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Poor feed, with the plowing and the harrowing, had thinned the mules. After the first spurt, they paid no heed to the whip, and fairly crawled. Marylyn, tired, gave way to passionate complaining. Dallas folded a blanket in the bottom of the wagon and coaxed her sister to lie down upon it, her face shielded by the seat.
They were on the terrace now, she leaning on the broad marble balustrade, he standing beside her, and all the traffic of London moving with the tide below them. "To return to our party," she said, in a lighter tone, for that spurt of jealousy had betrayed her into seriousness. "It will be very awkward not to invite my sister to go with me."
The silence was broken suddenly by a blaze of fire that seemed to come through the wall, a report that roared like a cannon in the cabin. A spurt of smoke entered at one of the holes, and a bullet burled itself in the opposite wall. A savage had boldly thrust the muzzle of his rifle into a loophole and fired. "Be still, Paul," whispered Henry.
The Turks haven't got much in the way of craft at least not this side of Gallipoli. 'Then I vote for trying to make her, said Roy. 'Right you are, Ken answered, and began baling harder than ever Roy, pulling on his left-hand oar, got the boat round, and made a last spurt in the direction of the sound. It seemed a very forlorn hope.
Outside, through the night, sounded muffled street noises, and the boom and hiss and spurt of fireworks. The two peering faces turned slowly, until their range of vision had swept the entire room. Then they paused, for motionless against the west wall, between the closet door and the corner, stood Pobloff. His arms were folded, and he was laughing a little.
The fear fastened itself upon him, urging him to greater effort, and he called upon the last of his strength in a spurt that carried him to where the thick spruce gave place to thin bush, and the bush to the barren and rocky side of a huge ridge, up which the trail climbed strong and well defined.
Jewels are baubles; 'tis a sin To care for such unfruitful things; One good-sized diamond in a pin, Some, NOT SO LARGE, in rings, A ruby and a pearl, or so, Will do for me; I laugh at show. I would not have the horse I drive So fast that folks must stop and stare An easy gait two, forty-five Suits me; I do not care; Perhaps, for just a SINGLE SPURT, Some seconds less would do no hurt.
"Rally your forces, then, for one more spurt of climbing. Time is precious. Can you really manage this formidable boulder, or would you like a hand up?" She laughingly flung out her free left hand; and the mockery in her clear voice fired the man to make good his opportunity.
Unlike the mass of mankind around him who stared and wondered the active little man took in the situation at a glance, joined in the pursuit, kept well up, thus forming a sort of connecting-link between the fugitive and pursuers, and even took upon himself to shout "Stop thief!" as he ran. Miles endeavoured to throw him off by putting on, as schoolboys have it, "a spurt."
Dickens, in his later years, permitted more and more his story to take the cue from its inception. All the more remarkable, therefore, is the real jerk and spurt of good spirits with which he opens Our Mutual Friend. It begins with a good piece of rowdy satire, wildly exaggerated and extremely true.
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