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Miss Helen's awa to France, or some sic place, wi' her husband, Captain Bruce." The earl was sitting in the stern of the ferry-boat alone, no one being near him but Sandy, and Malcolm, who had taken the second oar. To old Sandy's communication he replied not a word asked not a single question more and was lifted out at the end of the five-minutes' passage just as usual.
As I brought the young lady in, the baby waked out of a five-minutes' nap that had cost about an hour's rocking, and I thought the roof would come off.
The night was dark, but the considerate messenger had provided a lantern; and, to anticipate my scruples, she said that the distance we had to go would not render it necessary for me to take my carriage a five-minutes' walk being sufficient to take us to our destination.
As the five-minutes bell began, sounding like a continuous wind-note in the great vaults overhead, solemn and persistent, Mabel drew a long breath and leaned back in her seat from the rigid position in which for the last half-hour she had been staring out at the wonderful sight.
It has been extensively used in the study of human locomotion, and of the successive poses of the arms and legs in various athletic exercises, and in such games as baseball and golf. A first-rate fencer of my acquaintance had a five-minutes' film of himself taken when fencing, giving 10,000 consecutive poses.
Then acting on a hint from Cheon, we took him to the banana clump. During the evening another five-minutes' deluge gladdened our hearts, as the "lavender" bugs and other sweet pests of the Territory insect pest saddened our bodies.
"Lulu, my daughter," he said, in a quiet tone, "put on your hat and coat, and take a five-minutes' run on the driveway." "Just now, papa?" she asked, looking up in surprise. "Yes, just now. When you think you have been out the specified number of minutes, you may come back; but I shall not find fault with you if you are not quite punctual, as you will not have a timepiece with you."
Lastly, the Squire in a high hat, six or seven paces in advance of his wife, in a small velvet toque. The rooks had ceased their wheeling and their cawing; the five-minutes bell, with its jerky, toneless tolling, alone broke the Sunday hush. An old horse, not yet taken up from grass, stood motionless, resting a hind-leg, with his face turned towards the footpath.
"You save a mile; you drop on the road by Combline's mill, and then there's another five-minutes' cut, and the rest's road." "Then, Crossjay, immediately after breakfast run round behind the pheasantry, and there I'll find you.
They all know their work well, and of course if there is anything to be done aloft, our own men go up. I don't think any of them will beat us in smartness." As the time approached for the start, the racers began to gather in the neighbourhood of the starting line; and as the five-minutes gun fired, the topsail went up, and they began to sail backwards and forwards near it.
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