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I wandered into the woods because I could not sleep, and I saw you pass. But tell me, she added with still deeper anxiety, 'does the white-feather come alone? Does he approach friends during the dark hours with a soft step like a fox? "Feeling the necessity of detaining her until my comrades should have time to surround the camp, I said: 'The white-feather hunts far from his lands.
I wandered into the woods because I could not sleep, and I saw you pass. But tell me, she added, with still deeper anxiety, `does the white-feather come alone? Does he approach friends during the dark hours with a soft step like a fox? "Feeling the necessity of detaining her until my comrades should have time to surround the camp, I said: `The white-feather hunts far from his lands.
Jake had fallen asleep, but the squawk of the Hen happened to awaken him, and he sat up in time to see her borne away in old Saddleback's jaws. As soon as they were out of sight Jake took up the white-feather trail.
'Well, Andy, we mustn't show the white-feather in that way; we could not expect to get to America without being sick, or suffering some disagreeables. 'When yer honours are satisfied, 'tisn't for the likes of me to grumble, Andy said resignedly. 'Only if everybody knew what was before them, they mightn't do many a thing, maybe! 'Very true, Andy. 'So we're all sayin' down in the steerage, sir.
Like most idle men, Webber never had a moment to spare. Except read, there was nothing he did not do; training a hack for a race in the Phoenix, arranging a rowing-match, getting up a mock duel between two white-feather acquaintances, were his almost daily avocations. Besides that, he was at the head of many organized societies, instituted for various benevolent purposes.
"Now then, Jones, this is what you have to read," said Walter, who had been writing it on a slip of paper "I humbly beg Smythe's pardon for pelting him, and the pardon of all present for my abominable lies." Jones began to mumble it out, but there arose a general shout of "On your knees, White-feather; on your knees, and much louder."
Those ferryboats, by the way, are extremely graceful; they look like white peacocks dragging enormous white-feather tails. By night the bay view from the central hill-spine shows the cities of Berkeley and Oakland like enormous planes of crystal tilted against the distance, the ferryboats illuminated but still peacock-shaped, floating on the black waters like monster toys of Venetian glass.
"`Press where ye see my white plume shine amid the ranks of war, And be your oriflamme to-day the helmet of Jones." Another peal of laughter followed this allusion to Jones's well-known nickname of White-feather, a nickname earned by many acts of conspicuous cowardice. "Hush, Flip," whispered Power, "we mustn't make this quite a joke.
I called him poltroon and white-feather, and was considering whether I had not better go down to him, seeing that our time must be up, and Simon would be quitting his post, when a cry behind me caused me to turn, and I saw that mademoiselle was no longer looking through the opening in the door.
But Walter's open and generous mind was quite incapable of understanding this unworthy motive, and with feelings far better trained than those of Kenrick, he never felt the slightest qualm of this small jealousy. "Never mind, my dear fellow," said Whalley, patting him on the back; "why should you care so much because two such fellows as White-feather and Varnish try to be impudent.
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