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Then the wretched man, unable to break his collar, like that of a chained wild beast, became tranquil once more; only at intervals a sigh of rage heaved the hollows of his chest. There was neither shame nor redness on his face. He was too far from the state of society, and too near the state of nature to know what shame was.
Both sprang down to seize it: their heads encountered, but Heriot had the quicker hand; he caught the letter, and cried 'Off ! to me, as on another occasion. This time, however, he was not between me and the usher. I was seized by the collar, and shakes roughly. 'You will now understand that you are on a footing with the rest of the boys, you Roy, said Boddy.
At last he pretended to be overcome by the heat, and went out of the room, to my great relief; but when the passage about the early village cock came, he crew outside the door, where he had been waiting expressly to do it. Nobody could help laughing; and the boys screamed so that Mr. McQuinch took two of them out by the collar. I believe he was glad of the excuse to go out and laugh himself.
Billy was on his feet in an instant, shaking the snow off as a dog shakes off water. “Why, Billy, you look like a snow-man,” Maida laughed. “I feel like one,” Billy said, wiping the snow from his eyes and from under his collar. “But don’t be discouraged, my hearties, up with it again. I’ll be more careful the next time.”
The mass of heated air was so powerful that it swung and tossed the Red Cloud about as if it were a wisp of paper. "We must do something!" cried Mr. Damon, beginning to take off his collar and vest. "I'm choking!" "Lie down in the bottom of the car," suggested Mr. Sharp. "The smoke won't trouble you so much there."
Into the castle poured the howling buccaneers. But still the governor fought on, with his wife and daughter clinging to his knees and beseeching him to surrender, and the blood from his wounded forehead trickling down over his white collar, until a merciful bullet put an end to the vain struggle. Here were enacted the old scenes.
"Oh, how nice!" said Janetta. But she was a little surprised too. Had not the Adairs plenty of flowers without receiving contributions from Sir Philip's conservatories? "And you have a dog, Margaret?" as a pretty little white Esquimaux dog came trotting into the room. "What a darling! with a silver collar, too!" "Yes, I like a white dog," said Margaret, tranquilly.
Naturally I began to say to myself, 'Where have I seen a collar lately? A collar all by itself? And I remembered what, Bill?" Bill frowned heavily to himself, and shook his head. "Don't ask me, Tony. I can't By Jove!" He threw up his head, "In the basket in the office bedroom!" "Exactly." "But is that the one?" "The one that goes with the rest of the clothes? I don't know. Where else can it be?
He took his chair on the kitchen-table as if it were a throne. He wore huge moccasins of moose-hide on his feet, and for special occasions like this added a paper collar to his red woolen shirt. He took off his coat and laid it across his chair for a cushion.
Hammond's pistol became fouled by a cap, and the cylinder would not revolve. The Rebel had two charges left. Quick work was now necessary. Another spurring of his horse brought him within arm's length of the flying Rebel, whereupon he seized his coat collar with both his hands, and dragged him backward from his saddle.
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