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The hunted man saw all this over his shoulder; he was now swimming vigorously with the current. His brain was as energetic as his arms and legs; he thought with the rapidity of lightning: "The officer," he reasoned, "will not make that martinet's error a second time. It is as easy to dodge a volley as a single shot. He has probably already given the command to fire at will.
But to his amazement, he has ever since been made the object of the most signal favor, kindliness and respect: the respect that is frequently entertained by a man after he has grown up toward the head master who caned him when he was at school. Indeed, William seems never to be able to forget that he was for several years under the old martinet's direct command.
Pere Montrouzier lent, and finally gave, Martinet's 'Solution de Grands Problemes, which Patteson calls 'a very interesting book, with a great deal of dry humour about it, not unlike Newman's more recent publications.
Ah! a new wayside across in front of Widow Priedieu's and the gay mast before the Captain Martinet's the blacksmith's dusty shop the inn-keepers' poles holding out their oval hotel-signs the merry little cocked house where they had that famous jollification immortalized in the song: "Au grand bal chez Boulé."
Train 201 had no dead time at Crosswater; hence, if the ten-minute interval between trains of the same class moving in the same direction was to be preserved, the passenger would have to be held. The assumption that the passenger-train would be held aroused all the railroad martinet's fury in the new superintendent.
Martinet's family government by any means perfect, though she has certainly very much improved it, and gets on with far more comfort to herself and all around her than she did. For the improvement at which I have hinted, I take some credit to myself, though I am by no means certain, that, were I situated as my friend is, I should govern my family as well as she governs hers.
Society raved of her for three seasons, until the fools went even madder about that little Hawting woman a stiff starched martinet's frisky half who bolted with the man my glorious Biddy had given her beautiful hand to. And the result!
Martinet's eldest boy a wild young scape-grace of a fellow and whooping out some complaint against his sister. His mother, startled and annoyed by the rude interruption, ordered him to leave the room instantly. But Harry stood his ground without moving an eyelash. "Do you hear?" And Mrs. Martinet stamped with her foot, to give stronger emphasis to her words.
The two sentinels fired again, independently and ineffectually. The hunted man saw all this over his shoulder; he was now swimming vigorously with the current. His brain was as energetic as his arms and legs; he thought with the rapidity of lightning. "The officer," he reasoned, "will not make that martinet's error a second time. It is as easy to dodge a volley as a single shot.
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