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Here she reached the garden-gate and lifted it scientifically off its hinges and then back again when she had passed through. Old Squinny's gate had not opened in the ordinary way within the memory of man. It was stoutly bound to the gate-post by several twists of rusty chain.
He would also stand for hours on the top of a monolith he thought it was a gate-post and try to crack his cattle-whip like a pistol-shot. He had to climb to a height to get the lash off the ground at all.
Finally, she ran out of the gate and up the street to the one fine house of which the street boasted. She stole up to the door and fastened the string of the balloon to the door bell, gave the bell a jerk and fled. As she ran down the street, a boy, leaning against the gate-post next her own, cried, "What's the rush, Lydia?" "Oh, hello, Kent! Did you like the circus?" "The best ever!
Ah, well we were just talking of you; the Captain was describing how he first met you " "Bowing to a gate-post, mam, on my word as a sailor and a Christian, it was a gate-post, I say, an accurs a confoundedly rotten old stick of a gate-post." "I remember," sighed Barnabas.
His cousins were in a triumphant temper of good nature, and willingly consenting, he was perched between them, but for one moment Beatrice's complacency was diminished as Uncle Roger called out, "Ha! Fred take care! What are you doing? you'll be against the gate-post don't bring his head so short round. If you don't take more care, you'll certainly come to a smash before you get home."
"And it may be Whittle, for he's never been to the yard these three weeks, going away without saying any word at all; and I owing him for two days' work, without knowing who to pay it to." The possibility led them to alight, and at least make an inquiry at the cottage. Farfrae hitched the reins to the gate-post, and they approached what was of humble dwellings surely the humblest.
I'm jest settin' around waitin' to die; and, between you and me and the gate-post, Dr. Eaton, I'm not used to jest waitin'. I'm used to doin' somethin' if I am an old woman." "That's just it you are used to doing something. Now here's something that you can do that's worth while.
"I am Martin, Hereward's man, upon my master's business." "What is mine is Hereward's, God bless him," said the man, struggling into a garment, and hurrying out to the shed. "There is a ghost against the gate!" cried he, recoiling. "That is my matter, not yours. Get me a horse to put the ghost upon." Torfrida lay against the gate-post, exhausted now; but quite unable to think.
"That was nate," said Michael Hennessey, sententiously. Richard stood leaning on the gate-post to recover he breath. His face was colorless, and the crimson line defined itself sharply against the pallor; but the rage was dead within him. It had been one of his own kind of rages, like lightning out of a blue sky. As he stood there a smile was slowly gathering on his lip.
Major Baring slipped the bridle over the gate-post and took her hand in his. The grip of his fingers was very strong and reassuring. "Come," he said kindly, "let us go and look for this bogey of yours!"
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