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Reggie piped up that she could not think of letting Reggie go till after the Martha Washington Ball she was getting up for the Blind Asylum in Easter week; and her husband placidly observed that by that time he would have to be practising for the International Polo match. But Mr.
Tim laughed, who, although he ought to have been in his bed, had taken his seat in the Dragonfly when her crew were piped over the side in the evening, and thereby subjected himself to a rap over the knuckles from the Captain; but where the offence might be said to consist in a too assiduous discharge of his duty, it was easily forgiven, unfortunate as the issue of the race had been.
"Open the door! do you hear?" shrieked one little treble voice. "All right!" piped another. "I know who you are, you cads. See if I don't tell Dr Senior!" "Oh, please, I say, I shall lose my train!" whimpered a third. "Wait till I get out; see if I don't kick your shins!" howled a fourth. It was no use. In vain these bantams stormed and raved, and entreated and blubbered.
I've often heard her tell about the first day she went to work down at Golderberg's." "That's the worst in town," piped another; "I stayed there just two days. That was enough for me. Whenever the girls disagree down there, they step out into the hall and lick each other. First day I was there, one girl got two ribs broken. Her rival just walked all over her." "What did they do with the girls?"
With a start they brought themselves up, and stared only to see a little white-robed figure, with its astonished eyes uplifted with childlike, earnest gaze, as she waited for her answer. For an instant they were powerless to move; and stood as if frozen to the spot, till Phronsie, moving one step forward, piped forth: "Naughty men, to touch my dear grandpa's things!"
My uncle and Hanks, who both had seen much of gun-shot wounds, did their best to doctor the poor fellows who had been hit; the bodies of the two men who were killed, were placed side by side abaft the mast, and covered up with a union jack; and we then piped to breakfast. I had not recovered my appetite, which the scenes I had witnessed during the morning had taken away.
Meanwhile from the public drawing-room below came sounds of revelry, innocent enough yet hardly calculated to soothe over- strained nerves. Little Mr. Farge whose thin and reedy tenor carried as does a penny whistle gave forth the refrain of a song just then popular in metropolitan music-halls. "They're keeping latish hours at the Convalescent Home," piped Mr.
Perhaps she could help with the work in the kitchen anything but see Martin! Mrs. Landis was excited as she drew her visitor into the warm kitchen, but the excitement was mingled with wrath. "What d'you think, Amanda," she exclaimed, "our Mart " "Yes, our Mart " piped out one of the smaller children, but an older one chided him, "Now you hush, and let Mom tell about it."
"And please don't forget the Crab and grandmother, rashes, et ceterus," said the little girl. "Tera Corona," piped her brother. "I won't," said the Prophet. "I will not." And he tottered out of the room, carrying the Sagittarius letter in his hand. In the hall he paused for a moment, holding on to the balusters and re-reading his directions.
But, as I have said, a true tale in the ears of criminals acts like a chemical reagent. It sets them to work lying, and the lie burns off, disclosing naked truth again. But, mother of me, they were daring liars! The fellow who had come out of the scrap more or less unscathed piped up for the three, the other two nodding and prompting him in whispers. "What that Indian says in the main is true.
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