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Presently he saw that it was a band of robbers. One of the robbers left the rest and rode toward him, and said: "Boy, what have you got?" The boy looked him in the face said: "I have forty golden dinars sewed up in my coat." The robber laughed and wheeled around his horse and went away back. He would not believe the boy. Presently another robber came and he said: "Boy, what have you got?"
Without giving himself time to reconsider his decision, and, indeed, that he might not allow his thoughts to be distracted from his desperate resolution, he bent over the appalling shroud, opened it with the knife which Faria had made, drew the corpse from the sack, and bore it along the tunnel to his own chamber, laid it on his couch, tied around its head the rag he wore at night around his own, covered it with his counterpane, once again kissed the ice-cold brow, and tried vainly to close the resisting eyes, which glared horribly, turned the head towards the wall, so that the jailer might, when he brought the evening meal, believe that he was asleep, as was his frequent custom; entered the tunnel again, drew the bed against the wall, returned to the other cell, took from the hiding-place the needle and thread, flung off his rags, that they might feel only naked flesh beneath the coarse canvas, and getting inside the sack, placed himself in the posture in which the dead body had been laid, and sewed up the mouth of the sack from the inside.
This last was the only paper which bore the indorsement "Rec'd payment," and this circumstance had, probably, led to its preservation. The adjoining division of the wallet was sewed up with stout black thread and Mabel had to resort to her scissors before she could get at its contents.
But at the last moment her hand lost its courage and she weakly sewed the poison up for future use inside the ticking of the feather bolster on the marital bed. This was not at all to the liking of her lover, who thereupon took matters into his own hands, by hiring another Mafiuso to remove the photographer with a knife-thrust through the heart.
That's nice. I met him once when he came to see Marjorie at boarding school. I was such an infant then, though. But now " She dives into her vanity bag and proceeds to retouch the scenic effects on her face. "Don't waste it," says I. "He's sewed up a Miss Hampton. She's there, too." "Pooh!" pouts Miss Buell. "Who cares? She doesn't keep him in a cage, does she?"
Upon a fair Tuesday I presented a petition to the court, making myself a party against the said gentlewomen, and showing the great interest that I pretended therein, protesting that by the same reason I would cause the codpiece of my breeches to be sewed behind, if the court would not take order for it.
I cut an exact pattern from my old shoes, laid it on the sleeves, and cut out thus good uppers and sewed them carefully; then soaked the soles and sewed the cloth to them. I am so proud of these home-made shoes, think I'll put them in a glass case when the war is over, as an heirloom.
The Sheets are ropes used for extending the clues, or lowering the corners of the sails. Brails are ropes used to truss up a sail to a mast or yard. Reef-Bands are long pieces of rough canvass sewed across the sails to give them additional strength. Scudding is a term applied to a vessel when carried furiously along by a tempest.
I had been killed in action; and the first-lieutenant of the ship, with mingled feelings of sorrow and delight sorrow at my death, which was a tribute that I did not expect from him, and delight at his assumed promotion, for the combat had been brought to a successful issue read the funeral service which consigned me and some twenty others, sewed up in hammocks, to the deep, into which we descended with one simultaneous rush.
In fact, he seems to have bucked up a lot. "Well, how about that foreign contract?" I asks reckless one mornin' as we meets on the train. "Oh, I have that all sewed up," says Stanley. "One of those young chaps who came to see Polly so much gave me a straight tip on who to see someone who had visited at his home. Odd way to get it, eh? But I got a lot out of those boys. Rather miss them, you know."
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