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A distant sound jarred upon the air. Steps shuffled somewhere beyond the massive walls. I even thought that I heard voices, as of the watchman and others in possible consultation. No one approached the broker's door. I urged the signal again and again. I became quite frantic, for I had now begun to think with dismay of the effect of all this upon my wife.
"Go back to bed ... where you belong!" Storch was commanding, coolly, with a shade of menace in his voice. He shuffled back to his couch. He was no longer afraid of Storch, but a certain craftiness suddenly possessed him. Presently he heard a key turn and he felt himself to be completely in the hands of his jailer.
"I wouldn't want Bert to do what his father told him not to, just to oblige me. I'll see the boat some other time, Bert; that will do just as well." "Huh! He's a fraid-cat!" muttered Danny again, as he shuffled off, muttering to himself. Several times he had made trouble for the Bobbsey twins, and Bert was not any too friendly with him. Danny was a bully in the school.
As Brass spoke, he moved the hat twice or thrice, and shuffled among the papers again, as if in search of something. 'How can I see any objection to such a kind offer, sir? replied Kit with his whole heart. 'I don't know how to thank you sir, I don't indeed.
Otherwise it is likely that he will, very shortly after he has made his plunge, fatigue the contemplative brains above, and be shuffled off them, even as great ocean smoothes away the dear vanished man's immediate circle of foam, and rapidly confounds the rippling memory of him with its other agitations.
He shuffled athwart, keeping one eye ahead vigilantly. 'Don't be too sure, he continued. 'The other day I took up a man who hanged himself on the road. He was a Swede, too. 'Hanged himself! Why, in God's name? I cried. He kept on looking out watchfully. 'Who knows? The sun too much for him, or the country perhaps. "At last we opened a reach.
A second but briefer delay, and they stood in the gloom of the marble foyer hall. Then they shuffled across the floor to the great curving stairway. Both of Hammon's friends knew the house well, and, guided only by their sense of touch, they labored upward with their burden. The place was still, tomb-like; only the faint, measured ticking of a clock came to them.
A little later when the upturned gables and twisted dolphins on the roof had begun to take definite shape in the gray light of the new day, the gong boomed out again, doors creaked, and from their cell-like rooms shuffled the priests to yawn and stretch themselves before the early service.
Or has some old speech of Mr O'Connell's on the repeal of the union got shuffled amongst his papers? One expects the sentence to close with the reiterated quotation, "Who would be free, themselves must strike the blow!"
"I have no right or power to punish you," replied the judge; "it rests wholly with your employers whether they will prosecute you or not. "Well, sir, what have you to say to this testimony?" he asked, as the fellow shuffled forward, pale and irresolute. "Remember, you are still under oath." The wily villain, caught in his own trap, hesitated.
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