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"Ass that I was to speak of it to her at all," muttered Mr Crossley, walking up and down the room with spectacles on forehead, and with both hands in his trousers-pockets creating disturbance among the keys and coppers. "I might have known that she could not hold her tongue. It would never do to let Mrs Brooke remain on the tenter-hooks till Stride comes home to clear the matter up.
She didn't much like it, but here she is; and she's on tenter-hooks to get home, so she can return with you, can't she?" "You must come too, Kathleen. You annoyed me very much indeed. You gave me a terrible fright. I did not know what might have happened to you, knowing how ignorant you are of London and its ways." "But I have got a head on my shoulders," laughed Kathleen.
She approached the table and rested one hand on it, a hawk-like brightness in her eyes. "What you got in that bag?" asked she. Solon was enjoying his certainty that he held the key to the situation. "I got a mite o' cheese," he answered, approaching the fire and spreading his hands to the blaze. "You got anything else? Now, Solon, don't you keep me here on tenter-hooks! You got a letter?"
"But we'll be better to be moving inside, I'm thinking," he continued. Payton assented. He was still brooding on his enemy, the Colonel, and his probable arrival on the morrow. Curse the man, he was thinking. Why couldn't he keep out of his way? "Take the Major in, McMurrough," Asgill said, who on his side was on tenter-hooks lest Flavia and Morty O'Beirne should arrive from the Tower.
"Every one was on tenter-hooks, and eagerly waiting for the palpitating moment when witness would describe and identify the man who last had seen and spoken to the unfortunate woman, within five minutes probably of her strange and unaccountable death. "Personally I knew what was coming before the Scotch stockbroker spoke.
As I un-understand her estate came through females to her, and from a common ancestor of hers and yours, there is not the slightest reason why you should not be gratified by the bequest. But Lucy I hope she was not altogether forgotten?" Rupert fidgeted, and I could see that he was on tenter-hooks.
Such grand little manners! Evidently a character." "Oh, quite! Peggy is nothing if not original. She is a dear, good girl, but quite too funny in her ways. She is really the incarnation of mischief, and keeps me on tenter-hooks from morning until night, but from her manner you would think she was a model of propriety.
And when the latter lady kept him on tenter-hooks, tormenting him, tempting him, but never yielding to him, he revenged himself by writing the Duchess de Langeais, attributing to the foolish old general his own hopes, fears, and disappointments at the hands of the coquettish, capricious duchess. "I alone," he said in a letter, "know the horrible that is in this narrative."
There was nothing further from his mind than that the captain should deceive him; if the captain was pleased, why, so was he. "All right," he said. "Tell your men to get their chests aboard." "Mr. Goddedaal, turn the hands to to get the chests aboard," said Wicks. The four Currency Lasses had waited the while on tenter-hooks.
If you find him not here, you shall in Paul's, with a pick-tooth in his hat, cape-cloak, and a long stocking. Is a young thing, whose father went to the devil; he is followed like a salt bitch, and limbed by him that gets up first; his disposition is cut, and knaves rend him like tenter-hooks; he is as blind as his mother, and swallows flatterers for friends.
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