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I had crept into my corner, and soon as the soldiers came thicker and thicker, the noise grew more and more deafening, the dust floated in hazy clouds. The men had their kettles and they boiled tea, squatting down there, sometimes little processions pushed their way through, soldiers shouting and laughing with some white-faced policeman in their midst.
A doctor, immediately summoned by the horseman, had set the fractured member. Algy had then been put to bed in a tent that was pitched in the yard where the horses, mules, cows, pyramids of merchandise, and teamsters were thicker than flies on molasses. Gettysburg and Napoleon, quietly informed by Van of the latest turn of their fortune, were wholly unexcited by the news.
First of all there was the owner of the car, Dr. Philip Holiday himself, a married man now, with a small son and daughter of his own, "Miss Margery's" children. A little thicker of build and thinner of hair was the doctor, but possessed of the same genial friendliness of manner and whimsical humor, the same steady hand held out to help wherever and whenever help was needed.
It did not resemble the others, being longer and considerably thicker; the binding was of dingy calf-skin. I opened it, and as I did so another strange thrill of pleasure shot through my frame.
So saying, they laid hands on him, dragged him down from where he stood, seized him by the hair, tore the clothes from his back, and fell to beating and kicking him, so that it seemed to him as if all the world were upon him. He cried out: "Pity, for God's sake," and defended himself as best he could: all in vain, however; the press became thicker and thicker moment by moment.
Quentin. He's here. He'll be so glad to see you." "Here?" "Certes. He's closeted now with M. de Mayenne. They're thicker than brothers. Go see for yourself, M. Lucas." "Where is mademoiselle?" "Safe. She's to marry the Comte de Mar to-morrow." He stared at me for one moment, weighing whether this could be true; then without further parley he shot into the house. "Is that true?" d'Auvray demanded.
But the generation was gone away which had known the tree in its beauty, and so men said it was always so its fruits were never better its foliage never was thicker.
Cleared it with some difficulty by shifting some cargo forward and then revolving wheel till, blade by blade, we cleared it with axes from the small boats." June 22nd. "Seaweed seems to be getting thicker. With difficulty we progress at all. Mate Hooper just suggested terrifying possibility. Are we in the Sargasso?" June 25.
He saw another Boer fall and yet another and a third; but one khaki-colored figure lay stiffly beside him, and another was dragging itself away to a corner of the kraal, to give greater space to its unwounded comrades. And still the bullets whizzed about them, thick and ever thicker. Piggie shied again.
It is scarcely necessary to say that such a preposterous idea never entered the minds of any of the Uitlanders. When all is said and done, blood is thicker than water, alike with the Uitlanders as with the Boers.
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