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    Blue-Bird Weather
    Blue-Bird Weather
    Blue-Bird Weather
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    Blue-Bird Weather

    By Robert W. (Robert William) Chambers and Charles Dana Gibson

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    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherArchive Classics
    Release dateAug 1, 2007
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      Blue-Bird Weather - Robert W. (Robert William) Chambers

      The Project Gutenberg eBook, Blue-Bird Weather, by Robert W. Chambers, Illustrated by Charles Dana Gibson

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      Title: Blue-Bird Weather

      Author: Robert W. Chambers

      Release Date: January 21, 2008 [eBook #24389]

      Language: English

      Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1

      ***START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK BLUE-BIRD WEATHER***

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      and the Project Gutenberg Online Distributed Proofreading Team

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      BLUE-BIRD WEATHER

      Works of Robert W. Chambers

      The Streets Of Ascalon

      Blue-Bird Weather

      Japonette

      The Adventures of a Modest Man

      The Danger Mark

      Special Messenger

      The Firing Line

      The Younger Set

      The Fighting Chance

      Some Ladies in Haste

      The Tree of Heaven

      The Tracer of Lost Persons

      A Young Man in a Hurry

      Lorraine

      Maids of Paradise

      Ashes of Empire

      The Red Republic

      Outsiders

      The Common Law

      Ailsa Paige

      The Green Mouse

      Iole

      The Reckoning

      The Maid-at-Arms

      Cardigan

      The Haunts of Men

      The Mystery of Choice

      The Cambric Mask

      The Maker of Moons

      The King in Yellow

      In Search of the Unknown

      The Conspirators

      A King and a Few Dukes

      In the Quarter

      For Children

      Garden-Land

      Forest-Land

      River-Land

      Mountain-Land

      Orchard-Land

      Outdoor-Land

      Hide and Seek in Forest-Land

      D. APPLETON AND COMPANY, New York

      She trotted away to Marche's door and tapped softly. [Page 140]

      BLUE-BIRD

      WEATHER

      By ROBERT W. CHAMBERS

      WITH ILLUSTRATIONS BY

      CHARLES DANA GIBSON

      D. APPLETON AND COMPANY

      NEW YORK AND LONDON :: MCMXII

      Copyright, 1912, by

      ROBERT W. CHAMBERS

      Copyright, 1911, by International Magazine Company

      Published October, 1912

      Published in the United States of America

      TO

      JOSEPH LEE

      OF NEEDWOOD FOREST

      LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

      PAGE

      She trotted away to Marche's door and tapped softly. Frontispiece

      She said gravely: 'I am afraid it will be blue-bird weather.' 14

      'Well,' he said pleasantly, 'what comes next, Miss Herold?' 26

      "'I'm so sorry, Jim.'" 33

      They ate their luncheon there together. 88

      'Jim,' he said, 'where did you live?' 99

      'He tells you that he—he is in love with you?' 127

      BLUE-BIRD WEATHER

      I

      It was now almost too dark to distinguish objects; duskier and vaguer became the flat world of marshes, set here and there with cypress and bounded only by far horizons; and at last land and water disappeared behind the gathered curtains of the night. There was no sound from the waste except the wind among the withered reeds and the furrowing splash of wheel and hoof over the submerged causeway.

      The boy who was driving had scarcely spoken since he strapped Marche's gun cases and valise to the rear of the rickety wagon at the railroad station. Marche, too, remained silent, preoccupied with his own reflections. Wrapped in his fur-lined coat, arms folded, he sat doubled forward, feeling the Southern swamp-chill busy with his bones. Now and then he was obliged to relight his pipe, but the cold bit at his fingers, and he hurried to protect himself again with heavy gloves.

      The small, rough hands of the boy who was driving were naked, and finally Marche mentioned it, asking the child if he were not cold.

      No, sir, he said, with a colorless brevity that might have been shyness or merely the dull indifference of the very poor, accustomed to discomfort.

      Don't you feel cold at all? persisted Marche kindly.

      No, sir.

      I suppose you are hardened to this sort of weather?

      Yes, sir.

      By the light of a flaming match, Marche glanced sideways at him as he drew his pipe into a glow once more, and for an instant the boy's gray eyes flickered toward his in the flaring light. Then darkness masked them both again.

      Are you Mr. Herold's son? inquired the young man.

      Yes, sir, almost sullenly.

      How old are you?

      Eleven.

      You're a big boy, all right. I have never seen your father. He is at the clubhouse, no doubt.

      Yes, sir, scarcely audible.

      And you and he live there all alone, I suppose?

      Yes, sir. A moment later the boy added jerkily, And my sister, as though truth had given him a sudden nudge.

      Oh, you have a sister, too?

      Yes, sir.

      That makes it very jolly for you, I fancy, said Marche pleasantly. There was no reply to the indirect question.

      His pipe had gone out again, and he knocked the ashes from it and pocketed it. For a while they drove on in silence, then Marche peered impatiently through the darkness, right and left, in an effort to see; and gave it up.

      You must know this road pretty well to be able to keep it, he said. As for me, I can't see anything except a dirty little gray star up aloft.

      The horse knows the road.

      "I'm glad of that.

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