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"Ah!" Here Lemercier pulled the check-string. "Will you object to a walk in this quiet alley? I see some one whom I have promised the Englishman to But heed me, Alain, don't fall in love with her." The lady in the pearl-coloured dress! Certainly it was a face that might well arrest the eye and linger long on the remembrance.
It so happened that, as they drew up before Miss Gower's modest door this morning, the modest door in question opened, and Denis Oglethorpe himself came out, and, of course, caught sight of Theodora North, who had just bent forward to pull the check-string, and so gave him a full view of her charming reante, un-English face, and, in her pleasure at seeing him, that young lady forgot both herself and Sir Dugald, and exclaimed aloud,
You will have repaired a wrong; and, pray, will you have compromised your dignity?" Caroline had recoiled into the corner of the carriage, her mantle close down round her breast, her veil lowered; but no sheltering garb or veil could conceal her agitation. The Colonel pulled the check-string. "Nothing so natural; you are the widow of the Head of the House of Vipont.
They were away in the country before the faintest gleam of daylight broke through the eastern clouds. Even then the way was still obscured. It was a stormy morning, and banks of murky clouds were piled up where the sun should have risen. The rain still fell. Soon they commenced to ascend a range of hills. At the summit Falkenberg pulled the check-string. "Henri," he said, "come in behind here.
Half an hour had passed when the carriage stopped suddenly; the count had just pulled the silken check-string, which was fastened to Ali's finger. The Nubian immediately descended and opened the carriage door.
The sobbing was so terrible in its intensity that he could not forbear from drawing the check-string, pushing his snowy head through the open window of the great carriage, and calling out, 'Who 's there? Who's making that noise? Immediately a very frightened and plain little girl stepped into view. It was Leucha Villiers.
Then, violently, pulling the check-string, "Stop," she gasped, "and will you have the goodness to get out?" "And so I got out," continued Fisherton, "and lost my time; and the heavy investment I made in getting myself up for the assignation new primrose gloves, and a shilling to the hair-dresser hang her! But, did you ever know anything like the prejudices that must prevail against you?
"My dear Madam, there is nothing to see," answered my Uncle Charles, who seemed rather perplexed. "This is not a market-day." "There'll be plenty I can see!" was my Aunt Kezia's reply; and, my Uncle Charles pulling the check-string, we alighted. My Aunt Kezia stood a moment, looking round. "You see, there is nothing to see," he observed. "Nothing to see!" she made answer.
Benjy promised to manipulate the check-string with care. The struggling natives were ordered to let the kite straighten the slack of the line gradually. "Are you ready, Ben?" "All right, father." "Got your hand on the check-string? Mind, it will pull hard. Now let go!" The natives obeyed.
It was only to feel the check-string tighten afresh upon his leg. It came fluttering down again, first drawn back by the weight of the log, and afterwards by the strong arm of the shikaree. The log was now removed; and the whole rope they had on hand a length of rather more than fifty yards was knotted in its place.
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