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It was Pinocchio who had shut it, and for greater security he put a large stone against it to keep it closed. He then began to bark, and he barked exactly like a watch-dog: "Bow-wow, bow-wow." Hearing the barking, the peasant jumped out of bed and, taking his gun, he came to the window and asked: "What is the matter?" "There are robbers!" answered Pinocchio. "Where are they?"
But the obstinate Judge who perhaps, after all, was more inquisitive than kindly evidently wanted to hear the story out, and she was ordered, the next day, to continue her deposition. She said that after the disappearance of the old watch-dog nothing particular happened for a month or two. Her husband was much as usual: she did not remember any special incident.
Benjamin Vajdar, black with guilt as he knew himself to be, chose the shrewder course of remaining in Vienna and calmly going about his business, with all the outward confidence of spotless innocence. Suspicion is much like a watch-dog; it leaps upon the man who quails.
"What is still more extraordinary, Monsieur," replied the other, "is that I saw them with my own eyes, five minutes ago, enter this house and I, too, saw their carriage drive away.".... He felt his anger increase and direct itself altogether against the watch-dog so suddenly raised upon the threshold of his rival's house. Florent, on his part, had begun to lose patience.
And remember, she added, 'my little watch-dog there has eyes, as I have already told you, and though she knows nothing of English, I should guess her to be a very fair judge of tone. Come now, you stupid boy, she continued in a voice so level and cool that no one who did not understand her words could have guessed their purport, 'I will make a bargain with you.
He was more a watch-dog than Biribi; he fetched and carried; he was silent and sleepless always sleepless. It was as if some past misfortune had opened his eyes to the awful bitterness of life, and they had never closed again. The Chevalier had not been with her, for on the afternoon of the very day her grandfather died, he had gone a secret voyage to St.
The soldier, too, returned, bearing the seven objects which had accompanied her travels. "You will clean mademoiselle's shoes, brush her uniform, and bring her hot water when she needs it," ordered the commandant, and the soldier saluted impassively a watch-dog who had been told that it was the house-cat after all.
Bert stood very still for a moment, but could hear no one stirring. He walked on a few steps, Cuff purring loudly, and rubbing her soft gray sides against him. "Bow, wow, wow, wow," barked the faithful watch-dog. "Be quiet, Prince. Stop your noise!"
Am not I encharged with his affairs?" Mohammed was rather tall, and of lean habit of body, like all Arabs. His hearing and sight were very quick, and he always seemed to sleep like a watch-dog. His bravery I never tested. He was mostly lively and facetious. He was good-looking, and about thirty years of age. I saw him after my return to Tripoli. He wanted to go with me again.
The watch-dog in the nurseryman's garden hard by, was as quiet on this particular night as if he had actually barked himself dumb at last. Outside the house, as well as inside, the drowsy reign of old primeval Quiet was undisturbed by the innovating vagaries of the rebel, Noise. Undisturbed, till the clock in the hall pointed to a quarter past eleven.
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