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At the same instant I heard a click, which I did not understand then, but which I now know to have been the head of the hat-pin striking the register. "Horrified past all power of speech and action, for I saw that he had intended this blow for me, I cowered against the stairs, waiting for him to pass out. This he did not do at once, though the delay must have been short.
Now Staupitz, Cocardasse, and Passepoil went in their turn through the main door and drew it behind them. Lagardere seated himself at the table with a sigh of relief as he heard the heavy feet trampling down the passage, but his relief did not last long. His quick ears caught a sound that was undoubtedly the click of a key in a lock, followed by the shuffle of cautiously retiring feet.
If she had given the last click she certainly would have killed the king, and one can imagine the complications that would have resulted in those uneasy times.
And he had but to click his heels together and make his queer foreign bow that displayed the top of his fair head, and to kiss the fingers of the "gnädige Frau," to win the hearts of all the women. His English, in itself, was no small charm, for, though he had conquered his w's and th's, his use of idiom was ever new. It was of the Baron that Dr.
Yellow, with here and there a ragged rock and a sage brush or two, the shadows of the rocks and brush black like spilled ink, and the sand glaring back at them with almost quivering brightness, the circle shot back and forth as the light followed the swinging rope. But no living thing was in sight. A click and all was black again. "Nothing doing," exclaimed Bob.
But Pete was already moving away in the darkness. "Shall I call the Deemster, Peter?" "Aw, no, ma'am, no, not worth bothering him. Good everin', Miss Christian, ma'am, good everin' to you." Auntie Nan and Martha were standing in the light at the open door when the iron gate of the garden swung to with a click, and Pete swung across the road.
He had a superior eye-glass dangling round his neck, but unfortunately had such flat orbits to his eyes and such limp little eyelids that it wouldn't stick in when he put it up, but kept tumbling out against his waistcoat buttons with a click that discomposed him very much. 'Oh, I say. Look here! My father's not in the way, and won't be in the way to-day, said Barnacle Junior.
The blood rushed to her face, and her whole form trembled with an uncontrollable agitation; her bosom heaved with emotion, and the beatings of her heart were heard as plain as the click of the clock on the mantlepiece. Stooping over the dead body she clasped it in her arms, and pressed the bloodless and inanimate lips in a fond embrace. It was the promptings of a mother's heart.
Fursey's needle grated with monotonous regularity against her thimble. At that moment knocked at my small soul for the first time the problem of life. Suddenly, without moving, I said: "Then why did she take me in?" The rasping click of the needle on the thimble ceased abruptly. "Took you in! What's the child talking about? Who's took you in?" "Why, mamma.
Passing unchallenged through the long corridor that led to Lakely's office, he caught a fresh impression of action and vitality from the click of the tape machines in the subeditors' office, and a glimpse through the open door of the subeditors themselves, each occupied with his particular task; then without time for further observation he found himself at Lakely's door.
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