He knew that probably Boxer knew nothing at all about Jimmy Skunk and never had heard of that little bag of scent carried by[190] Jimmy and dreaded by all of Jimmy's neighbors.
She dreaded going back to New Moon and meeting Ilse with this consciousness of a dark secret which she must hide from her.
She dreaded the morning.
Every evening when she returned from school she dreaded to see that the work of destruction had begun.
Most of the children hated "speaking pieces;" hated the burden of learning them, dreaded the danger of breaking down in them.
Lightfoot knew that he had nothing to fear in that direction so long as the Merry Little Breezes brought him none of the dreaded man-scent, and he knew that he could trust the Merry Little Breezes to bring him that scent if there should be a man anywhere in front of him.
So long as they brought him none of the dreaded man-smell, he knew that he was safe.
" So the hunter in his turn made a wide circle back, and presently there was none of the dreaded man-smell among the scents which the Merry Little Breezes brought to Lightfoot.
He was trying to get behind the hunter so that the Merry Little Breezes would bring to him the dreaded man-scent.
She had dreaded the overtures which for a fortnight past she had foreseen were inevitably to come from Mynors: he was a stranger, whom she merely respected.
The dreaded hour, the post-hour, was nearing, and I sat waiting it, much as a ghost-seer might wait his spectre.
At that time, I well remember whatever could excite—certain accidents of the weather, for instance, were almost dreaded by me, because they woke the being I was always lulling, and stirred up a craving cry I could not satisfy.
It so happened that this girl, Dolores by name, and a Catalonian by race, was the sort of character at once dreaded and hated by all her associates; the act of summary justice above noted proved popular: there was not one present but, in her heart, liked to see it done.
At last I met a sort of patrol, and my dreaded hunters were turned from the pursuit; but they had driven me beyond my reckoning: when I could collect my faculties, I no longer knew where I was; the staircase I must long since have passed.
I will not say that I dreaded going to bed, an hour later; yet I certainly went with an unquiet anticipation that I should find that child in no peaceful sleep.
" Cecily had remarked as we were coming that what she dreaded most of all was introducing the subject; but Mr.
Now she dreaded it.
"I didn't bid you good-night that evening, and I didn't go to Wuthering Heights the next: I wished to go exceedingly; but I was strangely excited, and dreaded to hear that Linton was dead, sometimes; and sometimes shuddered at the thought of encountering Hareton.
" he asked, hesitating, as if he dreaded the answer to his question would introduce details that he could not bear to hear.
And he dreaded that mind: it revolted him: he shrank forebodingly from the idea of committing Isabella to its keeping.
