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Then he stopped short, as the shell burst this time far to the left of the stalled ambulance. "Gosh!" he exclaimed. "You've got me rattled, too. Here! I'll go along to Mother Gervaise with you. Some of the fellows may be there and I can get help. Come on." "Oh, Charlie!" murmured the girl. "I'm afraid for you." "Trying to make me a quitter, are you?" he demanded.
All seemed to be borne down by the seriousness of a strenuous physical life. No songs arose from the fields; scarcely a head was raised from the laborious planting of tufts of paddy roots as our kreta rattled past. While mothers toiled in the fields, children played near the roadways, or now and then assisted their parents.
Literal took a seat at last; and for a moment there was silence in the room and throughout the old house, save that a window rattled somewhere in the night breezes. Then Mr. Literal leaned forward deliberately, his finger tips fitted together and his lips drawn into very prim lines. And at last he spoke. "Listen to me, Mr. Will o'Dreams: I know you!" His tone was triumphant, merciless.
And indeed the poor rogue, having for the moment another's sins to confess, rattled on with his story almost glibly. "As I was saying, sir, the old man cut her out of his will: and not only this, but had a Bible fetched and took his oath upon it that no child of hers should ever touch a penny of his money. Be so good as to bear that in mind, sir, for it's important." "I see," Mr. Rogers nodded.
Every entrance, however, had been strongly secured; he rattled, and thumped, and screamed, as if P himself had actually been within hearing, but still to no purpose; he might as well have expected to extort a reply from the grave.
He had not been sitting there for more than half an hour when a light step sounded in the inner hall and stopped at the door. A key was turned in the lock and a voice said: "Oh, bother this lock." The key rattled again, the door opened rather suddenly, and there entered not a witch as Daimur expected but the loveliest lady he had ever seen.
They seemed to be appallingly laden with stupendous packs and multitudinous equipment. A tin mug and God knows what else beside swung and rattled about their thighs. The women with them were running to keep up, and dragging children, and stretching hands into the ranks, and crying all crying. ...Doo-da! Doo-da! The Camp Town races are five miles long, Doo-da! Doo-da! Day!
In fact quite the contrary, and she dared Susan to use the word about her, or Mr. Battle either. And she rattled on in her violent and excited way and was on the verge of the hystericals now and again. And for my life I couldn't tell if she was pleased as Punch about it, or in a proper tearing rage. I don't think she knew herself how she felt.
When half way through the stretch of woods they crossed a bridge, whose planks rattled so loudly under the wheels and hoofs that the animal showed a disposition to rear and plunge over the narrow railing at the side. But the boy used his whip so vigorously that he quickly tamed the beast, which was not slow to understand that her master was holding the reins.
We must stop 'em with the bullet. Hurry up, man; hurry, if you don't want to be skewered like a stuck pig!" He rattled off burst after burst of fire, clamoring at Bunthrop to hurry, hurry, hurry. A wounded machine-gunner joined them, and then some others, and the gun began to spit a steady string of bullets again.
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