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"Do ye think I mane to let the fly cops put their darbies on me, that I should be nosin' around in the broad day?" "You're too fly for them, I see," said the bar-keeper, with a sagacious shake of his head. "You an' Barney are a pair." "Barney? Ye mane the Irish lad that was just here a bit ago?" "The same. He's square. He's one of you."
"I'll shake down in time, and be just as useless as ever. But I wish you'd lend me your sewing basket." "Why?" asked Mademoiselle, suspiciously. "Because I am possessed with a mad desire to sew on some buttons." A little later Lily looked up from her rather awkward but industrious labors with a needle, and fixed her keen young eyes on Mademoiselle.
He was thoroughly contrite about it, and he did his best to recover an appearance of friendly good will. He didn't demur to her wish to be put on a car, and at the crossing where they waited for it, after an almost silent walk, he did manage to shake hands and wish her luck and tell her she'd hear from him soon, in a way that he felt reassured her.
"If, instead of leading Polyeucte to punishment, the magistrate, with a smile and shake of the hand, had sent him home again, Polyeucte would not have been caught offending again; perhaps, in his old age, he would even have laughed at his escapade, and would have become a sensible man."
James fastened upon him with the suggestion that according to Swedenborg the most celestial angels were unconscious of their own perfection, and that if the Shakers felt they were of angelic condition they were probably the sport of the hells. I was very glad to get my poor old friend off alive, and to find that he was not even aware of being cut asunder: I did not invite him to shake himself.
'Doctor, said he, 'you shall be my confessor: when I first set out in the world I had friends who endeavoured to shake my belief in the Christian religion. I saw difficulties which staggered me, but I kept my mind open to conviction. The evidences and doctrines of Christianity, studied with attention, made me a most firm and persuaded believer of the Christian religion.
"Ellis is; ain't you, Ellis?" And Jack reached to shake his comrade. "How can you be asleep, Ned, when we're all going to the bottom?" "Let me alone!" growled Ned. "We are going to the bottom," said Jack, the ship just then rolling in the trough of the sea. "I can't help it if we are," replied Ellis, sick and stupefied; "and I don't care much. Let me go to the bottom in peace." "O Lord! O Lord!
He had passed her more than once in the corridors, but she had eluded him each time, brushing by him with a tightening of the lips and a little shake of the head, half pleading, half commanding.
She lifted her head suddenly, desperately, to shake the unreality from her and her eyes fell upon the gentle face, peaceful, smiling, calm, and so still and a startled, frightened cry rang from her lips.
Coming upright and wheeling around, he saw a young officer standing in a boat pulled by about twenty pontoneers. As he shot alongside, the officer stretched forth his hand to shake Paul's and said in French: "You must come on board and go back to Piacenza. The public are greatly disappointed. Your agent said that you would be here yesterday and a great reception was prepared for you."
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