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Broadwood, equally confident that the whole force of the enemy was on his flank on the right bank of the Modder, marched heedlessly into the ambush which De Wet had laid for him in the Korn Spruit, on the direct line between two adjacent British posts, and which neither of them had discovered, although the usual patrols had been sent out.
"Well, shall we head for that elevation, and see what we can find?" asked Bob, who was inclined to be a little impatient. "Wait a bit. It would be ten times better if we could only track the greedy pack direct; but that's a hard proposition, here on the open," Frank observed. "Well, what can we do then?" his chum asked.
DIRECT it, that's their word; but we're not going to be humbugged." "Too wide awake, I should say." "I should say so too. We are to be told off for the Bank of England, and they are to show it to us at the other end of Cheapside." "Bank of England," said Mr. Hardy, laughing; "that's a joke. You might run your heads a long while against that before you get in.
Fardorougha turned his eyes upon the speaker, then upon his master, and successively upon two other assistants who were in the office. "What is this?" said he, "what is this? I'm very weak will you get me a dhrink o' wather? God help me God direct me! I'm an unhappy man; get me a dhrink, for Heaven's sake! I can hardly spake, my mouth and lips are so dry."
It seems that in the morning when they set out the wind blew, as the sailor said, by his pocket-compass, at N.W. by W. So they directed, or rather resolved to direct, their course N.W.
As a matter of fact, he was debating within himself the advisability of asking his host a few direct and pointed questions. A fine regard for Striker's position deterred him, and to this regard was added the conviction that his host would probably tell him to mind his own business and not go prying into the affairs of others.
The old government officials, when they came into direct contact with the governed population, showed themselves to be pedantic, and estranged from the practical working of life by their occupation at the green table; but they left behind them the impression of toiling honesty and conscientiously for justice.
And a knight who had ridden out of Stuttgard with Ebbo had told him that it was no wonder that this had been his reception, for not only was Schlangenwald an old intimate of the Markgraf, but Swabia was claimed as a fief of Wurtemburg, so that Ebbo's direct homage to the Emperor, without the interposition of the Markgraf, had made him no object of favour. "What could be done?" asked Ebbo.
Among those lost was Robert N. McNeely, who was on his way to take up his duties as American consul at Aden. By the middle of January German engineers had succeeded in repairing the railroad bridges and roadbed destroyed during the Serbian campaign and thus reopened direct communication between Berlin and Constantinople.
"We must not forget the difference between alternating and direct current, my boy," said the Phoenix as it flew down again. "An important problem, that. Where is our wire? Ah, there we are. The pliers, please." "Do you need any help up there?" David asked. "No, everything is coming along beautifully, thank you. I shall have everything finished in a flash."
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