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For, while the lion roared and the pistols banged, and we reporters tumbled over each other to get a glimpse of the attack of the lion on the strong man, or vice versa, lo! a voice below shouted to close the trap, and the same instant a board from below shot across the opening and completely obliterated our view. "We'll have to fake that part of the fight," said a reporter.
By Jove!" he continued, flushing up at the sight of the bitter sneer upon the man's face, "it is not part of my duties to my client, but here's a hunting crop handy, and I think I shall just treat myself to " He took two swift steps to the whip, but before he could grasp it there was a wild clatter of steps upon the stairs, the heavy hall door banged, and from the window we could see Mr.
"Nobody can expect to keep on looking as they did when they were ten years old." Abruptly she moved toward the door. "There's water in the pitcher, an' there's soap and towels here, I guess," she remarked. "When you get fixed up, come downstairs; supper'll be on the table." The door banged and she was gone.
"But won't Eleanor's dullness afflict Buster?" he said, doubtfully; then because at that moment Edith banged into the room to show her shuddering mother a garter snake she had captured he added, with complacent subtlety, "as for food, I, personally, prefer a dinner of herbs with an interesting woman, than a stalled ox and Eleanor." Which caused Edith to say, "Is Eleanor uninteresting, father?"
His lips were tightly pressed. His oaths and his anguish were in his soul, but unuttered. "Thanks very much... It's very kind of you." We gathered up our note-books and were punctiliously polite. His door banged. Phillips was first at his typewriter, working it like a machine-gun, in short, furious spasms of word-fire.
The sash of the window hung inward, the woodwork splintered and the spikes twisted, admitting a roaring current of wind and powdery snow. With a cry of consternation and rage the skipper sprang in, banged and bolted the door behind him, and went straight to the rafter across the middle of the ceiling. He removed the square of wood and the hollow behind it was empty!
"But you know those other chaps banged away at us and they didn't bother their heads a cent whether they upset our whole business or not," objected Andy, belligerently. "Two wrongs never make a right, Andy."
Then he was battered to and fro as a rat is shaken by a dog to and fro on the floor, up and down, and around in great circles, but his eyes were red and he held on as the body cart-whipped over the floor, upsetting the tin dipper and the soap dish and the flesh brush, and banged against the tin side of the bath.
At last the cart stopped at a house, where the hamper was taken out, carried in, and set down. The cook gave the carrier sixpence; the back door banged, and the cart rumbled away. But there was no quiet; there seemed to be hundreds of carts passing. Dogs barked; boys whistled in the street; the cook laughed, the parlour maid ran up and down-stairs; and a canary sang like a steam engine.
At any other time, Balder himself would have shown more consideration. Most extraordinary noises proceeded from the water-tap in the kitchen. At last the kitchen door banged, and Balder re-appeared again. I expressed my regret that I had no methylated spirit, but he said it did not matter, and catching hold of a bottle of my expensive brandy, poured a lot into the lamp.
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