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Six or seven times in that night, or early morning, was I fetched out of my carriage to deliver addresses. The Mayors of two of the towns were there to receive me, with crowds all placed in orderly fashion, with torches burning, everything quiet as death while I spoke, and finishing up only with the ringing of the departing bell of the train and the hurrahs of the people.
And fumbling in his waistcoat-pocket, he fetched out a glittering gold piece and tossed it deftly to the gallery. It fell upon the boards with a musical ring, and was quickly pounced upon by the man, who blushed and grinned awkwardly. "I don't like to take this, sir," he said. "It's five dollars." "Never mind what it is!
"Now will I wad a hogshead of claret," said Garschattachin, "that this is a message to tell us that these cursed Highlandmen, whom we have fetched here at the expense of so much plague and vexation, are going to draw off, and leave us to do our own business if we can."
Some months before Elder Witham had preached a sermon in which he had set forth the doctrine of predestination and the unpardonable sin, but I have to confess that none of us could remember what he had said. "I think it's in the Bible," Theodora added, and, going into the sitting-room, she fetched forth grandmother Ruth's concordance Bible and asked Addison to help her find the references.
I fetched him in by the scruff of the neck, stood him up against the bar, and said, "I think you're in for the soundest thrashing you've ever had in your life." "Sarves yer right, sawney," said the woman. "Plase let him off, sir. He thought yow was Swift Nicks." "Yow bitch!" he growled. "Yow set me on!" "Yow'm a ligger!" she retorted. "I towd yow the gen'leman was nowt like Swift Nicks."
Having so begun, he went on to say that there was one thing yet remaining for him to do, and that the greatest thing of all. He said that Barnaby and the young lady had not been fetched away from the Belle Helen as they were by any mere chance of accident, but that 'twas all a plan laid by a head wiser than his, and carried out by one whom he must obey in all things.
"It is now," broke in the voice from the shaft, "an utter impossibility for me to catch any train in the United States." "I am dreadfully sorry," said Sacharissa. "Isn't there an ax in the house?" The butler mournfully denied it. "Then get the furnace bar." It was fetched; nerve-racking blows rained on the grille; puffing servants applied it as a lever, as a battering-ram, as a club.
She coloured up, dipped her pen, and looked at her unfinished letter. He wandered off a step or two, and returned. "Do you know this thing of Hamerton's?" he inquired, in a casual way, extending the volume he held. She took it, laying down her pen. A considerable literary discussion ensued, during which he fetched more books from the shelves to show her.
He therefore stood out into the breeze, and, after half an hour, tacked in-shore, and fetched well to windward of the low point; but, finding no vessels, he stood out again. Thus had he made three or four tacks, and had gained, perhaps, six or seven miles, when he perceived signals of recall made to leeward, enforced with guns. "Mr Sawbridge wants us to come back, Mesty."
As Félicité Maür had seen, in her time, things that no self-respecting maison de santé would stand for, I began to believe that I should have to do something. I rose reluctantly. I was about fed up with Ching Po, myself. I helped Madame Maür out of her chair, and fetched my hat. Then I looked for Follet, to apologize for leaving him.
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