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Arline was compelled to gulp twice before she could say even that much. "I don't shine nowhere inside er out. I know that well enough. I never had no chancet to shine. It's always been wore off with hard knocks. But I like shiny folks all right when they're fine clear through, and " "Arline dear, I do love you. I always shall. Arline loosened her clasp and jumped up precipitately.
"I hope they are not going to make another twenty years' war of it," Lindsay said. "If you go on in the way that you are doing, Drummond, you will be a field marshal in a third of that time; but you must remember about the proverb of the pitcher and the well." "Yes, Lindsay, but you must remember that I am having a share of hard knocks.
Accustomed to plenty of hard knocks at home, they took to the rough fare and Indian wars of our border as naturally as ducks take to water. They brought with them, too, an undying hatred of excise laws, and a spirit of unhesitating resistance to any authority that sought to enforce such laws.
Knocking was going on, and by a system of knocks, the spirit said it wanted its body to be taken out of holy ground, said it was Madame St Mesmin, and was damned for Lutheranism and extravagance! The experiment was repeated before churchmen and laymen, but the lay observers rushed up to the place whence the knocks came where they found nothing.
I never could quite understand it, nor could any officers ever tell me the fo'castle for the men and the quarter-deck for the officers, and what's English to one is Greek to the other. Well, this was all I could see in the game. They sat about, sometimes talking, sometimes not. Nobody got angry at the knocks, and Heaven only knows what it was all about.
Now, a shiny black beaver is not an object exactly calculated to inspire tender or romantic sentiments, one would fancy, but that particular "stove pipe" seemed to touch Polly to the heart, for she caught it up, as if its fall suggested a greater one, smoothed out a slight dint, as if it was symbolical of the hard knocks its owner's head was now in danger of receiving, and stood looking at it with as much pity and respect, as if it had been the crown of a disinherited prince.
But I'm not one of the 'meek who shall inherit the earth. I'm a robustious combustious sort of chap if a fellow knocks me down, I jump up and give it him back with as jolly good interest as I can and if anyone plays me a dirty trick I'll move all the mental and elemental forces of the universe to expose him. That's my way unfortunately " "Why 'unfortunately'?" asked Helmsley.
The two voyagers were sadder by sympathy than the two whom they were leaving to the clock's round of desert sameness. About ten at night Chillon and Mr. Wythan escorted Carinthia, for the night's watch beside her uncle, down to Lekkatts. It was midway that the knocks on air, as of a muffled mallet at a door and at farther doors of caverns, smote their ears and shook the ground.
With a humble person, who is careful not to flourish beneath his signature, who knocks just as much as he means on the knocker, bows just as much as he respects, smiles cautiously, and never fails to touch his hat to the King of Terrors may he not deal more gently with such a one? And yet Death is not a pleasant companion at Life's feast, however kindly disposed.
Cause why? he loves her human natur'. That soldier chap comes in and sees Tom, clutches hold, and tries to take possession of him. Tom fights, knocks out sergeant's starboard eye, and tries to escape human natur'. Soldiers come in, pick up sergeant, seize Tom, and carry him off.
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