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These came out at last, to stand a little while like stranded mariners on a lonesome beach watching for a rescuing sail, then parted and went clumping their various ways over the rattling board walks. Morgan stopped at the pump in the square to refresh himself with a drink.
They had nearly finished it when Jean came in, his gun on his arm, to say that Firmin had harnessed the horse to the luggage-cart, and it was awaiting them at the door of the chateau. "Send him in to me, and stand by the horse till we come out," said the millionaire. Firmin came clumping in. The millionaire gazed at him solemnly, and said: "Firmin, I am relying on you.
She would have added some comments for his benefit, had Miss Hampson not been standing upon the doorstep. "You're not coming, miss?" enquired Thompson civilly, but with evident astonishment. "No!" grunted Diana, turning indoors and clumping down the hall past Miss Todd's study with footsteps heavy enough to justify the demand for felt slippers.
He went into the kitchen, where the head man, who had been retained on the premises to act as special messenger in this time of need, was sitting in the chimney-corner smoking a comfortable pipe after his walk to and from Malsham. "You're wanted upstairs a minute, Joe," he said; and the two went clumping up the wide old oaken staircase. The witnessing of the will was a very brief business. Mr.
Great logs oozing molten pitch were burning noisily in the two rock fireplaces, the red flames swept up into the blackened chimneys to spread cheer within and to scatter sparks like little stars in the clear night without, the punch bowl had at last been allowed to stand empty not because men were through drinking but because stronger drink, men's drink, had appeared in many bottles upon the shelves, a game of poker was running in one corner of a room, a game of solo in another; yonder, seen through an open door, six men were shaking dice and wagering little and bigger sums recklessly; a little fellow with a wooden leg and a terribly scarred face was drawing shrieking rag time from an old and asthmatic accordion while four men, their big boots clumping noisily upon the bare floor, danced like awkward trained bears when the outer door, closed against the chill of the evening, was flung open and a stranger to MacLeod's settlement stood a moment framed against the outside night.
Jorgen Kofod, as a rule, came clumping in with great wooden shoes, and Jeppe used to scold him. "One wouldn't believe you've got a shoemaker for a brother!" he would say crossly; "and yet we all get our black bread from you." "But what if I can't keep my feet warm now in those damned leather shoes? And I'm full through and through of gout it's a real misery!"
He looked fearfully round the empty hall and at the windows, black against the night. Under the patter of the rain he heard footsteps distinctly. He went hastily clumping down the hall, and along the passage to the kitchen. His wife was setting his supper on the table. "My God!" he said. "I haven't been so frightened since '70." And he mopped his glistening forehead with a dish-cloth.
While these officers watched the commonalty clumping reluctantly upstairs toward the umbrella-rack, the Liberry Teacher paced sedately around the shelves, giving the books that routine straightening they must have before seven struck and the horde rushed in again.
"Per'aps 'e'll knock some of your pride out of you." I made no answer, but let him march me to my room, to the execution of the sentence. "There," he said, through the door, as he turned the key on me. "Per'aps that'll bring you to your senses." "Ephraim the stiff-neck!" I answered loudly; "Old Ephraim Stiff-neck! Stiff-neck!" "Ah," he answered, clumping down the corridor.
The silent steersman heard him frequently rustling papers on the chart table or clumping to the bridge or lolling on the port sills a restlessness that had about it something of the captive tiger. Retrospection he could not break the crowding spell of it, twist mentally as he would; and the counter-thought was dimly suicidal.
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