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The raw earth-ends were crawling and alive with hundreds upon hundreds of tiny asses climbing out of the yawning borrow-pit below with sackfuls of stuff; and the hot afternoon air was filled with the noise of hooves, the rattle of the drivers' sticks, and the swish and roll-down of the dirt.
He spent a month in dawdling about the neighbourhood, taking stock of his new possessions, now and then suggesting some alteration or improvement, but always too lazy to carry it out; strolling in the park with a couple of dogs and a cigar, or going fly-fishing along the bank of a little winding river; driving in an open carriage with his mother; yawning over a book or a newspaper all the evening, and then sitting up till late into the night, writing letters which might just as easily have been written in the day.
Grace then awakened Elfreda and asked her to take the watch for a couple of hours, saying she was very tired. Elfreda got up sleepily and, for several minutes, sat with hands clasped to her head. "Anything stirring?" she asked, yawning. "Nothing except the Mystery Man. He stirred himself out of camp. He rolled out. I do not believe he will return to-night." "Queer chap, that.
He leant, yawning, against the wall, feeling the evening interminable. Then a Harrow and Oxford acquaintance came up to him, and they chatted for a time behind a stand of flowers that stood between them and one of the doorways to the ballroom. At the end of the dance George saw Lady Cathedine hurrying up to this door with the quick, furtive step that was characteristic of her.
The panels had already been splintered to pieces and the iron plates driven from their bolts by the tremendous blows of the hammer, but the stout bar still stood. Through the yawning holes in the upper part of the door the hammermen could be seen at work without. Five guns flashed out, and yells and heavy falls told that the discharge had taken serious effect.
At the words a swift change came to David's face. His cheeks paled and his eyes dilated in terror. It was as if ahead of him he saw a yawning abyss, eager to engulf him. "And you say MONEY would fix it?" he asked thickly. "Ex-ACT-ly! a thousand o' them, though, 't would take." A dawning relief came into David's eyes it was as if he saw a bridge across the abyss.
he hummed, swinging his legs vigorously. "Ladies and gentlemen, it's all over but the shooting. Arthur, I saw your battery horses; they belong in a glue factory. How arc you going to save your guns when the rebs come after you?" "God knows, especially if the Zouaves support us," replied Wye, yawning again. Then, rising: "I've got to get back to that cursed fort. I'll escort anybody who'll let me."
A door flew open, letting out a beam of light as Martins came out, clad only in his underclothes and yawning prodigiously. "Did you call, sir?" he asked, blinking foolishly as he studied the flashing rays of the sky-searching lights. "Yes! Get the car! Snappy, now!" "Yes, sir. Just as soon as I can get on some clothes." "Hang the clothes!
It was his devoted bunky, Private Latrobe, who volunteered to carry the division commander's dispatch across the open rice field and the yawning ditches that separated the staff from the rest of the charging teenth, and who died gloriously in the rush on the rebel works.
The principal party interested in these slanders, was, however, now calmly gliding on toward Aden, while the dead millionaire was alike oblivious to the lovely daughter whom he had crushed as a bruised flower, the haughty woman who had defied him in his wrath, and the administration of the million sterling which was the golden monument over his yawning grave!