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But at last came the wonderful day, and everything was in readiness. First, a forenoon of small explosive delights for the children then, as the day waned, a dinner eaten outdoors, picnic-fashion on the grass, under the spreading trees, beneath the shadows of the mighty mountain-tops.
My explosive would be no more expensive to manufacture than cordite." "So you see when some exceedingly convenient chance brought you in through our kitchen window it naturally occurred to me to invite you to stay and discuss the matter. You happen to be in a position in which you could be useful to us, and I think that we, on the other hand, might be of some assistance to you."
Munger concluded, "we could drop the invited supper and the dance, and simply have the theatricals." She bent upon Mr. Gerrish a face of candid deference that filled him with self-importance almost to bursting. "No!" he said, shaking his head, and "No!" closing his lips abruptly, and opening them again to emit a final "No!" with an explosive force which alone seemed to save him. "Not at all, Mrs.
In his strangely explosive manner Lord Ivy shouted suddenly: "Phil, you're a silly ass." "Push off!" commanded Lady Moya. I think, from her tone, the order was given more for the benefit of Aldrich than for myself. Certainly it was effective, for on the instant there was a heavy splash. Lord Ivy sniffed scornfully and manifested no interest. "Ah!" he exclaimed, "he prefers to drown!"
He could not reason as other men, and he became dangerous and explosive. Time after time I have seen him committed to prison, until he became a hopeless prison habitue. My experience has also shown me that physical deprivations are equally likely to lead to sharpened wits and perverted moral sense as to explosive and cruel violence.
We're right there now! and don't you think Uncle Thornton ought to be told how that brute's behaved ..." Hen intended only an argument; but it happened that her explosive statement sprang out like a switchman, finally shifting the train of the talk. "Oh!" said Cally, staring bewildered at her cousin. "Why where are the Works from here, I mean ...?"
The explosive balls had both flown true to the mark, invariably a fatal one in the case of the river horse. Frank as he fired had taken another rifle which the Houssas held in readiness for him, but there was no occasion for its use. The Fans came running up, and on seeing the great beasts lying in the stream, gave a shout of joy. "That will do for this evening," Mr. Goodenough said.
"Little Fellow!" I cried, exasperated with myself, "Where's Fort Gibraltar? I see where it ought to be, where the towers ought to be higher than that brush, but where's the fort?" The Indian screened his eyes and gazed forward. Then he came down with a thud, abruptly re-straddling his horse, and uttered one explosive word "Smoke." "Smoke? I don't see smoke! Where's the fort?" "No fort," said he.
"Huh! Some people haven't got the sense of a chicken with its head cut off." "Now you're shouting. Go for me, Doc. Then, mebbe, I'll do better next time." The doctor gave up this incorrigible patient and relapsed into silence, from which he came occasionally with an explosive "Huh!"
The attempt to lynch him that followed is just one of those explosive events that bulk largely in history and are in reality the least significant of occurrences. The history of the outbreak is a mystery.
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