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Soames, in order to put his theories to the test, had temporarily abstracted half-a-dozen such boxes from the study and the dining-room and had hidden them. Leroux, finding, as he supposed, that he was out of cigars, had simply ordered Soames to get him some more. "Er about a dozen boxes er Soames," he had said; "of the same sort!" Was ever a man of business submitted to such an ordeal?
There were men too, half-a-dozen or so standing at the doors of the stables, while others leaned from the windows. One or two lanthorns just kindled glimmered here and there in the semi-darkness; and in a corner two smiths were shoeing a horse.
Instead of all this, on entering a common French carpeted room, he perceived, on an ordinary little French sofa, the sovereign crosslegged, and alone; two small sofas, half-a-dozen chairs, and several wax-lights, were all the ornaments of this very plain saloon. But the Sultan was diamonded all over, and fully made amends for the plainness of his reception-room.
'I'll knock you down if you come near the door, replied the locksmith. 'You had better go to bed! Simon made no answer, but gathering himself up as straight as he could, plunged head foremost at his old master, and the two went driving out into the workshop together, plying their hands and feet so briskly that they looked like half-a-dozen, while Miggs and Mrs Varden screamed for twelve.
"I have lived fifty years with that man, without ever hearing half-a-dozen gold pieces chink in my purse," she went on. "Oh! if I did not hope that you might save your property, I would never have brought you and your mother into my prison." "But how can you survive it?" cried Joseph naively, with the gayety which a French artist never loses. "Ah, you may well ask!" she said. "I pray."
Coming in, they knew, meant certain death for one among them, and, keen as they were to lay hands on him, no man had any wish to be that one. The oars creaked away into the darkness, and he climbed to the ridge to make sure they made no attempt on the other side. But discretion had prevailed. One man could not hold L'Etat from invasion at half-a-dozen points at once.
Stooping, I saw half-a-dozen pins gleaming in its brown depths. "A love-charm." The schoolmaster nodded. "Thomasine Slade has been wishing for a husband. I see no sin in that. When she looked up and saw you coming down the lane " I paused. The schoolmaster said nothing. He was leaning over the well, gloomily examining the pins. " your aspect was enough to scare anyone," I wound up lamely.
Altieri saw how much disturbed she was and came towards her, for they were now half-a-dozen steps apart. He meant, no doubt, to offer her some consolation in her new trouble, unless he was going to fall on his knees and implore her pardon for having caused her such uneasiness. As a professional love-maker either course was open to him.
Would they not have a right to apply to the police if the librarian persisted all the same in his poisonous trade? The farewells of mother and daughter-in-law were cold. During the three weeks that they had been together they had not exchanged half-a-dozen words apart from the inquiries and phrases when they met at table and in the evening before going to bed.
He was now ready to improvize, and dashed thumb and finger on the zither, tossing up his face, swarthy-flushed: "There was a steinbock with a beard." Half-a-dozen voices repeated it, as to proclaim the theme. "Alas! a beard indeed, for there is no end to this animal. I know him;" said the duchess dolefully.
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