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The dusk advanced on him steadily, rapidly, gathering in behind and before; and the light seemed to be draining away like flood-water. Then the faces began. It was over his shoulder, and indistinctly, that he first thought he saw a face, a little, evil, wedge-shaped face, looking out at him from a hole. When he turned and confronted it, the thing had vanished.
Now, whether I have done thee a wrong in keeping thee from the burning-ghat, do thou and the crows settle together. So I cast him adrift into the flood-water, and he was drawn out to the open, ever wagging his thick black beard like a priest under the pulpit-board. And I saw no more of Himam Singh.
And then something drove pitilessly against her body, and she flung out one arm, holding Peter close with the other and caught hold of a bit of stub that protruded like a handle from the black and slippery log the flood-water had brought down upon her. "We're all right, Peter," she cried, even in that moment when she knew she had lost. "We're all ri "
"This example is remarkable in this respect, that, all other circumstances having remained the same, the changes in the action of the stream can be attributed only to the restoration of the forest changes which may be thus summed up: diminution of flood-water during rains increase of delivery at other seasons."
At the edge of the wood the bluebells had flowed over into the field and stood there like flood-water. But they were fading now. Clara strayed up to them. He wandered after her. The bluebells pleased him. "Look how they've come out of the wood!" he said. Then she turned with a flash of warmth and of gratitude. "Yes," she smiled. His blood beat up.
The flood-water ran into a marsh some miles above the mountain, and became as black as ink; and when it returned again to the river emitted so strong an effluvium of sulphuretted hydrogen, that one could not forget for an instant that the air was most offensive. The natives said this stench did not produce disease.
They swept on without a pause, out and round, like flood-water round a knoll, joined at the far side, and were still. As a maneuver, a military maneuver, swift, unexpected, faultless, and silent, it was perfect. For as long as a man takes to light a pipe there was dead silence, broken only by the quick motor-like panting of the pack.
It topped its bank and joined the flood-water that was hemmed between two low hills just where the embankment of the Colliery main line crossed. When a large part of a rain-fed river, and a few acres of flood-water, make a dead set for a nine-foot culvert, the culvert may spout its finest, but the water cannot all get out.
'And the rain stopped before eight, you know. 'Then Coxen's dam 'as broke, and that's the first of the flood-water. She stared out beside him. The water was rising in sudden pulses an inch or two at a time, with great sweeps and lagoons and a sudden increase of the brook's proper thunder. 'You can't stand all the time. Take a chair, Midmore said presently. Rhoda looked back into the bare room.
The dusk advanced on him steadily, rapidly, gathering in behind and before; and the light seemed to be draining away like flood-water. Then the faces began. It was over his shoulder, and indistinctly, that he first thought he saw a face; a little evil wedge-shaped face, looking out at him from a hole. When he turned and confronted it, the thing had vanished.
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