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Raymond's horse while he was away, on condition that he never worked him more than six hours a day, and fed him well, and that, besides, he should take Nanny home as soon as she was able to leave the hospital, and provide for her as one of his own children, neither better nor worse so long, that is, as he had the horse. Diamond's father could not help thinking it a pretty close bargain.
Light began to glimmer from the blue of her eyes. A moment more, and she laid her hand on Diamond's head, and began playing with his hair. Diamond took hold of her hand, and laid his face to it. She gave a little start. "How very alive you are, child!" she murmured. "Come nearer to me." By the help of the stones all around he clambered up beside her, and laid himself against her bosom.
Indeed, there was such a high wall, and there were so many houses about the mews, that North Wind seldom got into the place at all, except when something must be done, and she had a grand cleaning out like other housewives; while the partition at the head of Diamond's new bed only divided it from the room occupied by a cabman who drank too much beer, and came home chiefly to quarrel with his wife and pinch his children.
Suppose, for a week or two, you set yourself to take Ruby down and bring Diamond up. If we could only lay a pipe from Ruby's sides into Diamond's, it would be the work of a moment. But I fear that wouldn't answer." A strong inclination to laugh intruded upon Joseph's inclination to cry, and made speech still harder than before. "I beg your pardon, sir," he said at length.
The majority of them had no other means of subsistence than the profits thus obtained. Many a nail, cut from the filthy foot of some unscrupulous ecclesiastic, was sold at a diamond's price, within six months after its severance from its parent toe, upon the supposition that it had once belonged to a saint.
It was bed-time soon, and Diamond went to bed and fell fast asleep. He awoke all at once, in the dark. "Open the window, Diamond," said a voice. Now Diamond's mother had once more pasted up North Wind's window. "Are you North Wind?" said Diamond: "I don't hear you blowing." "No; but you hear me talking. Open the window, for I haven't overmuch time." "Yes," returned Diamond.
"Yes, father, I understand," said Diamond. Then to the horse he said, "Go on Diamond." And old Diamond's ponderous bulk began at once to move to the voice of the little boy. But before they had reached the entrance of the mews, another voice called after young Diamond, which, in his turn, he had to obey, for it was that of his mother. "Diamond!
Frank sprang up lightly, just as Tad Horner grappled him by the hair with both hands and yelled: "Break away!" Roland Ditson was at Diamond's side in a twinkling. "Come, come, old man!" he whispered; "get up and get into the game again! Don't let them count you out!" But the Virginian was gasping for breath, and he did not seem to hear the words of his second.
I said; and when we looked round, after the blinding of the flash had left our eyes, we saw a huge bough of the beech-tree in which was Diamond's nest hanging to the ground like the broken wing of a bird. "There!" cried Nanny; "I told you so. If you had been up there you see what would have happened, you little silly!" "No, I don't," said Diamond, and began to sing to Dulcimer.
And just beside him was the ladder going straight down into the stable, up which his father always came to fetch the hay for Diamond's dinner. Through the opening in the floor the faint gleam of the-stable lantern was enticing, and Diamond thought he would run down that way. The stair went close past the loose-box in which Diamond the horse lived.
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