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Having given vent to this reckless statement, and wriggled into his jacket the collar of which he left half down and half up Junkie suddenly plumped down on his knees, laid his head on his bed, and remained perfectly still for the space of about one quarter of a minute.
And you would be astonished if I were to tell you all the grave and learned heads who have confessed to me that, when on walking tours, they sang and sang very ill and had a pair of red ears when, as described above, the inauspicious peasant plumped into their arms from round a corner.
He plumped down his ball, dug his toes in the ground, and sent off another long, satisfactory drive, which added more fuel to his anger. "Any one else would have had a three on the six," he muttered as he left the tee. "It's too ridiculous."
To move down so cunningly that never a leaf stirred; to wade knee-deep in the roaring shallows that drown all noise from behind; to drink, looking backward over one shoulder, every muscle ready for the first desperate bound of keen terror; to roll on the sandy margin, and return, wet-muzzled and well plumped out, to the admiring herd, was a thing that all tall-antlered young bucks took a delight in, precisely because they knew that at any moment Bagheera or Shere Khan might leap upon them and bear them down.
"You're all right, mama?" "Yes," said Mrs. Samstag, and plumped rather than sat herself down on a divan, its naked greenness relieved by a thrown scarf of black velvet, stenciled in gold.
Yeager crawled forward a few yards on his knees into the underbrush. Soft arms slid around his neck and shoulder as someone plumped down beside him. "You're wounded. You've been shot," Ruth breathed tremulously. "Yes," assented Yeager. "Hand me your rifle, Frank." They exchanged weapons. Steve had already made up his mind exactly what was best to do.
The skin bag, containing the ammunition, caught his eye; so, getting the fire-shovel, he managed to dislodge it from the peg on which it hung, and down it plumped upon the floor. Bub looked towards Charlie at this, to see what he would say, but, as he did not seem to notice, lugged the bag to the hearth, and commenced strewing the powder upon the fire.
And that very night, sure enough when Jonathan comed over from Dunnabridge for his bit of love-making, and the young couple had got the farm parlor to themselves, she plumped it out, finding him in a very kindly mood.
"I should like to slip away this morning, Lady Splay," he said. "My servant is packing now." Millie Splay looked at him in dismay. "Oh, I am so sorry," she said. "I was hoping that this morning you and Joan would have something to say to me." "I did too," replied Harry with a wry smile. "But Joan turned me down with a bang last night." Lady Splay plumped herself down on a chair in the hall.
But the little Prince himself was delighted. He plumped down on the hot sand beside the dog and hugged it, calling it "Dear Tumbu," and when the white cat jealously rubbed her back against his little fat person he hugged her too and called her "Darling Down." "Hark to the Lord-of-the-Universe giving his creatures names!" said Foster-mother piously.
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