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His criminal had thus outwitted the gumshoe fraternity. A strongly-built, groomed apache smelling of cologne and onions greeted my v-f-g with that affection which is peculiar to gendarmes. On me he stared cynically, then sneered frankly. With a little tooty shriek the funny train tottered in. My captors had taken pains to place themselves at the wrong end of the platform.
He tottered rather than walked, and was almost unrecognisable from the effects of his sufferings during the night; he was colourless, haggard, his face swollen and even bleeding, and his merciless persecutors continued to torment him each moment more and more.
All this Eleanor saw in his face as she dismounted. Lucy, who had been watching for her all the afternoon, was at the moment for some reason or other with Reggie in the village. Eleanor, with her hand on Marie's arm, tottered across the courtyard. At the convent door her strength failed her. She turned to Manisty. 'I can't walk up these stairs. Do you think you could carry me? I am very light.
Mrs Moffatt gasped for breath, her face twitched convulsively, and she tottered as she stood. "You mean that? Oh, God bless you, Cornelia Briskett! If there are any blessings going, there's no one on earth deserves them more than you. You've saved me this time. Whatever happens in the future, you've given me a chance." "That's so, but the question is, are you going to take it?
One which I succeeded in tracking home, an instance for a specimen, was a seventh share in the charter of a certain ill-starred schooner bound for Mexico to smuggle weapons on the one trip, and cigars upon the other. "It's proved a disappointment," was as far as my friend would go with me in words; but I knew, from observation, that the fabric of his fortunes tottered.
"See after the man who threw this letter in," exclaimed Harkaway. "Come with me come, come immediately!" And with this somewhat wild exhortation, he tottered out of the room, followed by Dick. Everybody arose from the table in confusion. Dismay, alarm, was depicted in every face. "What can it be?" ejaculated Mrs. Harkaway. "Oh, Mr. Jefferson, go and see, and bring me the news." "I will.
"What's the matter?" she exclaimed, with a faint cry. "What's happened to him?" "Nothing," said Mr. Mills, hastily. "Nothing serious, that is. I just came round to warn you so that you will be able to know it's him." Mrs. Simpson let off a shriek that set his ears tingling. Then, steadying herself by the wall, she tottered into the front room, followed by the discomfited Mr.
In vain Sprinkler struck out blindly behind him; he tottered—but suddenly he saw that Gerwazy was fighting close by; he shouted, “Jesus Maria! the penknife!” The Warden, hearing Baptist’s cry, knew that he was in mortal terror; he turned back, and plunged the sharp steel blade between the head of Baptist and the hands of the Muscovites.
If you did she would rise from her sick bed and come herself." Gregory at once rose and said, "I can make no excuse for myself. I seem fated to do and say the worst things possible under the circumstances." "You are ill," said Miss Eulie, kindly, as if that explained everything. Declining aid, he tottered to the carriage, into which Jeff, with some curious surmises, helped him.
He pictured to himself the terrible journey from the interior, the lash of the brutal driver descending on her shoulders as she tottered on with her infant in her arms, her knees bending from weakness, her feet torn with thorns and hard rocks she who had been so tenderly cared for whom he loved so dearly; the thought was more than he could bear.
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