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Just a brief glimpse of his immediate surroundings vouchsafed Bradley before he was whisked into the interior of one of the buildings; but in that momentary glance he saw strange piles of stone and wood and mud fashioned into buildings of all conceivable sizes and shapes, sometimes piled high on top of one another, sometimes standing alone in an open court-way, but usually crowded and jammed together, so that there were no streets or alleys between them other than a few which ended almost as soon as they began.
In that direction it was all alert, and she had whisked before it the mild fragrance of a "connexion."
Presently the rider whisked behind a point of sage-dotted hill and was gone. Vesta lifted her hands slowly and pressed them to her eyes, shivering as if struck by a chill. Twice or thrice this convulsive shudder shook her. She bowed her head a little, the sound of a sob behind her pressing hands.
'Hey! cried the Baron, 'there falls a dynasty, and it was I that felled it; and I and you inherit! He seemed to swell in stature; and next moment, with a laugh, he put his hand forward. Give me the dagger, said he. But she whisked the paper suddenly behind her back and faced him, lowering. 'No, no, she said. 'You and I have first a point to settle. Do you suppose me blind?
Ruth, seeing that there was more room in the second carriage, whisked into it, and Helen was following her when Mary Cox came up. "Going to get in here, Cameron?" she said. "Well, I'll get in with you no, I won't!" she suddenly exclaimed, seeing Ruth peering out. "Come on to the other wagonette; Belle and Lluella are there." For a moment Helen hesitated.
They were shrieking and howling, and making all sorts of horrible noises, while they jumped, and leaped, and whirled round and round with the most extraordinary grimaces, distorting their bodies in every conceivable form, while their hair was tossed up and down in all directions, and whisked about like the reef points of a sail in a gale of wind. Dango looked at them with supreme contempt.
His waiter whisked away the clam cocktail and put down the clear turtle. As Harleston took up his spoon, a page spoke a word to Philippe, who motioned him to Harleston's corner. The next instant the boy was there, a letter on the extended salver then he faded away. Harleston put aside the letter until he had finished his soup; then he picked it up and turned it over.
I wish But, hush, somebody's coming this way;" and in an instant Nelly had whisked into her pocket the note she had written, and the cousins were walking down the room, talking in a loud tone about their lessons.
Not only that the sparrows noisily criticized his work, and the chestnuts scornfully whisked their tails under his nose, but the harrows also objected, and resisted at every little stone or clod of earth. The tired horses continually stumbled, and when Slimak cried 'Woa, my lads! and they went on, the harrows again resisted and pulled them back.
His new teeth, which did not fit him very securely, troubled him greatly, and he spoke with one hand held alertly, ready to catch them if they fell, but his smile was a radiant grin, and his shrewd old face was good to look at as he faced the splendors of the limited express. "'Tis foine as a bar-room," said he. "To be whisked about over the world like this is no hairdship.
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