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Jing! but he gave it to me hot and heavy about letting you get that tumble! He needn't. I felt bad enough about it already." "Oh, did you, Dan?" asked Fred, quite overcome by such an admission. "Rotten!" was the emphatic answer. "Couldn't eat any dinner, though we had cherry dumpling. And Brother Bart rubbed it in, saying I had killed you.
And as the piano clicked down its cover, he would yawn, and get up and say something in very rapid German to himself, and off he would go, forgetting all about his book or newspaper, which, very likely, would tumble to the floor, and flap away by itself till somebody came and picked it up and set it on the sofa. One morning old Mr.
I expected to see the whole force of Indians come down upon us. While I was standing thus bewildered, the men, who had heard the shot and the war-whoop and had seen the Indian take a tumble, came rushing back. "Who fired that shot?" cried Frank McCarthy. "I did," replied I, rather proudly, as my confidence returned and I saw the men coming up.
Three soldiers are detailed from the consulate staff to escort me through the city; en route through the streets the pressure of the rabble forces one unlucky individual into one of the dangerous narrow holes that abound in the streets, up to his neck; the crowd yell with delight at seeing him tumble in, and nobody stops to render him any assistance or to ascertain whether he is seriously hurt.
'She's more sore cause she thinks he'll lose than anythin' else, I says to myself. 'He ain't in so bad, after all. But Mr. Van don't tumble. He's awful glum from then on. "There's a fierce mob of swells at the course the day of the race, classy rigs as far as you can see. The last thing I says to Mr.
The chairs and tables joined, at last, in the tumults, and things looked altogether so serious and inexplicable, that the neighbours, dreading that the house itself would next be seized with a fit of motion, and tumble about their ears, left poor Mrs. Golding to bear the brunt of it by herself.
The tower is still standing, and the great room where the monks ate and drank used at present as a granary. The house itself seems to have been tacked on to the ruins anyhow. No two rooms in it are on the same level. The children do nothing but tumble about the passages, because there always happens to be a step up or down, just at the darkest part of every one of them.
As I could not have made much progress in the uncertain light of the moon, I climbed into a forked branch of the tree, and tying my arm to a bough that I might not tumble off, I tried to get a little more sleep. It was not very sound, for the recollection that the bear might possibly take it into his head to pay me a visit kept me wakeful.
Then he arose and left me to tumble incontinently into bed. I Unmask My Enemy Tired Nature asserted herself and took the full twelve hours. But I felt like another man when I left the house next morning, and I was eager to grapple anew with the mystery. I found two reports awaiting me at the office: Mr.
Mind you don't let Olly tumble into bogs, and mind you bring me a bunch of ferns for the dinner-table and there'll be two things done at any rate." So away ran Milly; and all the morning she and Olly and father scrambled and climbed, and raced and chatted, on the green back of old Brownholme.
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