United States or British Indian Ocean Territory ? Vote for the TOP Country of the Week !
mocked an echo not of the hills. Andy swore in his astonishment and gave his horse a kick as a mild hint for haste. He thought he knew every woman-voice in the neighborhood or had until the colony came but this voice, high and sweet and with a compelling note that stirred him vaguely, was absolutely strange.
The sweet woman-voice so startled him that he opened the door wide. "Come in, mum," he said apologetically; "come in out of the night." "No. Is the doctor in?" "I don't know," he grumbled, "and I can't stand here with the door open." "Close it, then, but see if he is in, please." "I'll lave it open, and ye can come in or stay out according if ye are dry-humored or wet-soled;" and he shuffled off.
Memory, ermine-robed, half enchantress and half avenger, turned her face full on his as he sat by the spring; but he turned his own away and started on, ever on. "Oh, my God! Give me a chance," he cried, "give me a chance," and the darkness answered not, but the whispering trees seemed to have the woman-voice.
Word Of The Day