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"If I take our friend Perenna's advice at all, I may as well take it thoroughly!" "There is only two minutes left." "Our friend Perenna spoke of three o'clock, not of two minutes to three. So " He crossed the boulevard, accompanied by his secretary general, the chief detective, and Mazeroux, and clambered up the slope of the fortifications opposite the house.
The natives went first, the white men quickly followed, and clambered into the boat, which at once joined the two others, and then all three lay to, and their occupants watched the Motutapu drifting before the wind, with the red flames enveloping her from stern to stem.
Each mine is like a little town. It has a main street and side alleys "pockets," they are called. There are "live" and "dead" pockets the dead are the worked out. At the first of the live pockets the skip was stopped by some invisible hand and we clambered over the side to a platform where a foreman met and conducted us to the task of the day. The mine was filled with red dust.
On these days he would seemingly take pains to give Belton fresh bruises to take home to his mother. Belton was by no means insensible to all these acts of discrimination. Nor did Bernard fail to perceive that he, himself, was the teacher's pet. He clambered on to the teacher's knees, played with his mustache, and often took his watch and wore it. The teacher seemed to be truly fond of him.
Our thickest clothing was penetrated by a searching though slight breeze, as our little rat of a pony, guided by the syce, clambered bravely up the brae that led through Tosari village. The road bore away to the left, and we were soon slipping and jolting down a mountain path that sank into a crater-like ravine. It was like a descent into the infernal regions. Disaster seemed inevitable.
The horses, faring better than their masters, for they found abundance to allay hunger in the lush, dank grass of the morass, were corralled in a clump of white ash, and the jaded men, groping about, clambered upon the gnarled roots of the trees to catch breath. They had been battling steadily for five hours against all the forces of Nature.
When, laughing gaily, they clambered on board, Carroll led the way to the tiny saloon, which just held them all. It was brightly lighted by two nickeled lamps; flowers were fastened against the paneling, and clusters of them stood upon the table, which was covered with a spotless cloth. What was even more unusual, it was daintily set out with good china and silver.
I inspected the harbor and its goodly basin with nothing in it and certain pink and blue houses, which surround it, and then, joining the last stragglers, I clambered up the side of the cliff to the downs. The races had already begun, and the ring of spectators was dense.
Accordingly he sprung lightly to the ground, but had scarcely alighted when a peculiar signal, something resembling a tremulous whistle, reached his ear, and he instantly clambered back again, fully satisfied that the whistle was intended as a signal, and that it concerned him, although whether from friend or foe he could only conjecture.
He handed Mary up to the seat by the driver, and clambered up at the back, when he hooked himself on somehow among the luggage. 'Dear Maulevrier, how delicious of you to come! said Mary, when they were rattling on towards Fellside; 'I hope you are going to stay for ages. 'Well, I dare say, if you make yourself very agreeable, I may stay till after Easter. Mary's countenance fell.
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