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Just at that moment the unluckiest that could have been selected he was seized with a strong inclination to sneeze. Alarmed lest the sound should betray him, he made desperate efforts to suppress it but Nature would have its way, and probably did so with greater violence than if no resistance had been made. "Ker-chew!" sneezed Herbert, violently.
Lots o' words it's onnly as if ye peppered me, and I sneeze, and that's all; but a name sticks to yer back like a bit o' pinned paper. Don't call me a name," and she wriggled pathetically. "Yes," said Wilfrid, "I shall call you Pole." "Oh! ye sweetest of young fellas!" Mrs. Chump threw out her arms.
Then I had a moment's stupefaction, for in the tempest of cries and bravos I heard a shrill cry shouted by thousands of mouths, which I did not in the least understand. After each "call" I asked in the wings what the meaning of the word was that struck on my ears like a dreadful sneeze, beginning again time after time. Jarrett appeared and enlightened me. "They are calling for a speech."
I was a revelation." I pretended to sneeze, so as not to burst out laughing; I felt inclined to roll on the ground with amusement. In about a minute I managed to say indignantly: "And you received him, uncle? You, a Freethinker, a Freemason? You did not have him thrown out of doors?" He seemed confused, and stammered: "Listen a moment, it is so astonishing so astonishing and providential!
Then Amyas, hearing a sneeze, made a dash at the arras behind him, and, finding a doorway there, speedily returned, dragging out Mr. John Brimblecombe, the stout, dark-skinned son of the schoolmaster.
No, it is not fair for poor Harlequin, the best friend that I have in the world, to die in my place!" These brave words, said in a piercing voice, made all the other Marionettes cry. Even the officers, who were made of wood also, cried like two babies. Fire Eater at first remained hard and cold as a piece of ice; but then, little by little, he softened and began to sneeze.
The fire got low, but we dared not make it up; and of course we both had awful desires to sneeze and cough you always do at such times and half killed ourselves in our efforts to smother them. I assure you the click the flap of the letter-box made that moment, although I knew what it was and why it was, made my heart beat like a steam-engine.
I think the hippo went under water when he found the sneeze was coming, for just as pa got to the tank the water flew into the air like a torpedo had exploded under a battle-ship, and the hippo had sneezed all right and pa and the audience which had followed him were drenched and deafened by the explosion.
Oh dear!" cried Bella, uttering a sob, and then giving vent to a tremendous sneeze. "Bless the King!" said Martha Gusset quietly. "Sneeze again, dear; it'll do you no end of good." The advice came rather late, for the girl's face was already wrinkling up for another nervous convulsion that seemed stronger than the last.
So we jogged along, and now and then we struck a stretch of dust, and it would tumble up in clouds and get into my nose and make me sneeze and cry; and of course I said things I oughtn't to have said, I don't deny that. I am not better than others.
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