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The old soldier's words proved to be quite true, as, at the end of a few minutes, he led them to the little camp, all astir with the soldiery preparing to start horsemen, chariots, baggage, horses and camp followers, all were there, with the leaders fuming and fretting about making the last preparations, and eager to make the start.
"See, Nigel," whispered he, as he stood fuming and craving to be himself in the thick of the fighting that soon must chance. "Yonder tree shoots up clean and straight, and, as I fancy, there is clear vision downward to the Castle, and an easy drop and scamper hither again at the signal." "Let us mount," I said.
"Then there must be an inner place," cried the lieutenant, stamping his foot with rage. "Come and search again, my lads." They disappeared for another ten minutes or so, and then came back with the officer fuming with passion. "Fooled!" he exclaimed aloud, "fooled! Here, back to the boat."
How thrilling!... She smiled and dimpled as she met Judy's eye next morning, inviting the announcement. The days went on and Judy did not make it. Only as the lovely spring days, pale with windy sunlight or soft with fuming mists, slipped by, Judith blossomed as the rose. But it was a fierce blossoming, a fiery happiness, that Georgie could not understand.
He had been fuming about her condescension ever since he had met her; yet he no sooner received her polite note than he was in the best humor possible.
Hamilton called her, as the fancy moved him, Egeria, Boadicea, or Lady Godiva. Clinton came in fuming. "It is not possible," he cried, "that the Congress can be so mad as to be hoodwinked by this deep political scheme for concentrating the liberties of the United States under the executive heel.
But this fuming and groaning are just as unavailing as my raging and cursing by the death-bed of my mother, who was dead all the same and never got up again. "If this Publius were a Greek, a Syrian, an Egyptian nay, were he my own brother I tell you, Eulaeus, he should not long stand in my way; but he is plenipotentiary from Rome, and Rome is Fate Rome is Fate."
Then the doctor, humiliated and fuming, his forehead dropping with sweat, his cheeks white, stammered out: "I cannot think what has come over me; I have a stitch in my side. I started very well, but it has pulled me up." Jean asked: "Shall I pull alone with both oars for a time?" "No, thanks, it will go off."
And so when William, on coming home, would find pale, ghost-like linen garments hanging reeking from the embossed arm of the gas chandelier a large piece of dissolving soap on the centre of the table-cover, a great wooden tub in the place where his arm-chair should be, a lump of sodden rags in one of his slippers, and his wife toiling and fuming in the midst of all, with her hair in papers and her elbows in suds, with scarce the faintest hope for him of getting his evening meal served for more than an hour to come, what wonder if harsh words escaped him, repaid with words equally harsh from his excited partner, and followed by his flinging himself in a rage out of such a home, and returning near midnight with a plunging, stumbling step on the stairs, which sent all the blood chilly back to the heart of the unhappy woman, and quenched in sobs and tears the bitter words that were ready to burst forth!
"We will leave it all to her decision." During this dialogue, John Ferrier had stood fuming in the doorway, hardly able to keep his riding-whip from the backs of his two visitors. "Look here," he said at last, striding up to them, "when my daughter summons you, you can come, but until then I don't want to see your faces again." The two young Mormons stared at him in amazement.
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