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The two patriot youths, although taken by surprise, and outnumbered two to one, were yet not dismayed, for they were brave lads, and they fought the Tory youths with all their might, so fiercely, in fact, that they held their own remarkably well. They knocked down each of the four young Tories, and gave them a thumping that they would likely remember for some time.
Then there was a good deal of thumping and stamping about, and I fancied that they were going to open the hatch again. Under these circumstances I did not let Barney, who was thoroughly eager to show his prowess, make the trial; but at last all was quiet on deck, save that there was a good deal of talking and singing right aft, and as it seemed to me in the saloon.
Of Lingard, with whom he had only been a short time having been picked up in Madras Roads out of a home ship, which he had to leave after a thumping row with the master he generally approved, although he recognized with regret that this man, like most others, had some absurd fads; he defined them as "bottom-upwards notions."
"And what did you do with the dead branch after that?" "I threw it away into the water, and it floated down the river." The beggar to whom the money had been given ran out of the house howling, and down to the river-side, thumping his head with his knuckles like one possessed.
"Ech, we are not accustomed to constitutional methods yet!" remarked the major. "Mr. Lyamshin, excuse me, but you are thumping so that no one can hear anything," observed the lame teacher. "But, upon my word, Arina Prohorovna, nobody is listening, really!" cried Lyamshin, jumping up. "I won't play! I've come to you as a visitor, not as a drummer!"
And Samuel was famished and wild and weak and gasping; when at last it dawned upon his senses that a passing train had begun to make less noise that the thumping was growing slower. The train was stopping. He leaped up and began to pound. Then he realized that he must control himself he must save his strength until the train had stopped. But suppose it went on without delay?
The springs of the stage, rising and falling regularly, produced a rhythmical beat which began to absorb my attention painfully. Slowly this thumping merged into a senseless echo of the mysterious female of the hotel parlor, and shaped itself into this awful and benumbing axiom "Praise-to-the-face-is-open-disgrace. Praise-to-the-face-is-open-disgrace."
As the hour of dinner approached, the guests began to arrive in considerable numbers; and carts, and cars, and waggons came bumping and thumping over the uneven path, though the greater part made their appearance on horseback.
A dull-red glare grew from the depths of the ravine; crimson shadows shook across the wall of earth and rock. Above the roaring of the stream I heard an immense confused murmur and the smothered thumping rhythm of distant drumming. "Go on," I whispered. Mount crawled forward, Sir George and I after him.
But they have been moving forward all the time, the hurtling bullets sweeping through the leafy covering, now and then thumping into the soft pine with a vicious joyousness, as if to say to each man, "The next is for you, see how well our work is done." For these hideous missiles have a language of their own, as every man that stood fire can tell. The skirmishers are now all drawn in.
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