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Shortly before reaching Crewe, the old gentleman having smoked three cigars with fierce vigour, left the carriage. Mannix, feeling disinclined for more tobacco, went to sleep. At Holyhead he was wakened from a deep and dreamless slumber. A porter took his kit-bag and wanted to relieve him also of the gun-case, the fishing-rod, and the gabardine.
Yet from time to time with a glance at the gun-case at his feet, he spoke with cold clearness: "We must overtake them before night." Chakkra, who had ceased singing, would bow, saying: "The trail is hot, Sahib. They are not far." Steadily beneath them, Gunpat Rao straightened out, lengthening his roll, softening his pitch. Nels was not trotting now, but in a long low run.
The gutter will defend you against their fire, they cannot see you, but when they start a blaze, you can accurately aim at each one. That is what I wanted to say." "Very well," said Lorand, taking his cartridges from his gun-case. "You'd better use shot instead of bullets," remarked Topándy. "It's easier to hit with shot when one is shooting in the dark, especially in the case of a large company.
Kincaid's worn leather gun-case, and an oblong japanned box which Bobby knew contained shells. For an instant he struggled with himself. "He he had to go to California," he choked; and looked away quickly to hide the tears that sprang to his eyes. Mr.
It was a long, long reverie, and it covered storm, sudden freshets, death in every manner and shape, violent and awful rage against red tape half frenzying a mind that knows it should be busy on other things; drought, sanitation, finance; birth, wedding, burial, and riot in the village of twenty warring castes; argument, expostulation, persuasion, and the blank despair that a man goes to bed upon, thankful that his rifle is all in pieces in the gun-case.
"Yes; but when will he give it to me? If you have to write to England for it, I warn you I shan't believe in it." "No, my little friend, we have only to go up to my room and open my gun-case. That's soon done." "Then, let's go at once." "Come on," said Sir John; and he went out, followed by Edouard. A moment later, Amelie, still absorbed in thought, rose and left the room.
There was a square writing-table in the window, with a wooden chair drawn up in front of it. There were many pipes, old and new, and whips and hunting-crops; and a gun-case standing by the wall and some crossed weapons on the wall. I saw a pair of spurs in one corner, and, flung carelessly on the writing-table, as though the owner might return at any moment, there was a glove.
After supper the constable found a chance to see Jessie alone. She was working over the last touches of the gun-case. "When it's finished who gets it?" he asked, sitting down gracefully on the arm of a big chair. She flashed a teasing glance at him. "Who do you think deserves it?" "I deserve it," he assured her at once. "But it isn't the deserving always who get the rewards in this world.
He sent the boy a ten-pound note and then departed, pleasantly fussed over by his wife, to seek new vigour in the mud of Germany. Frank Mannix, seventeen years old, prefect and hero, stretched himself with calm satisfaction in a corner of a smoking carriage in the Irish night mail. Above him on the rack were his gun-case, his fishing-rod, neatly tied into its waterproof cover, and a brown kit-bag.
There were other signs about of the occupant's love of the sweet science; for there were a tuning-fork, a pitch-pipe, and a metronome on the chimney-piece, a large musical-box on the front of the book-case, some nondescript pipes, reeds, and objects of percussion; and, to show that other tastes were cultivated to some extent, there were, besides, several golf-clubs, fishing-rods, a cricket-bat, and a gun-case.
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