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"Then give me your hand," said the major, as he shook Sparks's with a warmth of whose sincerity there could be no question. "Bess, my love," said he, addressing his wife. The remainder was lost in a whisper; but whatever it was, it evidently redounded to Sparks's credit, for the next moment a repetition of the hand-shaking took place, and Sparks looked the happiest of men.
"Thar," said he, a moment later, as flames were seen bursting through the roof, "no galoot uv a miner don't live in that shanty after that. Git." Away galloped the party, the baby in the arms of its father. The crossing was safely reached, and the stage had room for the whole party, and, after a hearty hand-shaking all around, the stage started.
I continued the narrative. 'The two, then, met, and were reconciled. But it was a reconciliation without cordiality, without affection a shaking of hands across a barrier of brass; and even this hand-shaking was a strictly metaphorical one, for they do not seem ever to have got beyond the interchange of a frigid bow. The opportunities, however, for observation were few.
As for Mr Meldrum, the passenger, who was a delighted observer of the good feeling existing between the captain and second in command of the vessel in which, like Caesar, he had "embarked himself and all his fortunes," and was now journeying across the surface of the deep a good feeling that was fairly indicative of everything going well on the voyage he was so carried away by the spirit of the moment that he felt inclined to ask that the general hand-shaking might be "passed round for the good of the crowd."
In those days it was all hand-shaking, and 'Birotteau, take courage; let yourself be killed, like us, for the good cause. Why, we are all comrades in conspiracy." "Very good, put them down," said Constance. "If Monsieur de la Billardiere comes he will want somebody to speak to." "Cesarine, write," said Birotteau.
There were two men in civilian dress whom many a man of Silver Run knew for soldiers at once, for as such had they known them before Captain Lee and Quartermaster McCrea of the old th Cavalry and there had been a remarkable meeting and hand-shaking between them and Nolan, and a whispered confabulation, at the end of which the two dove into the office building where Shiner still lay, comforted by better news of his boy, by good surgical aid, and by a skilful and competent nurse who, for more than one reason, preferred to keep out of sight for the time being.
Governor Wiseman, our grave friend at tea, broke in upon us at this moment and said: I am not fond of indiscriminate hand-shaking, and so am not especially troubled by the lack of cordiality on the part of church-goers. But I am sometimes very much annoyed on Sabbaths with the habit of some good people in church.
I was very glad indeed when the waddling of hands for it was the perfect imbecility of hand-shaking was over, and he was safely out of the gate. He had kept me standing on the steps for full five minutes, and I did not feel safe from him till I was once more in my study with the door shut.
The air brought tears to many eyes; for many who were in the ranks might never return. After many a hand-shaking, the troops marched to the Castle, previous to their early embarkation for the Low Countries on the following morning. Then came Waterloo and the victory! The Castle guns boomed forth again; and the streets were filled with people anxious to hear the news.
"You've ten minutes to collect your belongings and to get out of the camp!" was his final abrupt remark. Although I pleaded for a little longer time in which to say farewell to my friends he was inexorable. I rushed back to the field to communicate the news to my companions, and the hand-shaking which ensued was extremely fervent.
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