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Whether the fellow wished it or not, he stopped there, then, at that minute! We stopped with such an almighty thud that it seemed as if the cars must fly into splinters. They rattled and shook and cracked. The passengers executed further acrobatic feats upon the floor; they clutched at things and fell over things and swore and gurgled. "Well, by thunder!" ejaculated Hawkins.
Thinking over all this, Andy realized that the beginning and end of all his troubles was his irrepressible tendency towards acrobatic performances. "And I simply can't help it!" he cried in a kind of reckless despair. "It's born in me, I guess. Oh, don't I hope Aunt Lavinia turns me out, as she has often threatened to do.
"I have added some instructions on the back of the last page," explained the Prince, "to which you will draw Mr. Hope's particular attention. I would wish you to promise me, Miss Jane, never again to have recourse to dangerous acrobatic tricks, not even in the sacred cause of journalism." "Of course, if you hadn't been so jolly difficult to get at " "My fault, I know," agreed the Prince.
Our good friends of the rd Brigade had occupied the châlet, and received one sharp reminder that the Boche gunner was still a nasty animal. A high-velocity shell had hit the edge of the gully not ten yards from them, and their adjutant and their intelligence officer had described to me their acrobatic plunge into the funk-hole.
In this way the spectator would have enjoyed amusement combined with the satisfactory sense that Nemesis is ever present in human affairs. I present the idea, for what it may be worth, to the concoctors of knockabout turns. The family tie is always strong on the music-hall stage. The acrobatic troupe is always a "Family": Pa, Ma, eight brothers and sisters, and the baby.
A gale of laughter followed, testifying to the effects of his antics. "All ready, Joe?" asked Sid Lascalla, the other member of the acrobatic trio. "Why, that isn't our call, is it?" asked Joe, who was relacing one of his shoes. "No, but it will come in a few minutes. Are you going to try the long swing and double catch this afternoon?" "I think we might as well, don't you?
Once more then Jules performed that acrobatic feat, and, twisting himself round with furious energy, hastened back to warn his comrades. "There's a fellow at the bottom of the pit already, and no doubt he'll be coming into the tunnel," he told them in a whisper. "He's got an electric torch, and that will be far worse than the light outside, for it'll show us up directly. Shove on into the open.
You are impressed with her sweetness and refinement, first of all, and the utter lack of show about her, as also with her brother who is a dapper young man of the very English type, who works with her, and acts as the dress-suited gentleman in this acrobatic ringplay of theirs.
Have you detected in my eyes ? 'No, said I, 'but in his. And you have eight times made me go to Saint-Thomas d'Aquin to see you listening to the same mass as he. 'Ah! she exclaimed, 'then I have made you jealous! Oh! I only wish I could be! said I, admiring the pliancy of her quick intelligence, and these acrobatic feats which can only be successful in the eyes of the blind.
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