TWO:Presently his reverie was abruptly disturbed by a faint noise, strangely familiar although remote. It seemed to reach him from the right, as though something crept slowly along the hedge line, hidden from his view. It was a soft, purring sound, very regular and sustained. At first he thought it was the cry of a pheasant, but decided that it was much too persistent. It was something that made a noise in the process of walking along.Softly she sprang from the bed, paced the floor, went to the window, seemed to look out upon the landscape; but in truth she was looking in upon herself. There she saw a most unaccountable tendency for her judgment--after some long overstrain--momentarily, but all at once, to swoon, collapse, turn upside down like a boy's kite and dart to earth; an impulse--while fancying she was playing the supremely courageous or generous or clever part--suddenly to surrender the key of the situation, the vital point in whatever she might be striving for. "Ah me, ah me! why did I give my parole?"
FORE:[Pg 360]I saw them home, of course, and next Saturday Im going to have a regular beano in those slums beyond the church. Dont be shocked, Mrs Keeling, if its your priest who has a black eye on Sunday morning.
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FORE:On their return to Shanghai, the Doctor informed his young companions that they would take the first steamer up the coast in the direction of Pekin.
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FORE:THRESHING GRAIN. THRESHING GRAIN.
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FORE:"Well, that might depend on who 'her' is." We had reached the cross-roads and he was turning south.
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