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"Then you've changed," said Romarin wondering, however, in his secret heart whether Marsden had changed very much in that respect after all. Marsden gave a short honk of a laugh. "You didn't suppose I hadn't changed, did you?" Then he leaned suddenly forward. "This is rather a mistake, Romarin rather a mistake," he said. "What is?" "This our meeting again. Quite a mistake." Romarin sighed.
"We must count on the turning of the seasons, Mother, the great migrations, to bring him back to Sherman's Retreat." "He is not a goose, Dear." She turned to Don. "The sooner you come back, the better." "Honk," Don said, embarrassed, and added, "if you love Jesus." "I think this calls for a Riles Blaster. Don? Mother?"
I cared nothing for the honk of wild fowl overhead, nor those sounds of varied animal life borne to us from off the black land; but that strange, dull roar, caused by great logs grinding together in the swirl of the current, and the groaning of bits of undermined shore as they gave way and dropped heavily into the water, racked my nerves.
When wild geese honk high of nights, and when women without sealskin coats grow kind to their husbands, and when Soapy moves uneasily on his bench in the park, you may know that winter is near at hand. A dead leaf fell in Soapy's lap. That was Jack Frost's card. Jack is kind to the regular denizens of Madison Square, and gives fair warning of his annual call.
Straight down the slope he started, seeking the wide marshes where he expected to find his flock. Then suddenly he came to the end of his cord with a jerk, and fell forward on his breast and bill with a honk of surprise. He was not free, after all, and two or three violent struggles convinced him of the fact.
The Japanese postman improves upon nature by the addition of a waist-cloth and a scant shirt of white and blue cotton check; his letter-pouch is fastened to a bamboo-staff; as he bounds along with springy stride he warns people to clear the way by shouting in a musical voice, "Honk, honk."
The quitch grass was thicker now, and the struggle harder. With savage delight Jasper had just torn out a whole handful and had shaken it free from its earth as a dog would shake a rat, when the honk of an auto caused him to look toward the road. As he did so, his face underwent a marvellous transformation.
"What other party?" "My er well, we'll call him my client. He is on his way here and I may need you as a witness." "Witness? What to?" "You will see. Now, Captain, if you'll excuse me, I have some papers to arrange. Make yourself as comfortable as you can. I'm sure you won't have to wait long." Fifteen minutes later the rasping, arrogant "honk" of a motor horn came from the road outside.
In an hour, rested and strengthened, the bird rose again, beating a wide circle slowly and steadily upward, until, with one faint honk of farewell, it sailed slowly out of sight between the peaks, sure of its direction. "'That way, said Howkawanda, 'lies Dead Man's Journey.
And I rather think the change from game birds and pâté de foie gras to simple eggs and bread and butter will do me good." And so the matter was arranged. The servants were notified that, owing to Mrs. Van Raffles's illness, they might take a vacation on full pay for ten days, and Henriette herself prepared society for her departure by fainting twice at the Innit's clam-bake on Honk Island.
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