt and legging boots of a railway engineer separated himself and hurried forward.
And what an evocation! all the centuries of history, so many things, so many men, that those yellow waters have reflected till, full of lassitude and disgust, they have grown heavy, silent and deserted, longing only for annihilation. One morning on the river bank Pierre found La Pierina standing behind an abandoned tool-shed.
I said. "At least, of course you are. But I mean, is this the way to your castle, Circe? And am I going to be turned into a herd of swine presently? They always have seven gates and a dense forest through which I cut a path with my sword, which, by the way, I have left in the tool-shed, unless perchance, maiden, thou hast filched it from my side this last half-hour.
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