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"You are most kind, most indulgent to me, Miss Verity. Superfluous, I would say, to assure you that my colleague adopted this deplorable course without my knowledge or sanction. He sprang it on me like a bomb-shell. As a Christian my conscience, as a gentleman my sense of fair play, condemns his action." "Yes yes I sympathize.
The clarionet nodded, and, turning to his comrades, winked gravely as he pronounced the magic word "Banging-smash." Next moment there was a burst as if a bomb-shell had torn up the street, and this was followed up by a series of crashes so rapid, violent, and wildly intermingled, that the middy's heart almost leapt out of him with delight!
The consequence was a swelling of the parts and an inflammation, that lamed the old grenadier as completely as if his leg had been carried off by a bomb-shell; and he was now reclining along the top of the toldo, unable to stand upon his feet. For this reason, being in no condition to join his young masters on their pedestrian excursions, he was necessarily left behind.
The general replied, "Your highness must join the staff of the commander-in-chief if you wish to look on without being mixed up in the general engagement." "But the staff are in constant danger, as well as the rest," was his answer, "and I might be struck by a ball or a bomb-shell." "Oh!" cried Caprara, "you wish to look on without endangering your life! Then go upto the top of yonder mountain."
It is the bolas, an innocent-looking thing, but in reality a missile weapon as deadly in practised hands as a grenade or bomb-shell. That the giant savages intend casting them is clear. Their gestures leave no room for doubting it; they are only waiting until the boat is near enough. The fugitives are well-nigh despairing, for she is almost near enough now.
"There will be some papers out to-morrow that will be a bomb-shell." "About America? Oh, they have been blown up so often! You, for instance, have been doing your best for months." His perfunctory laugh answered the mockery of her charming eyes. "Well I wish I could make William hear reason." Lady Tranmore held herself stiffly. The Christian name seemed to her an offence.
I paid the boy at the telegraph office five dollars not to talk about the matter to a human soul, and threatened to have him dismissed if he did, so the bomb-shell was kept in until this afternoon. Richard replied to the telegram with characteristic directness: Delighted to be in at the fight. Seven of us rabid suffragists, two on the fence, and a half roast pig will convert the other.
And her question shifted the universe back upon its ultimate foundations. It set a problem deeper far than the mere origin of everything. It touched the cause. "Why?" she inquired blandly. It seemed a bomb-shell had fallen among them. Maria had closed her eyes again. Her face was calm as a cabbage, still as a mushroom in a storm. She claimed the entire discussion somehow as her own.
There was nothing to be done but to awaken his brother-in-law, which he did with such a tremendous thump on the back, that the colonel sprang up with the feeling that he had been struck by an enemy's bomb-shell. But Max tapped him kindly on the shoulder, saying, "It is only a gentle warning from your wife that we must all beat a retreat."
After that a line will probably be constructed across the centre of the continent from east to west, and the coastal trunk line completed along the north-west from the Kimberley district to Port Darwin, and thence to Point Parker. Just before the last mail left with this letter, the Parkes Government in New South Wales exploded like a bomb-shell.
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