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The engagement was now general. Mascola's boats were trying to smash their way through. But the V was as yet unbroken. That, he could tell by the solid formation of the boats in reserve. They had not found it necessary to separate. The night was enlivened with the shrill cries of the aliens. Gregory noticed that there was congestion of lights on his left wing.
You never know." There was a tap at the door. "See how we have trained them," said Psmith. "They now knock before entering. There was a time when they would have tried to smash in a panel. Come in." A small boy, carrying a straw hat adorned with the School House ribbon, answered the invitation. "Oh, I say, Jackson," he said, "the headmaster sent me over to tell you he wants to see you."
The boy took the paper with an insolent grin, for he had heard the fast circulating rumor, "that one of the big bugs was about to smash up;" and now, eager to confirm the report, he ran swiftly back to his employer, who muttered, "Just as I expected. I'll draw on him for what I lent him, and that'll tell the story.
May be the 'Anaconda' that is to smash out the rebellion, is making another turn, or 'taking in a reef, as the Colonel says."
There was some fighting, I understand, but they got out finally. Now they've said they're going to smash us." He grinned. Anketam said: "What's so funny?" "Oh, they won't do anything," said Russat. "They fume and fuss a lot, but they won't do anything." "I hope not," said Anketam. He finished the last of his spiked tea, and Memi poured him another one.
They are loose and can be lifted. I planned to smash the lock, but the noise would have brought Prothero. But you could defend yourself with one of them." Ford had already run to the cot and dropped to his knees. He found the mattress supported on strips of iron resting loosely in sockets at the head and foot.
A couple of rare old sports, them two, with no more worries for what might happen to their necks than if they'd been joy-riders speedin' home at 3 A.M. from the Pink Lady Inn. Me, I was holdin' my breath and waitin' for the grand smash. If Auntie's driver had stuck to a straightaway run we'd either caught 'em or smeared ourselves against a beer truck or something.
Poor old Jimmy he always hated Mortlake like the devil. . . . She was in Mortlake's car when the smash occurred, you know . . . No, I don't much think she'll marry him. If she goes on at the rate she's going now, she'll be flying for higher game in a month or two. I know women of that stamp had some myself, as you might say. . . . What really! poor old chap!
Von Kluck does not seem to have known that the French army was in desperate need of those twenty-four hours which he gave them by his hesitation. If he had come straight on for Paris with the same rapidity as his men had marched in earlier stages and with the same resolve to smash through regardless of cost, the city would have been his and France would have reeled under the blow.
"The young are tired of us, our gods and our ideals. Off with their heads, they say smash their idols! And let's get back to-nothing! And, by Jove, they've done it! Jon's a poet. He'll be going in, too, and stamping on what's left of us. Property, beauty, sentiment all smoke. We mustn't own anything nowadays, not even our feelings. They stand in the way of Nothing."
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