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For a while she stood looking down on me, and I, meeting that look, glanced otherwhere yet, conscious of her regard, stirred uneasily so that my irons rattled dismally. "Sir," says she at last, but there I stayed her. "Madam, once and for all, I am no 'sir!"
I stood, somewhat in the way of the light man, where my eye could command most of the stage, and a brief section of the auditorium, from parquet to roof. The star of the evening, having rattled off, with much sang-froid and a London intonation, a few lines of thinly humourous dialogue, came toward the footlights to sing.
Now if you'll take my advice you'll let me drive you to Moll King's and you'll finish the night like a man of mettle and a gentleman." Dorrimore was in a morose and sullen mood. He wanted bracing up and he adopted Rofflash's suggestion. The coach rattled to Mrs.
I sank back in my seat with an injured air. The coach swayed slightly, as it rattled over the points. The train was gathering speed. In the far corner of the compartment the brooch of a gay green hat winked at me over the top of The Daily Glass. "That's a nice thing," said I. "What?" said the girl, laying down her paper. "Oh, nothing.
As the stage rattled away again with more or less humorous and open disparagement of the town and the Posada from its "outsiders," he lounged with lazy but systematic deliberation towards Mateo Morez, the proprietor. "I guess that some of your folks here couldn't direct me to Dick Demorest's house, could ye?" The Senor Mateo Morez was at once perplexed and pained.
But with that 'Hey' the walls of the house seemed to shake, the windows rattled, and the porter whom I had seen in front of the house came running up the steps, and looked into the apartment through the glass of the door. There was silence for about a minute the same kind of silence which succeeds a clap of thunder.
Well, I hope you will not long have as much to say. Meanwhile, here we are this is the 'Bear." We rattled into the ample porte cochere of a vast hotel the postillion cracking his enormous whip, and bells ringing on every side, as if the crown prince of Russia had been the arrival, and not a poor sub. in the th.
The clock ticked on loudly, fiercely, like a summoning drum; the rain beat an impatient tattoo on the window-panes, the wind rattled the doors and casements. "Go forth, go forth," they called, "go forth where your lover waits you, to bear you of into the new and the unknown."
"Well, sir, to be short, I was kept in that place all day long, and when night come I was druv into a shay at the point of the pistil, and rattled along as fast as the horses could gallop over a road as I knew nothing of. We changed horses wunst or twict, and just about the dawn of day we come to a broad river with a vessel laying to, not far from the shore.
"Do you know it is snowing?" he said presently, peering out of the window as the cab rattled across the Pont Neuf. "Tant mieux!" cried the girl; "I shall make a snowball a " she opened her blue eyes impressively, "a very, very large one, and " "And?" "Drop it on the head of Mr Rowden," she announced, with cheerful decision.
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