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A stout, pointed staff of iron-wood, which I had been carrying to help me in my scramble up the mountain, slipped from my hand and fell clattering to the rocks.
When an apprentice has become pretty thoroughly acquainted with the river, he goes clattering along so fearlessly with his steamboat, night or day, that he presently begins to imagine that it is HIS courage that animates him; but the first time the pilot steps out and leaves him to his own devices he finds out it was the other man's.
Meantime, the old wounded gate-opener, bleeding and crippled, crept into a dark corner, and laid himself down, unnoticed, to die. Soon afterwards Hohenlo galloped into the town, clad in complete armour, his long curls floating in the wind, with about two hundred troopers clattering behind him, closely followed by five hundred pike-men on foot.
"Take heart of grace, man," said Campbell, "and dinna sit clattering your jaws there like a pair of castanets! I think there can be nae difficulty in your telling Mr. Justice, that ye have seen me of yore, and ken me to be a cavalier of fortune, and a man of honour.
A whistle from the guard, another from the engine, and they were off, clattering southward in the first of the morning sunshine. Inadequately attired, damp, hungry, and divorced from tobacco as the Count was, he yet could say to himself with the sincerest honesty, "I wouldn't change carriages with the Baron von Blitzenberg not even for a pair of dry socks and a cigar! Alas, poor Rudolph!
Edward put spurs to his horse, and arrived at the intendant's at full speed, making no small clattering in the yard below as he went in, much to the surprise of Sampson, who came out to ascertain what was the cause, and who was not a little surprised at perceiving Edward, who threw himself off the horse, and desiring Sampson to take it to the stable, entered the kitchen, and disturbed Phoebe, who was preparing breakfast.
Presently she stopped, for a heavy step was coming down. It did not sound like a woman's step. It came further down; she turned to fly. "Jacintha!" said a deep voice, that in this stone cylinder rang like thunder from a tomb. "Oh! saints and angels save me!" yelled Jacintha; and fell on her knees, and hid her head for security; and down went her candlestick clattering on the stone.
Gordon was much in her mind during the rest of the day; and as she traveled homeward in the afternoon, in the subway, across the ferry in the glowing sunset light, and in the clattering trolley car, her thought was busy with speculation about him, with comparison of him with Felix Brand, with recollections of what he had said and how he had looked, with conjecture as to the meaning of his expression when she asked him if he knew where Brand was.
Then Owen unhelmed and turned his horse to the gates, and after him we went clattering down the street. In a minute or two Thorgils came alongside me. "So that was the lady of the vow, surely. Well, you may be excused for making it, though indeed it is rash to bind oneself nay, but it seems that this is one of those matters whereon I must hold my tongue!"
The old woman's head disappeared, and the window was shut with a clattering noise. "She is a woman without education," remarked one of the ragged boys, making a face towards the closed window. The Prince entered the door and stumbled up the dark stairs, and after some further palaver obtained admittance to the curate's lodging.
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