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There was a low, muttering sound, then another, seemingly nearer; then came a dazzling blue flash of lightning that made all the party stationed at the dining-room window start back; and then came a long, rolling, rattling peal of thunder, that sounded as though it had come bellowing through great metal pipes; while before it had died away in the distance, splashing and plunging down came the rain in torrents, ploughing up the flower-beds, and making little rivers run along each side of the gravel-walks.
And the pillow-slips and everything finished?" The maid was answering "Yes" to each of these questions when a hansom cab came rattling up to the front of the house, and the old lady leaped out of her seat. "It's himself!" she cried, and she ran like a girl to the hall. The door had been opened before she got there, and a deep voice was saying, "Is Mrs. Callender " "It's John! My gracious!
Little did those speeding riders know of the voice they had called up to terrify this unknown child. The rattling, warning voice ceased as suddenly as it had begun as the unseen car rolled noiselessly along the smooth highway. "Don't you be scared of it," Pee-wee said. "You're as bad as Licorice Stick. Those old boards don't know what they're talking about.
The light quick stepping of horses and their rattling harness brought Madame de Ferrier's carriage quickly around the curve fronting the chapel. Her presence was the one touch which the place lacked, and I forgot grief, shame, impatience at being found out in my trouble, and stood at her step with my hat in my hand.
Poor Mumford! he dismally went about under the protection of young Alfred, a fourth-form boy not one soul did he know in that rattling London ballroom; his young face as white as the large white tie, donned two hours since at the Tavistock with such nervousness and beating of heart!
His battalion had marched in quietly at midnight, and the line they came to relieve had set out as silently for the rear. It all took place in utter darkness. Just as B Company slid down an incline into the shallow rear trenches, the country was lit for a moment by two star shells, there was a rattling of machine guns, German Maxims, a sporadic crackle that was not followed up.
From the prow you will make out first a uniform velvet green; then the differentiation of many shades; then the dull neutrals of rocks and crags; finally the narrow white of a pebble beach against which the waves utter continually a rattling undertone. The steamer pushes boldly in. The cool green of the water underneath changes to gray.
A touch of colour that I had never seen there before grew slowly in his cheeks. It was the danger signal; but I did not know; indeed I did not know! "Come," I said, shaking him lightly, playfully; "promise me that you will not do it for a year." "Delilah!" he whispered from behind set lips, his breath coming quicker, a hoarse rattling in his throat.
"Plague on that old man!" somebody thought in the room: and so, perhaps, some one else besides her. Our friend Pen said "How d'ye do, Mr. Costigan's chambers a visit, there was a gloomy and rather guilty silence in the company, which Pen presently tried to dispel by making a great rattling and noise. The silence of course departed at Mr.
Thus she mounted to endurance and surcease. By day, rattling about in many activities, she was able to ridicule her blazing nights of darkness.
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