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Updated: June 13, 2025
"She started banging on the door agin, and arter talking among themselves for a time they moved off to the ship. They came back in three or four minutes, and the cook 'eld up something in front of the window. "'The boy 'ad got it, he ses. 'Now shall I open the door and let your missis in, or would you rather stay where you are in peace and quietness?
She heard him ride with clattering haste into the stone court, and soon after enter the house from the back, banging every door after him. She knew then that something had angered him that he was in that temper which makes a woman cry, but which a man can only relieve by noisy or emphatic movement of some kind.
"What would you do if you loved a woman and she promised to be your wife?" "I'd marry her," sitting down at the table. "What would you do in my place, and Madame had promised to marry you?" puffing quickly. "I'd marry her," answered Maurice, banging his fist on the table, "even if all the kings and queens of Europe rose up against me.
When he woke in the morning, he felt tolerably well, and was thankful that he had got out of that scrape. But before he could dress himself, he heard a terrible racket on deck. The steam whistle was shrieking, the bell was banging, and he heard the hoarse bellowing of the captain. It was certain that something had happened, or was about to happen.
Grace went back to her bench, and, seating herself, opened a magazine she had brought with her. She was turning the leaves interestedly when a sudden banging of the station door caused her to glance up. Her eyes were riveted in surprise upon Evelyn Ward, who, suit case in hand, hurried over to her with, "Oh, Miss Harlowe, I wonder if you would mind my going to New York with you.
Now with a bang of the heart he observed that the bottom sash stood open so that night breezes, mingling freely with the perfumes of her apartment, unhindered could bear in to her his tremulous love- signals. He set a low whistle upon the air. It was not louder, he felt, than the agitated banging of his heart that succeeded it. Again he whistled, and once again. There was a rustling from within.
Her apartments were 'way up at the top of a big, high building; and, just as I got to sleep, there was a frightful banging at the door, and a man a drunken man, evidently shouted to be let in. "Tom," he howled, "Tom, get up! Let me in! I want to see you; it's important. Let me in!"
Say, you think yourself some josher, don't you, telling me you were a kidnapper! You strung me like an onion. So you're really Jimmy Crocker after all? Where was the sense in pulling all that stuff about taking me away and divvying up the ransom? Aw, you make me tired!" The head was withdrawn, and Jimmy heard heavy steps followed by the banging of a door. Peace reigned in the library.
"But you ought to see the way they're treating him banging him around as if he were a dog." "Hm. He certainly doesn't look strong." "They work him to death, Colonel." The commanding officer laughed. "A redskin, working, must be a sight for sore eyes!" "But they don't feed him, sir." The outcast, wrapped close in his blanket, lifted his pinched face to them.
When you can't love, the only thing is to hate." "Oh!" said Nedda. Mr. Cuthcott again began banging on the little table. "Look at them, look at them!" His eyes wandered angrily about the room, wherein sat some few who had passed though the mills of gentility. "What do they know of life? Where are their souls and sympathies? They haven't any. I'd like to see their blood flow, the silly brutes."
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