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Down crashed the amorous gentleman, spluttering. A foot, planted fair on his mouth, stifled his cry. Before he could recover, the boy was through the port, on to the lugger, and had slipped into the sea, quiet as a water-rat. Behind him a dreadful scream woke the ship. "Les depeches! Les depeches!" The ship awoke suddenly from her swoon. An appalling clamour boiled up from the still waters.
All was darkness in the hall without, save for a spluttering candle which Bamboir held over his head, as he and his fellow, deadly pale, stood peering forward. Suddenly they gave a cry, for I threw the sheet from my face and shoulders, and to their excited imagination La Jongleuse stood before them, all in flames.
There could be no loitering; quick work was necessary, or a spoiled wheel was the result. Macdonald, alternately spluttering through fire and steam, was in his element. Even Sandy had to be on the keen jump, without a moment to call his plug of tobacco his own.
Defeated and deserted by his scholars, Dominie Curtius had raged about the schoolroom for a while, spluttering angrily in mingled Dutch and Polish, and then, clapping his broad black hat upon his head, marched straight to the fort to lay his grievance before the Heer Governor.
He dearly loved to annoy others. And he gave Turkey Proudfoot a sly glance. "Ouch!" he exclaimed. "I have a twinge of rheumatism." "Where is your pain?" asked Turkey Proudfoot. "In one of my drumsticks," said old Mr. Crow promptly, with a spluttering cough, to keep from laughing. Turkey Proudfoot was furious. "Cranberry sauce and drumsticks!" he exclaimed.
Faith, I don't wonder that in the honest old times such pests as you were cooled in the ducking pond! Good gracious, that must have made a hissing and spluttering in the water, though!" "Blasphemer, pay me and begone!" "Pay you?
Hilary tried to light a cigar, and flung broken matches into spluttering darkness. At last he succeeded; and then, when he had smoked in silence for two minutes, he turned abruptly on Peter and said, "Well?" Peter, dreamily turning towards him, felt the nervous challenge of his tone, and read it in his pale, tired face. Peter pulled himself together and collected his thoughts.
Come to the fire, my dear fellow, continued Jawleyford, clutching his guest by the arm, and drawing him towards where an ample grate of indifferent coals was crackling and spluttering beneath a magnificent old oak mantelpiece of the richest and costliest carved work.
Another of his sources of fearful pleasure was to pass long winter evenings with the old Dutch wives as they sat spinning by the fire, with a row of apples roasting and spluttering along the hearth, and listen to their marvellous tales of ghosts and goblins, and haunted fields, and haunted brooks, and haunted bridges, and haunted houses, and particularly of the headless horseman, or Galloping Hessian of the Hollow, as they sometimes called him.
"We'll just go down to Robin Hill," said James, spluttering out his words very quick; "the horses want exercise, and I should like to see what they've been doing down there." Irene hung back, but again changed her mind, and went out to the carriage, James brooding over her closely, to make quite sure.
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