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Updated: August 14, 2024
When he had to do a "crawl" he unwound his puttees and wound them over his knees. He and the others slipped over the parapet without attracting the attention of the enemy's sharpshooters. On hands and knees, like boy scouts playing Indians, they passed through a narrow avenue in the ugly barbed wire, and still not a shot at them.
"Well, I wouldn't go into one if I saw it, now!" exclaimed Harvey. "I can't get any wetter. Pretty soon we'll begin to like it. I'll catch a fish, anyway. This rain will make 'em bite." He unwound a line from a reel, attached a spoon-hook, cast it over and began to troll astern, far in the wake of the canoe.
This evening they were there alone. Mrs. Costello had her work-table placed at the end nearest the river, and her rocking-chair beside it. Some knitting was in her hands, but she could not knit, for her ball of wool was being idly wound and unwound round her daughter's fingers.
Then the seven wires stranded together in each end were unwound, carefully cleaned and scraped, that they might solder readily, after which they were again twisted together with pliers, and the joint completed. When this was done the rubber tape was wound round and round the copper wires, after which the whole was put into a vulcanizing bath of hot paraffine.
It was bound, as is all Tahiti tobacco, in a purau rope, which had to be unwound and which weighed two pounds. The eleven pounds of tobacco were hard as wood, the leaves cemented by moisture. Le Brunnec hacked it with an axe into suitable portions to sell for three francs a pound, the profit on which is a franc. His face was grilled with ama ink. One streak of the natural skin alone remained.
José unwound his zerape from his shoulders and spreading it on the ground between them, deposited two tin cups and a package of sandwiches upon it which, with the addition of a flask of aguardiente which the Captain drew from his pocket, formed their meal.
Mattie came in soon with a boyish rush. She was gleeful as a happy babe. She unwound the scarf from her head and neck, and hung up her cap and cloak like a man, but she gave her hair a little touch of feminine care, and came forward with both palms pressed to her burning cheeks. "Did you suffer, child?" asked Mrs. Allen. "No; I enjoyed it." Herman looked at Stacey. "I believe on my life she did."
But he could not know, nor could they, that he was their kismet and that his small brown hands wound and unwound, tangled and straightened, the threads of their lives. One day they were all three at the depot again. Wing, of course, was there in the discharge of his usual duties.
At Long Barton she had never been afraid even to go past the church-yard in the dark night the free night that had never held any terrors, only dreams. But now: she quickened her pace, and yes footsteps came on behind her. And in front the long straight ribbon of the road unwound, gray now in the shadow. There seemed to be no road turning to right or left. She could not go on forever.
He found the pin and unwound the white cloth. "There," he said, drawing a long breath, "you look like yourself again. Yon were so austere, you scared me, Becky." He was again hugging his knees. "When are you going away?" "On the twenty-ninth. I shall stay over until next week for the Merriweathers' ball." "I didn't know whether you would feel equal to it." "I shall go on Mary's account.
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