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Mistah Clement J. Cleggett, sah, the ownah of dis hyeah boat?" "Yes." The negro fumbled in an inner pocket and produced a card. He gave it to Cleggett with a deferential bow, and then announced sonorously: "Miss Genevieve Pringle, sah in de cah-age, sah a callin' on Mistah Clement J. Cleggett."
Jonathan fumbled up something in a crumpled piece of paper, and said sobbingly "Let it be this new half-crown, Grace: I won't say, keep it always; only when you want to use that and more, I humbly ask you'll please come to me."
He got up at once one of those lightning alterations of his from the discursive to the precise. "Va bene," says he, "you shall be satisfied in a moment." He fumbled for his pocket-book, and from that selected three papers, which he handed to me in silence and in due order. They were: 1.
"Do you smell anything?" said Wilfrid, and hung with frightful suspense on the verdict. "A fellow upset beer on me." "It is beer!" sniffed Braintop. "What on earth shall I do?" was the rejoinder; and Wilfrid tried to remember whether he had felt any sacred joy in touching Emilia's dress as they went up the steps to the door. Braintop fumbled in the breast-pocket of his coat.
"I beg your pardon," said Susan, "but would you mind telling me where " she had forgotten the address, fumbled in her bosom for the cards, showed him Blynn's card "how I can get to this?" The policeman nodded as he read the address. "Keep on this way, lady" he pointed his baton south "until you've passed four streets. At the fifth street turn east. Go one two three four five streets east.
With difficulty Mex turned the man upon his back. A while he lay still. His breathing was labored and he twitched convulsively. The entire nervous system was suddenly depressed. Mex stood motionless beside the pallet, her eyes riveted upon him. Presently his livid lips opened, and he spoke gaspingly, "I'm done for." His hand fumbled about his heart. He was falling into syncope.
He's all right!" the other man objected. "I ain't takin' chances," growled Bill. "I'm goin' to have some say about it, too." He fumbled in his pocket, and drawing forth some stout twine proceeded to tie Jamie's hands securely behind his back. Then he tied Jamie's feet, and gave him a push to the rear. "Now I guess you'll stay with us all right," he grinned. "Aw, leave the kid be!
Like the roar of the waves of the sea rose the yell of the Washingtonians: "Who tied the score when the score was rolling? Who tied the score when the score was rolling? Brewster, yes? Well, I guess! She tied the score when the score was rolling!" Then Sahwah's luck turned and she could make no more baskets. She began to feel weak again and fumbled the ball more than once.
"There are violets just behind us," he continued. "Can't you smell them? But whatever you do, don't tell anybody of those, or we shan't keep our field to ourselves for a day. And look here." He had turned over on to his face, and Richard and I did the same, whilst Sandy fumbled among the bleached grass and brown leaves. "Hyacinths," said Richard, as Sandy displayed the green tops of them.
For several seconds he fumbled with it, turning it first upon one side and then upon another, and at last raised the lid. He thrust in his hand and then stopped as one stupefied. "Empty! Empty!" he gasped in an almost audible whisper. "The plan of Montezuma's mine is gone! Gone!!" A moment he stood and gazed around upon the faces of those in the room and then collapsed upon the floor.
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