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Their words came jerkily between gasps and their faces were as white as a newly washed and very hungry pig. 'Look out! Midmore shouted. His legs were whirled from under him, as the table, grunting madly, careened and knocked the girl out of sight.
Gerald whirled off in pursuit; the others followed more soberly, and the whole party disappeared round the curve of the road. Hildegarde looked after them rather dolefully. A year ago a girl on a bicycle was a shocking thing to our heroine; she shook her little head severely, and said that nothing would induce her to mount one.
It seems probable that the birds started from some point in the Southern States for a long southward flight, or perhaps for the West Indies, on the evening of November 24th, and on getting out to sea were caught by the great gale, which whirled them northward over the Atlantic, landing them such of them, that is, as were not drowned on the way upon the coast of New England.
Dick held his breath, and again that shiver came into his blood. Then he heard and saw an extraordinary thing. A singular deep, long-drawn cry came from the multitude in unison, a note of surprise and mingled threat. Then all whirled about at the same moment and gazed at the horsemen at the base of the hill. The cavalrymen quickly turned back, rode around the hill and out of sight.
Trapes, whose motherly solicitude she heeded no more than the bustle and traffic of the streets through which the swift car whirled her on and on until, turning, it swung in between massive gates and pulled up before a great, gloomy house.
Amid thunder, smoke, and brute and human terror the remounting groups whirled away and had entirely left the scene before that was asked which none could tell: Where was Anna? Anna herself did not know, could not inquire of her own mind.
For this a human soul was required, and it was Mary Jane's business to pick up broken ends; and the moment she placed them together the busy soulless creature tied them for itself. All here was ugly; even the green wool as it whirled round and round was neither the green of the grass nor yet the green of the rushes, but a sorry muddy green that befitted a sullen city under a murky sky.
Who had named those birds the birds of paradise? She recollected how the feathers which Ella had whirled about had held in the very center of every wonderful disc of rich purple, edged with unequal radiating lines of gold, a single spot of brilliant crimson, with a tiny star of silver in the center.
His eyes twinkled with quiet amusement as he looked about him at the stricken faces of his friends. She whirled on the gaping McCloud. "But you must have a care!" she cried at him vehemently. "You must save his eyes. I wish it!" McCloud, recovering himself, bowed. "Madam," said he with a faint, amused irony. "It shall be my pleasure to do my best in fulfilling your commands."
Don't you, Bicky?" he persisted anxiously. "Yes, Tommy, dear." "I do think you the luckiest girl in the whole world. Just fancy being his daughter." "Yes, Tommy." Her head whirled, her heart beat hard, her hands were as cold as ice. This, she told herself, was the plunge; it would be better shortly. And when it was better, then she could begin to fight. For she would fight.
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