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`Bang, smash, boom! went our guns, the fire bursting forth from the ship's side in the centre of puff-balls of smoke, accompanied by the hurtling sound of the shot through the air, and the dull intonation the shell gave out after the first report, when these missiles discharged their contents around their target. `Bang, smash, boom!
I proclaim it from the house-tops: 'I'm a lucky man! I even made so bold as to take the god of luck, Mercury, as my patron! He too protects me. See, I've got Mercuries all over my shop! Look up there, on that shelf, a whole row of statuettes, like the one over the front-door, proofs signed by a great sculptor who went smash and sold them to me.... Would you like one, my dear sir?
"Who is he?" "Oh, that's the man that took our boat up the river," replied Jack. "What do you think he was trying to do?" went on Dick. "Trying to steal it, of course," replied Jack. "I mean now." "Oh, smash us up so we couldn't row to-morrow," guessed Jack. "But what for?" persisted Dick. "Oh, just pure ugliness, I guess," replied Jack.
Each shall carry a ball of yarn dipped in turpentine, mixed with sulphur and other inflammable things. They shall also carry another ball, having but a thin coating of the yarn, and powder inside so as to explode. When the clock strikes two, we will say, each of them will smash the window of some store, light both balls, and put them in.
That however made no difference she'd throw everything over. Every duty at home, domestic, maternal, social, awaited her; but it was a case for a high line. Her affairs would go to smash, but hadn't one a right to one's snatch of scandal when one was prepared to pay?
I'll be back as soon as I can or send Ruth or we'll both come. And don't worry. I'm not going to do anything rash or wrong or anything that will hurt you or Ruth. I am sorry about the other night. I didn't mean to smash up like that." The doctor handed the letter over to his wife. "Why didn't he wait until he had her address?
He knew that nobody, anywhere, would help him do something he had to do. So he fled in order to try somehow to send the signal Soames had prevented from beside the wrecked spaceship. But why must Fran send it? Why hadn't an automatic device been used? Something which could be so ruggedly built that it could not possibly smash.... And suddenly there was an explanation.
Just as the patient finished drinking it, which he did eagerly, the doctor arrived, and after a swift examination administered some anaesthetic, and got to work to set the broken limb. "It's a bad smash very bad," he explained to Morris; "something must have fallen on him, I think. If it had been an inch or two higher, he'd have lost his leg, or his life, or both, as perhaps he will now.
"Ecoutez, mes enfants! Ecoutez, Henriette!" They listened with ears, with eyes, with every faculty strained to its utmost. And nothing happened! positively nothing beyond a few wheezing or creaking sounds. The haggard inventor in despair chased everybody out of the room, and sat looking at the thing, wondering whether to smash it, or kill himself. Then an idea struck him.
But he was determined to remain superior to any of her subterfuges. His old habit returned to him, the old habit of "pounding" a prisoner. He knew that one way to get at the meat of a nut was to smash the nut. And in all his universe there seemed only one issue and one end, and that was to find his trail and get his man. So he cut her short with his quick volley of abuse.
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