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Updated: June 9, 2025
One idea had burnt itself into the poor man's brain, and that was the duty that lay on him to ring the alarm-bell! Seeing this, the fireman seized him, and dragged him forcibly almost lifted him into the station, round the door of which an eager crowd had already begun to collect. "Calm yourself," said the stalwart fireman quietly, as he thrust Hopkins down into a chair. "Consider now.
He looks out of a window and shuts it without listening to me, I knock again, I swear, I call out loudly, all in vain, Giving way to my rage, I take aim at a poor sheep grazing with several others at a short distance, and kill it. The herdsman begins to scream, the papa shows himself at the window, calling out, "Thieves! Murder!" and orders the alarm-bell to be rung.
He reflected for a few moments before his bewildered subordinates, then he continued: "We must act and not hesitate; minutes count as hours in times like these. All depends on the promptness of our decision. You, Picart, go to the cure and order him to ring the alarm-bell, in order to get together the people, to whom I am going to announce the news.
"You shall be Pope, my boy and I'll be the Pope's butler. Allow me to help your sacred majesty back to your chair." Jack's answer betrayed another change in him. His tones were lofty; his manner was distant. "I prefer the floor," he said; "hand me down my mug." As he reached up to take it, the alarm-bell over the door caught his eye.
I've heard you gentlemen insinuating so much together that I fancy every night I hear the great alarm-bell booming in my dreams." "There's no danger of that here." "But it would be so terrible anywhere!" "Here is Will," said her mother, as the young brother of Laura entered. "If, my dear friends, we should change the subject for bed-candles" "Check!" said Mr. St. George, rising.
The violence of the north wind, driving the flames in waves before it, soon brought to the ears of M. Hardy the hurried clanging of the alarm-bell of the burning factory. We wish it to be understood, that the necessities of our story alone have made the Wolves the assailants.
All communication through the valley was stopt; it was impossible to organize help; and the alarm-bell was incessantly sounding over the immense white desolation like a knell for the dead. In the narrow defile in which we now are, there are many remains of avalanches that neither the water of the torrent nor the heat of the sun has had power to melt.
The whole of the lower valley of the Inn had, on the self-same day, been raised by Joseph Speckbacher, a wealthy peasant of Rinn, the greatest hero called into existence by this fearful peasant war. The alarm-bell pealed from every church tower throughout the country. A Bavarian troop, at that time engaged in levying contributions at Axoms as a punishment for disobedience, hastily fled.
The man was hurrying to the door, when suddenly there came towards them on the wind, the loud and rapid tolling of an alarm-bell, and then a bright and vivid glare streamed up, which illumined, not only the whole chamber, but all the country.
With those wires above him, any day a traveller can cry for help to the Territory, if he call while he yet has strength to climb one of those friendly posts and cut that quivering wire for help that will come speedily, for the cutting of the telegraph wire is as the ringing of an alarm-bell throughout the Territory.
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