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"Then why did you pack him off?" inquired the unknown, picking from the fire with his delicate index-finger a burning ember, tossing it lightly on to his soft palm, and thence chucking it adroitly into the bowl of his little pipe.
"It frightens the fellow out of his wits," said Dune sharply. "You wouldn't like it yourself if you had a dozen fellows tumbling down upon your rooms and chucking your things out of the window." Rupert Craven said: "Well, I'm off anyhow. Work for me." He vanished into the shadow. Lawrence nodded. "Good-bye, Cards, old man.
I staggered in the direction in which I was pushed, and dropped on to a thwart, still half-stunned and confused, but sensible enough to understand the words uttered about me, and to see the dull yellow light of the lanterns held by the gangway lighting up a number of drink-flushed faces. "I don't want chucking down, I tell you," growled Bob Hampton. "Give's a hold of a rope and I'll drop down."
Didn't we just put one overr on 'em?" "We looped our trail," explained Tom to the puzzled girl. "If they're after us at all they probably went north on a blind trail. We monkeyed the trees all the way through this woods near here." "He means we didn't touch the ground," explained Archer. "We made seven footprints getting across the road to the fence and then we washed 'em away by chucking sticks.
"It is not goodness which counts to one's credit when one is simply chucked into it by Providence," he returned. Annie laughed. "To think of your speaking of Providence as 'chucking." "It is rather awful," admitted Von Rosen, "but somehow I never do feel as if I need be quite as straight-laced with you."
His first intention had been to chuck the drawing lightly across the table when it was completed, and so make nothing of it. But he had finished it with more care than he had at first intended; and then he had hesitated when he had finished it. It was too late now for that plan of chucking it over the table. On the Saturday evening when he came down from his room, Mr.
At first there was no sound at all, except a very soft occasional scrape of a boot-nail that betokened that the Major was seeking cover somewhere. Then, so suddenly that he started all over, Frank felt a hand on his arm and smelt a tobacco-laden breath. "See here, Frankie, my boy.... I ... I've got the thing on me.... What shall I do with it?... It's no good chucking it away: they'd find it."
"Out wid you, you cratur, it is Mr O'Rourke you'd be having a conversation wid, and he be chucking you under that chin of yours. Out wid you, Mary, and lave me to find my way on board. Is it a boat I want, when I can swim like St Patrick, wid my head under my arm, if it wasn't on my shoulders? At all events, I can wid my nappersack and musket to boot."
If I hadn't taken you someone else would, and more than likely you would not have fared so well as you have done, for some of them would have saved themselves all further trouble and risk, by chucking you overboard as soon as they were well out of the Pool." "Can't you put me ashore now, captain?"
Aunt Jule was extremely glad to meet "Marse Dyke." "Why didn't you bring the young missus wid yo?" questioned the negress. "What's that? Hope you didn't think I'd committed matrimony?" and the detective laughed lightly, at the same time chucking Aunt Jule under her fat chin. "Lor-a-massy, no, Marse Dyke. I meant Missy Nell," explained the black woman. "Miss Nell? Isn't she at home?"
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