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Then they kept silent, but more like animals held in leash, I thought, and I could n't help wondering what would happen if the cork should suddenly pop off and let out all that bottled sense of ill usage. When Judge Swigart got up, he did n't mend matters by referring continually to Emmet as his 'distinguished antagonist, in a tone that suggested irony rather than respect.
Along the Terrace there is now, as everybody knows, a series of small dining-rooms; and here every night you might have listened to the pleasant music of woman's laughter, punctuated by the pop of the champagne bottle.
And mother dressed me up in her green beads that Father Murphy, back in Ireland, had given her when she told him she was going to marry Pop. And we had dumplings ugh, I've hated dumplings ever since. And then " "What happened?" "They came for Mom, some man from the hospital. Pop had been terribly hurt. And, well nothing's been lucky since.
The han'kerchief was in the air. Don't seem so it had fell an inch when the pistols went pop! pop! Jack's hollered fust. Clarke's pistol fell. His arm dropped an' swung limp as a rope's end. His hand turned red an' blood began to spurt above it. I see Jack's bullet had jumped into his right wrist an' tore it wide open. The Lieutenant staggered, bleedin' like a stuck whale.
Geoffrey, four years the senior, a member of "Pop," and an athlete of many colours, found himself one day the object of an almost idolatrous worship on the part of a skinny little being, discreditably clever at Latin verses, and given over to the degrading habit of solitary piano practicing on half-holidays.
"I saw two persons on the lumber, but I don't know who they were. They looked more dead than alive." "Oh, I hope Dick isn't dead!" burst out Sam, and the tears stood in his eyes as he spoke. "Wot's dat you dun said?" came from out of the darkness. "Dick's overboard," answered Tom. "No!" A groan of genuine regret came from Aleck Pop. "How it dun happen?"
"I've not seen nor heard of him for most a year, till pop there tumbled across your paragraph in the papers. Then I surmised from the name and the missing finger and the scarred cheek, that I'd dropped right on to Mark. I wouldn't take all this trouble for any one else; no, sir, not me!" "My Lyddy does not care about being a grass-widow, gentlemen."
"I'm rather lazy sometimes," said Oscar, "but I shall turn over a new leaf some of these days, and astonish everybody. To-night, as I have no studying to do, I'll tell you what we'll do. Did you ever pop corn?" "Sometimes." "I've got some corn here, and Ma'am Greyson has a popper. Stay here alone a minute, and I'll run down and get it."
"If you are still at work when we reach that stage we will send you in some of it," she promised, and laughed again at the way his face fell. "I thought perhaps you were going to invite me in to help pop," he suggested boldly. "I understand you are engaged in the serious labour of collecting material for a book on a most serious subject," she replied.
A shot-weighted corpse could not have disappeared more finally and completely. The thing was very awful, and for a while there was silence, which as usual was broken by Jeekie. "That gay dog gone," he said in a reflective voice. "All those old ghosts come to fetch him at proper time. No good run away from ghosts; they travel too quick; one jump, and pop up where you no expect.
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