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He swung along beside her till they reached the top of the hill, fell behind without a word and mounted Glory. When he overtook Miss Satterly, he lifted his hat to her nonchalantly, touched up Glory with his spurs, and clattered away down the coulee, leaving the schoolma'am in a haze of yellow dust and bewilderment far in the rear.
The curtain at the door into the hallway bellied slowly out into the room and fell again. The cat looked toward it and opened its mouth for another howl. I thrust at it with my foot, but it refused to move. Hotchkiss stirred uneasily, and his pipe clattered to the floor. The cat was standing at my feet, staring behind me.
But the moments went slowly by, and with the exception of a milk cart which clattered gaily along, the Close remained deserted. Half-past seven in the morning, even on a fine August day, saw a good many people still in bed in an English country town.
But I shall see you again to-night." "Where?" "It is my secret. Bonne chance." She smiled and turned to leave the kitchen. Doggie clattered into the yard. "Been doin' a fine bit o' coartin', Doggie," said Private Appleyard from Taunton, who was sitting on a box near by and writing a letter on his knees. "Not so much of your courting, Spud," replied Doggie cheerfully. "Who are you writing to?
All the plates clattered for joy. "Now I will dance," said the tongs, and she danced. Oh! how high she could kick! 'The old chair-cover in the corner split when he saw her. 'The urn would have sung but she said she had a cold; she could not sing unless she boiled. 'In the window was an old quill pen. There was nothing remarkable about her except that she had been dipped too deeply into the ink.
The wheels rumbled and clattered over the rails and the clots of mud bounced up and down on the splintered boards of the floor. Chrisfield pillowed his head on his arm and went to sleep again, still smarting from the flush of his anger.
We clattered through, and down a long abutment. It almost made one dizzy to look over. A rail or a tree limb would ride down into this devil's maw, or a log would come swimming, its back bobbing in the muddy water, and then strike the smooth nose of a boulder and go to splinters. Beyond the mad river the mild morning world was a land of lazy quiet.
He stared at the two, raised a hand to his head as though to rub away the dream, found a pain too real for a dream, and then, like a crab which has grown almost too old to walk, waddled on hands and knees, slowly, from the room and melted silently into the dark beyond. A sharp noise of running feet leaped from the dust of the street and clattered through the doorway; the two turned.
A gurgle choked his utterance, and the magnifying glass clattered beside him as he fell inertly on the floor. Charles Miller, completing a hurried toilet, paused at the sound of a sharp rap on his bedroom door. "Come in," he called. "Ah, Henry, good morning," as the chauffeur stepped briskly over the threshold.
Next he stationed a signaller with a cord in either hand, above the parapet, to notify the men below exactly when to set the simple machinery in motion. His eight clattered out from the stables on the far side of the rock, and his own charger was brought to him, saddled. Then, in a second, it was evident why Raputs do not rule in Rajputana. "I ride too with my men!" declared Mahommed Gunga. "Nay!
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