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Joan stirred restlessly, and her fingers drummed idly on the side of the boat. And Vane because he was a man, and because the girl so close to him was more than passing lovely said things under his breath. The parable was rather too plain.
Do you know what I am, Tommy?" "I am prepared to hear," said the other. "A coward! It sounds nice, doesn't it? I am a shirker, a man who would be drummed out of any regiment." "Rot!" said Wratislaw. "In that sort of thing you have the courage of your kind. You are the wrong sort of breed for common shirking cowards.
It pleased the stranger for a moment to trace a resemblance between the fallen fortunes of the Stuart Prince and his own fallen fortunes, as dethroned Dictator of the South American Republic of Gloria. 'London is my St. Germain's, he said to himself with a laugh, and he drummed the national hymn of Gloria upon the balcony-rail with his fingers.
Clephane.... Very nice, indeed.... Be delighted!... In ten minutes, I'll be there. Good-bye." He pushed back the instrument. "Mrs. Clephane has telephoned that she must see me at once. Meanwhile the key-word, my friend." Carpenter drummed on the table, and frowned at the door that had closed behind Harleston. "The man's bewitched," he muttered.
"That seems to be perfectly authentic; it is authentic, and it proves that this fellow was a decent fellow and a brave soldier once; that is a fine record of service." He drummed his fingers on the desk and spoke aloud. "Is Gurn really Gurn, then, and have I been mistaken from start to finish in the little romance I have been weaving round him? How am I to find the key to the mystery?
"After a brief rest to recover breath, the victor jumped over his late rival's body, took a short leap into the air, gave a back kick of contempt, flew up on the log, and looked round as though seeking for female applause. But the hens, with apparently never a thought of him, still kept up their dancing. Presently he, too, sounded his love call and drummed his accompaniment.
"Let us waive the point." "The color of his liveries, Joseph, not the color of his whiskers." "My dear Lavinia, you are thinking of 'Sea-green Shaw, so called from the extraordinary liveries he adopted for his servants in the year when he was sheriff." "I think not, Joseph." "I beg your pardon, Lavinia." Richard Turlington's knotty fingers drummed impatiently on the table.
The band began to play the tune with which the White Hussars, from the date of their formation, preface all their functions. They would sooner be disbanded than abandon that tune. It is a part of their system. The man straightened himself in his chair and drummed on the table with his fingers.
Something that Meadows knew not at the time, nor I till long after, was of the treasonable plot unearthed in the rebel army, and that two or three of the participants had been punished for the sake of example, and the less guilty ones drummed out of the camp.
Then Leroy had to catch a sample of the walking grass, and we were ready to leave when a parade of the barrel-creatures rushed by with their push-carts. They hadn't forgotten me, either; they all drummed out, 'We are v-r-r-iends ouch! just as they had before. Leroy wanted to shoot one and cut it up, but I remembered the battle Tweel and I had had with them, and vetoed the idea.