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A groan escaped the men who had wrought this evil, and glancing at each in turn, I caught a glimpse of a quickening remorse, of a horror about to assume colossal dimensions. The Cock-a-whoop cowboy was seized with a palsy; great tears rolled down the cheeks of the gaunt Missourian; one man began to swear incoherently, cursing himself and his fellows; another prayed aloud.
A young man came to me today came into my room all cock-a-whoop, smiling to himself with the notion that he had only to name what he wanted, and I would give it to him and " He stopped abruptly, with a confused little laugh. He had been upon the brink of telling about Lord Plowden's discomfiture, and even now the story itched upon his tongue.
"I'm not an ambitious man, if you mean that," said he, soberly. "Besides this war business is far too serious for a man to think of his own interests. Suppose a fellow schemed and intrigued to get high rank and then proved inefficient it would mean death to hundreds or thousands of his men. As it is, I assure you I'm not cock-a-whoop about commanding a brigade.
Our amazement you may guess: M. de Radisson, suspicious of treachery and private trade and piracy on my part; I as surprised to learn that I had a well-wisher as I had been to discover an unknown foe; and Godefroy, all cock-a-whoop with his news, as is the way of the vulgar. "Ramsay," said M. Radisson, speaking very low and tense, "As you hope to live and without a lie, what does this mean?"
The psychological characteristics of a crowd are receiving attention at the hands of a French philosopher. M. Gustave Le Bon tells us that the crowd is always intellectually inferior to the isolated individual of average brains. "You have a nerve," remarked Cock-a-whoop Charlie. "You Coon Dogs," continued my brother, "are making this county too hot for the Chinese eh?" "You bet yer life!"
"Wheer's the Chinaman Quong?" I recognised the voice of a cowboy whom we had employed: a man known in the foothills as Cock-a-whoop Charlie. "He's here," Ajax answered quietly. A tall, gaunt Missourian, also well known to us as a daring bull- puncher, laughed derisively. "Here is he? Wal, we want him, but we don't want no fuss with you, boys. Yer white, but he's yaller, and he must go."
I was a jolly sight happier with a platoon." "At any rate," said I, "other people are cock-a-whoop. Look at them." The household, turned out like a guard by Evadne, emerged in a body from the house. Sir Julius beamed urbanely. Lady Verity-Stewart almost fell on the great man's neck. Young Charles broke into enthusiastic and profane congratulations.
But she would give me no satisfaction. She seemed all cock-a-whoop, begging your ladyship's pardon, to go somewhere and do something. And that same night she packed her carpet-bag and off she went. I asked her what I should say to Mr. John Scott if he should come home before she did. And she told me never to mind. I shouldn't have any call to say anything. She should see him before I could.
What d'you make of the situation, Dick? 'I think it's the worst since First Ypres, I said. 'Everybody's cock-a-whoop, but God knows why. 'God knows why, Blenkiron repeated. 'I reckon it's a simple calculation, and you can't deny it any more than a mathematical law. Russia is counted out. The Boche won't get food from her for a good many months, but he can get more men, and he's got them.
He hates you. They say that jealousy breeds murder oh! what if Jasper should try to kill you?" I laughed at the notion. I was so cock-a-whoop at that time, so elated with my love and my fair prospects, that I did not believe anything could harm me, and said so.
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