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The mail, which came late in the afternoon, had not been delivered, causing no uneasiness, as letters were not daily visitors. But now the serving-man, with a gentle rap, opened the door and said briefly: "Letters." Eunice rose and took them. "An East Indian one for you, Chilian, and why one from Boston for you, Elizabeth. It is Cousin Giles' hand." Elizabeth reached for it.
Well-nigh destitute of present support, and encompassed with unrelenting duns, he was obliged to keep within doors, and seek some comfort in the conversation of his charming mistress, and his faithful friend; yet, even there, he experienced the extremest rigour of adverse fate. Every rap at the door alarmed him with the expectation of some noisy tradesman demanding payment.
Sidney paused an instant; then, while Peter still hunted for the envelope, he administered another, and this time a distinctly disobedient, rap. Peter heard it from within and was struck with its oddity of sound so much so that, leaving the child for a moment under a demoralising impression of impunity, he waited with quick curiosity for a repetition of the stroke.
He is known by his knock. Your heart telleth you "That is Mr. ." A rap, between familiarity and respect; that demands, and, at the same time, seems to despair of, entertainment. He entereth smiling, and embarrassed. He holdeth out his hand to you to shake, and draweth it back again. He casually looketh in about dinner time when the table is full.
You must not interfere; I shall rap you on the knuckles if you try to stop my horse." "At least let me follow you, then," I said, keeping close to her. "Your father wished it; and I shall at least be there to kill myself if anything happens to you." Why I was filled with these gloomy forebodings I do not know, for I had often seen Edmee galloping through the woods.
You are not named; though, of course, the attack is aimed at you. But you ought to let our adversary commit himself farther; when the right moment comes, we'll rap him over the knuckles." "No!" said Thuillier, "I won't stay quiet one minute under such an insult." "The devil!" said the barrister; "what a sensitive epidermis!
Got just enough to live on, with his pension hasn't saved a rap, of course." "And Willie? Is he still delicate?" "Yes." "I'm sorry." "Easy job, his, you know. And even if his health does give out, his college pals will always find him some sort of sinecure. So jolly popular, old Willie!" "And Alan? I haven't heard anything of him since his Peruvian thing came to grief. He married, didn't he?"
She's a world beater at the other thing. I won't listen to this guff. That ends it. You go on doing this work with Tom Sacks, Christie. I don't give a rap whether the Jenison 'Joy' likes it or not." Christine sprang to her feet, her face convulsed. "I shall ask Colonel Grand to help me. He owns part of the show. His interest and mother's together are greater than yours "
The simultaneous sound of his well-known rap at the door with the stroke of the clock announcing six, was a topic of never-failing mirth in the families which this dear old bachelor gladdened with his presence. Then was his forte, his glorified hour! How would he chirp, and expand, over a muffin! How would he dilate into secret history!
She had caused the brass knocker to be screwed off the inner door of the chambers, whereupon the postman's startling double rap would, as she justly argued, disturb the rest of her patient, and she did not allow him to see any letter which arrived, whether from boot-makers who importuned him, or hatters who had a heavy account to make up against next Saturday, and would be very much obliged if Mr.
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