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No sooner had the doctor finished his brief visit to her sister-in-law than the young lady threw a light wrap over her shoulders, and, just as the bugle was sounding first call for retreat, she walked rapidly to the big house at the south-west corner, noiselessly opened the door without the formality of ringing for admission, and in the gathering darkness of the hall-way within, where she had to grope a moment to find the banister-rail, she came face to face with Mrs.
Two words were sounding in his ears "His father! his father! his father!" They buzzed in his temples at every beat of his heart. Yes, that man, that tranquil man who was sitting on the other side of the table was, perhaps, the father of his son, of George, of his little George.
"Let's go upstairs at once, dear, and see our rooms," Biddy said quickly. An instant later, I stood alone on the veranda. But I knew well enough where to find Captain Anthony Fenton when I wanted him, although the death knell of Antoun was sounding. I was not in the least melancholy, and despite the tense emotion of that short scene, I had never felt less sentimental in my life.
She sat still a few moments holding fast to the kitchen table in her excitement; her eyes glittered, and her breath came short and fast. She went hurriedly into the pantry, fearful that her agitation might be noticed. In her honest soul it seemed to her that her plan, so terrible, so daring, so wicked, must be sounding now in everybody's ears.
Captain Dinks was the first to break the silence. "God forgive me!" he cried out to everybody's surprise. "It is all my fault!" "Your fault!" repeated Mr Meldrum; "how why?" "I should have had a man forward, sounding with the lead, but I quite forgot it quite forgot it; and this has happened."
We must not ask them to moderate their power; we must restore to ourselves that power. There may be danger in the attempt but we attempt it amongst the monuments of the Forum: and if we fall we shall perish worthy of our sires! Ye have high descent, and sounding titles, and wide lands, and you talk of your ancestral honours! We, too, we plebeians of Rome, we have ours!
By Jove! it kept me awake till two o'clock in the morning, and then I went to sleep so soundly that I should not have heard the angel sounding his trump at the last Judgment. "In short, my wife woke me at six o'clock and I jumped out of bed, hastily put on my trousers and jersey, washed my face and jumped on board Delila. But it was too late, for when I arrived at my hole it was already occupied!
Too pretty a picture assuredly to be lost to the eye of mankind. Whose footstep was this sounding on the wet gravel half-an-hour later? Too quick and light for the Squire's. Who was this coming in softly out of the rain, all dripping like a water god?
At this season they answer to a call somewhat similar to the "milk oh!" of the London dairyman, but loud enough to be heard a mile or more through the woods. A traveller passing through the backwoods' settlements will often hear this singular call sounding afar off in the stillness of the evening. These hogs pick up most of their subsistence in the forest.
Jack took the hand, and shook it cordially. He said: "You twig me, old pard! All right between gents. Smell of that, and see how you like it!" And he put a twenty-dollar gold piece in the driver's hand. After a moment the driver said he could not make change. "Bother the change! Ride it out. Put it in your pocket." Then to Col. Jim, with a sounding slap on his thigh: "Ain't it style, though?
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