It might be that the air was favourable to love catching: anyway, both the young Preens had fallen desperately into it; Jane with Valentine Chandler and Oliver with Emma Paul.
The Preens were Worcestershire people; and old Mr. Preen, dead now, had left a large family of sons and daughters, who had for the most part nothing to live upon.
One stands on the shore and preens itself, the other sits just off it on the water and bathes in it like a duck.
Such penitence was in the brown eyes that glanced beseechingly up at the spindlingly tall monitress that for the moment Miss Preens was almost inclined to accept the apology.
Then it lifts it up and jodels more loudly; then, stooping again, preens the chick's head and face a little with the point of its bill, and nibbles at it affectionately.
But all this while--and I think I must have watched them about two hours--the other little chick stands free on the rock, and most busily preens himself.
With Sainteville the Miss Preens were simply charmed.
On the following day, Friday, the Miss Preenswent to the Place Ronde, piloted by Mary Carimon.
Having purchased or hired the additional things required, the Miss Preens took possession of their house.
The Miss Preens had descended at a fourth-rate hotel, picked out of the guide-book.
He welcomed the Miss Preens with honest, genuine pleasure, interspersed with a little French ceremony; making them about a dozen bows apiece before he met the hands held out to him.
He was introduced as Mr. David Preen, and turned out to be a cousin, more or less removed, of all the Preens and all the Selbys you have ever heard of, dead or living.
Thus the Miss Preensbecame part of the small colony of English at Sainteville.
The Miss Preens turned their backs upon Tours, shaking its dust off their shoes.
When it had made the harbour without accident, the Miss Preens wished him good-morning, and went back down the pier; he took off his hat to them, and walked the other way.
When Mary married and left her country for France, the Miss Preens openly resented it, saying she ought to have had more consideration.
One fine spring morning the Miss Preens packed up their bag and baggage and started for the Continent.
Oh thralls of subdivided time, Hours Measureless I sing That own swift ways to wider scenes, New-plucked from heights where Vision preens A white, unwearied wing!
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