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"Not I; nor of forty Mrs. McFlimseys!" It was not the ghost of color that warmed Mrs. Carleton's face now, but the crimson of a quicker and stronger heart-beat. She actually arose from her chair without reaching for her maid's hand and stood firmly while the shawl was adjusted and the bonnet-strings tied.
I'm from the West, and I've been in more than one flood." "You have!" cried Amy, and the others knew of what she was thinking her own case. "I hope he didn't have the same sort of trouble I had, though," she thought. "Perhaps if you were to walk along your clothes would dry quicker," said Betty. "And if you went on to Judgeville you might be able to get a tailor to press them."
'I suppose that fellow George and the girl Eliza are here, he said, in a sulky voice, after a few minutes' silence. 'Yes, they are, said the old lady. 'They had better get away across the lake, said Tom Loker, 'the quicker the better. 'Very likely they will do so, said the old lady, calmly going on with her knitting.
It was wonderful work, rattling fire, quicker than a self-cocker even. He selected another weapon. From a pile of tomato-cans he took one and tossed it into the air. Before it had fallen he had perforated it twice, and as it rolled along the floor he helped its progression by four more bullets which left streams of tomato-juice where they had hit. The room was full of smoke.
Death was the price of a slip. He knew, however, and accepted the risks deliberately a plucky enough act, when you come to think of it, for a beast no more than a foot long and one and a half pounds heavy. The opening came. Quicker than you could realize, the hedgehog half unrolled, and side-chopped with his glistening teeth.
The canoe shot up behind a point where, looking over the low bank, I had the arena directly under my eye. The animal was a fisher black-cat the trappers call him the most savage and powerful fighter of his size in the whole world, I think. In the instant that I first saw him, quicker than thought he had hurled himself twice at the towering bird's breast.
"Bring him into the shade," she called, as she ran, and Eunice, with Kenneth in her arms, hurried up the beach. Eliza took him as they met, and fairly flew back into the yard. "Oh, Billy!" she called, passing him, "go for the doctor as fast as you can. Kenneth's dreadfully hurt. No, Miss Edna, you go. You can go quicker;" and Edna flew.
This keen sensitiveness made him more quickly alive than other people to all that lay round him and before; it made him quicker to discern danger and disaster; it led him to give up hope and to retire from the contest long before he had a right to do so. The experience of later years shows that he had despaired too soon.
The launching went off most successfully, but the time had flown much quicker than the boys had any idea of. Charlie was in full enjoyment of the honour of guiding the Fairy on her trial trip round the pond, when he was terribly startled at hearing the church clock strike five. In a moment he had dropped the string, caught up his satchel of books, and started off towards home.
But remembering the things we had seen on the reef, the words which Ruth Bellenden had spoken to me, and that which happened to the lad and myself last time we came ashore; remembering this, it's not to be wondered at that our hearts beat a bit quicker, and that our hands went now and again to the pistols we carried.
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