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Just then the Nomes laughed again, and the sound was so weird and disheartening that the twenty-six officers commanded the private to "right-about-face!" and they all started to run as fast as they could. The Tin Woodman at once pursued his army and cried "halt!" and when they had stopped their flight he asked: "Where are you going?"
Here the two, with a right-about-face movement, abruptly marched away, and little Jamie demanded with childish frankness, "Did you bring me anything nice?" "Yes, lots of candy," answered Rose, whereupon Jamie ascended into her lap with a sounding kiss and the announcement that he liked her very much.
The editor of the Globe made a right-about-face repudiating us. Jack Travers, in the style of his beloved Brisbane, put an editorial in the school paper, the Laurelian, addressed to Blair, beginning, "Get back into the collar of your masters, you contemptible cur." The usual thing took place.
Monsieur the Marquis is going to stand for the legislative elections but we've walked into the other quarter," said Crillon, stopping dead. "Come back, come back." We turned right-about-face. "This patriotic society of Monsieur Joseph," Crillon went on, "has done a lot of harm to the anarchists. We've all got to let 'em feel our elbows, that's necessential. You've got a foot in the factory, eh?
We'll right-about-face and march back in the morning, for we feel that we'd rather face all the British in Boston than any more Connecticut women." "Then, sirs, you shall have supper and shelter and welcome," was the prompt reply. Zeke assumed an air of importance as he said: "There are reasons why I must be at home for a time, but I not only expect to return, but also to take many back with me."
"Vat shall I do?" he asked. Not even an echo answered, and the animal kingdom was indifferent. "Lat me see. I have been vandering avay all dis time. Now, I have not'ing to do but right-about-face and vander back." Could reasoning be clearer or more conclusive?
"I'll read the rest of it for you," said Norbert, his heavy face lighting up with cruelty. "Let's see where were you? Oh yes 'point with pride'? 'Our citizens may point with pride to ..." Let us not linger to observe the unmanly behavior of an aged man and his grandson left alone at the breakfast-table by a defenceless woman. The Tocsin's right-about-face undermined others besides Mrs. Mr.
"Vat shall I do?" he asked. Not even an echo answered, and the animal kingdom was indifferent. "Lat me see. I have been vandering avay all dis time. Now, I have not'ing to do but right-about-face and vander back." Could reasoning be clearer or more conclusive?
In a place so exclusively Mexican as Monterey, you saw not only Mexican saddles but true Vaquero riding men always at the hand-gallop up hill and down dale, and round the sharpest corner, urging their horses with cries and gesticulations and cruel rotatory spurs, checking them dead with a touch, or wheeling them right-about-face in a square yard.
Both gentlemen were grave, believing their knowledge in the subterranean world of a wealthy city to give them a positive cognizance of female humanity; and the substance of Colonel Launay's communication had its impressiveness for them. 'Well, it's a turn right-about-face for me, said Sir Lukin. 'What a world we live in!
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