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At this moment a calf's head was brought in, very tender and succulent, and the rest of the quotation was drowned in the clatter of plates and dishes. At last the voice emerged from the tumult: "Which I have seen in these fens, whither Satan and his imps do often resort to cool themselves in these stagnant waters.
There was no clatter of hoofs or accoutrements, my father said, but a soft sound all the while like the beating of a bird's wing; and a black shadow lay like a pool about the feet of all. The drummer stood upon a little knoll just inside the gate, and beside him the tall trumpeter, with hand on hip, watching them gather; and behind them both my father, clinging to the gate.
As they advanced, others pressed forward, until their weight became too great for the ladder, which, breaking, precipitated about a dozen of them to the ground, where they fell one upon the other, making a great clatter with their heavy coats of mail.
"Go down and ask Papa Bonneton to come here at once. Say it's important. Hurry!" With an understanding nod Valentine disappeared inside the tower and the quick clatter of her wooden shoes echoed up from below. "But what will you tell him?" gasped the lady. "I shall tell him you were concerned in that crime last night. I don't know what it was, I haven't read the papers, but he has."
And as he passed around the curve of the driveway to the gate he looked back and the shadows of the old house were stretching out toward him on the grass. He had had a sudden idea. There in the front hall it had occurred to him that there was one person at least who might know something. He had recalled that last night spent in the upstairs ell bedroom, the voices, the clatter of a car.
The elevated trains still clatter over the frogs at the turning into Wabash Avenue; the surface cars clang their bells; the crowds pour up in the morning from the runway leading to the Illinois Central trains; life goes on.
What wind there was blew dead on-shore, which was not as he would have had it. He heard the splash of the lead as he and the white man Charly made their breakfast in the little stern cabin. Then there was a clatter of blocks, and on coming out again he found the others swinging a boat over.
This was a very much grimmer business than crawling through the long grass for a shot at the prairie antelope, when in case of success it had scarcely seemed worth while to pack the tough and stringy venison back to the homestead. By and bye he heard the clatter of a displaced stone again, and this time it was so distinct and near that it puzzled him.
The clatter of horses below in the valley road and the shouting of commands were the signs that the regiment was meeting. The road turned. On a kind of platform, just before it joined the main highway, a few feet above it, we halted to wait our order and we saw the guns go by! Only half the regiment was to halt at Bar-le-Duc.
I never saw a finer turkey, finer beef, or greater prodigality of sauce and gravy; and my Travellers did wonderful justice to everything set before them. It made my heart rejoice to observe how their wind and frost hardened faces softened in the clatter of plates and knives and forks, and mellowed in the fire and supper heat.
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