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My companion but shook his head disconsolately and walked to one of the windows upon the far side of the apartment. Scarcely had he gazed beyond them than he called to me in a tone of suppressed excitement and surprise. In an instant I was by his side. "Look!" said Thuvan Dihn, pointing toward the courtyard below.
We must have keenness. I want you boys above all to be keen. I...? What is that noise?" From the other side of the door proceeded a sound like water gurgling from a bottle, mingled with cries half suppressed, as if somebody were being prevented from uttering them by a hand laid over his mouth. The sufferer appeared to have a high voice. There was a tap at the door and Mike walked in.
He saw that some schemes of innovation for which he had once been zealous, whether good or bad in themselves, were opposed to the general feeling of the country, and that, if he persevered in those schemes, he had nothing before him but constant troubles, which must be suppressed by the constant use of the sword.
And even yet the danger from the Volunteers was not wholly extinguished. Though their Convention had been suppressed, its leaders had only changed their tactics.
Here they jammed him up against the railings, and stood guard over him, while he was alarmed to perceive a suppressed ferocity in the faces of both. "What are you charged with? Grr ! For 'arf a pint I'd knock your bloomin 'ed in!" said the coarser gentleman of the two an evasive form of answer which did not seem to promise a pleasant interview.
Her maid Fanchon a little French waif picked up in the slums of Soho helped to readjust a stray curl which had rebelled against the comb. "Now for the necklace, Mademoiselle," said Fanchon with suppressed excitement. It had just arrived by messenger: a large morocco case, which now lay open on the dressing table, displaying its dazzling contents.
They began by trying to prevent the courts from sitting, and went on to burn barns, plunder houses, and attack the arsenal at Springfield. The state troops were called out, under General Lincoln, two or three skirmishes were fought, in which a few lives were lost, and at length in February, 1787, the insurrection was suppressed.
One voice, deepest and most bitter in its half suppressed execration, came familiarly on the ear of Henry Grantham, who brought up the rear of the detachment. He turned quickly in search of the speaker, but, although he felt persuaded it was Desborough who had spoken, coupling his own name even with his curses, the ruffian was no where to be seen.
A dead silence, scarcely broken by a titter from the back desks. "Jam," I chokingly articulated, and there stuck. "Well, sir, and what does jam mean?" inquired the voice, in a tone of suppressed wrath. "Jam" again I stuck. Another dead silence.
He did not say that the Earl and Schmidt had actually seen de Courtois, and suppressed any mention of his disclosure with reference to Curtis's whereabouts, not that he wished to mislead the detective willfully, but he felt that he had been indiscreet, and there was no need to proclaim the fact.
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