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Not a scintilla of these was lost on Porthos; and at every one he uttered an exclamation which betrayed to his friend that he had not lost sight of the idea which possessed his brain. At dessert D'Artagnan reposed in his chair, crossed one leg over the other and lounged about like a man perfectly at his ease.
In a short time I was conscious of a change of temperature in that locality, and hastily brought to view the pocket and pipe. Doubtless some of the fire remained in the bowl, which got out and set fire to that part of my clothing. I had no trouble in extinguishing this ignition, but the pocket was gone and my leg had a raw spot.
When the bandage was removed, Captain Dowden examined the limb, but no injury was visible on the upper surface. I grasped the foot it was blue and cold. I raised it, so that the surgeon could look at the under-surface of the leg. As I did so, the calf gave way in the middle. He told me angrily to pull harder. I pulled until the leg was taut again.
"Maria, I shall never do it," said the doctor, measuring with his eye the distance between the ground and the stirrup. "Indeed, John, I don't think you will." "There was a time when I'd have vaulted it. I'm abominably late as it is, Maria." "Shall I give master a leg up?" suggested one of the maids. "No, Susan, you will do nothing of the kind." Mrs.
The Seraph kicked the table leg, unreproved. I drifted after Mary Ellen to the kitchen. "Isn't he fine?" I bragged. "Divil a finer," agreed she. "And 'tis yersilf, Masther John," she added, "is the very spit av him. Shure it's you should be the proud bye." "And, Mary Ellen, you are to come and live with us, you know, and have all the 'followers' you want."
Supposing that there might yet be time to regain possession of the ship, he frantically endeavoured to break open the door. The only weapon he could discover was the leg of a stool, which having wrenched off, he managed with it to prise open the door. The light from the state cabin fell on him as he appeared at the opening; just at that moment Gerald sprang down from the deck.
She took Pivi into a shed where she kept her fruit laid him on a bed of mats, and made him as comfortable as she could, and attended to his broken leg without cutting off the flesh round the bone, as these people usually do. 'You will be still, won't you, Pivi? she said. 'If you hear a little noise you will pretend to be dead.
Hilaire has strongly insisted on the high importance of relative position or connexion in homologous parts; they may differ to almost any extent in form and size, and yet remain connected together in the same invariable order. We never find, for instance, the bones of the arm and forearm, or of the thigh and leg, transposed.
There, after protestations of friendliness and helpfulness that were almost ardent, he mounted a little clumsily and rode off at an amiable pace, looking his best, making a leg with his riding gaiters, smiling and saluting, while Ann Veronica turned northward and so came to Micklechesil.
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