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As the procession of fierce warriors, decked in the fullest glory of savage habiliment, moved slowly down the street, frightened faces gazed furtively at them from behind half-closed blinds, while the regular tap of the unseen drum seemed to assume an angrier tone, as though impatient to break forth in the furious rattle of a "charge."
At that moment he heard a tap at the door, and opening it, Lawrence was standing on the threshold. He entered, taking off his cap and loosening his heavy uniform greatcoat. Once he had been a handsome fellow, but he had danced too long to the devil's fiddling, and that always spoils a man's looks.
I am use to zat, I am use to have persons smile reeseeblement, to tap zere fronts, an' spek of ze strait-jackets. Never fear, I am toujours harmless! Mais, Monsieur, it is true, vat I tell you: I am ze original inventeur of ze Atlantic Telegraph!
"Now you'll never be so foolish as to pin your faith to fat women again. There! he shall be made happy another time." She gave his nose a comical tap, and tripped away with her possessor. Ripton rather forgot his friend for some minutes: Random thoughts laid hold of him. Cabs and carriages rattled past.
The tap of a stick made her look up, and standing before her she saw a little old woman, whose face was strange to her. 'You would like to sit down and rest, granny? asked Téphany, pushing aside her bundle. 'When the sky is all the roof you have, you rest where you will, replied the old woman in trembling tones. 'Are you so lonely, then? inquired Téphany, full of pity.
I hope this northeaster won't blow him off his perch. Then I sat down by my fire, took my knitting, and began to meditate. I'm sure I didn't fall asleep; but I can't prove it, so we'll say no more about it. All at once there came a tap at my door, as I thought; and I said 'Come in, just as Mr. Poe did when that unpleasant raven paid him a call. No one came, so I went to see who it was.
There was a gentle tap at the door, and Dulcie came in, bearing a tray with his breakfast, and looking like a little Royalist bearing food to a fugitive Cavalier; though Paul did not quite carry out his share of the simile. "There!" she said, almost cheerfully; "I got Mummy to let me take up your breakfast; and there's an egg for you, and muffins." Mr. Bultitude sat on a chair and groaned.
"Favourite's goin' strong. Gallops like a engine, don't she? I like to see her." Those who were watching through their glasses marked that a fence before the Canal Turn the star-spangled jacket and the purple and gold seemed to be taking council together. "Goin' to turn on the tap now, you'll see," said the old man. He was right.
Mary nodded and smiled and seemed to understand. "We will tap at the window," said Anthony, "it is the quickest way." They came up towards the study window that looked on to the drive; when Anthony, who was in front, suddenly recoiled and then laughed. "They are at it again," he said. The next moment Mary was looking through the window too.
She furled her fan of black and gold, and used it to tap her sister's nose; with the air of a proud beauty and a great spirit, who toyed with and playfully instructed a homely companion. 'I shall make him fetch and carry, my dear, and I shall make him subject to me. And if I don't make his mother subject to me, too, it shall not be my fault.
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