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I could not say; and to this minute, viewing the question nakedly in a strict and moral sense, I cannot say either whether or no it was an absolute crime; therefore, being accustomed to read my wrong or right in "David's" eyes, I remained perfectly passive. We waited by the hedge-side for several minutes Mr.
Supposing two children stand side by side in the open street, one is the child of a king, nicely drest and delicately clean, as would be expected from his noble birth and expectation, the other is the little hedge-side vagrant, to whose young face water or cleansing has probably been unknown.
"There goes a peacock-eye," said Philip, dashing after a lovely butterfly, which kept on gently just before him for a time, and then settled nicely in reach upon a robin-run-rake by the hedge-side.
This quarrel was the saving of us; for while it was still raging, another sound came from the top of the hill on the side of the hamlet the tramp of horses galloping. Almost at the same time a pistol-shot, flash and report, came from the hedge-side.
A leap which hardly broke his stride carried him across the iron fence into the orchard, and a score of strides from there brought him to the hedge-side. The hedge was six feet high here. In the lane, which lay low, it was ten feet high. There was a gate twenty yards away.
This was only the third time I had seen him since I drove him away from the farm, and on the two previous occasions he had not come close to us. This time he had screwed up his courage to follow us. As we climbed the lane I saw him slouching up the hedge-side behind us. The Wonder took no notice, and we continued our way in silence.
It has been mentioned that the infected were sometimes seized with a rabid desire of communicating the disorder to such as had not been attacked by it; and as the pair were making the best of their way along the Harrow-road, a poor lazar who was lying against the hedge-side, and had vainly implored their assistance, suddenly started up, and with furious cries and gestures made towards the porter.
It's so dry and warm." "I should enjoy it," Lilian answered, readily. "Then allow me two minutes for bonnet and cloak." She was scarcely longer. They went by the hedge-side path which led towards Bale Water. To-day the papers were full of exciting news. Sir Stafford Northcote had brought forward his resolution for making short work of obstructive Members, and Radicalism stood undecided. Mrs.
The hedge-side beggar boasts a crest, Monsieur La Mothe: a martlet with three mullets in chief. Now do you understand?" "No." "It is the crest of the Molembrais. There were two brothers, the last of their family, and Guy de Molembrais trusted our revered King yes, I see you know the name." Know the name? La Mothe knew it as he knew the justice of the King.
The majority of my activities, however, were those of the ordinary schoolboy, who, on Saturday afternoons and the like occasions of leisure, is commonly given to country rambles and the search for hedge-side treasures.
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