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A watch chain dangled down in a parabolic loop. Then followed a round face, beef-red with stooping. It looked under apoplectically at us. "Ah, me b'yes, c'm on out o' there!" And out we came, dragged by the foot, one after the other, as I myself in my childhood have pulled frogs out from a hole in a brook-bank.
Up to the very last second of his life his mind was filled with a whirl of business schemes; it was while discussing railroad plans with Robert Garrett in his mansion, on December 8, 1885, that he suddenly shot forward from his chair and fell apoplectically to the floor, and in a twinkling was dead.
"I hear," said Clarence casually, "that he has been going very well at the Lobelia. A friend of mine who was there last night told me he took eleven calls." For a moment the Russian General's face swelled apoplectically. Then he recovered himself with a tremendous effort. "Wait!" he said, with awful calm. "Wait till to-morrow night! I'll show him! Went very well, did he? Ha!
We were so worried about you. They just phoned from the kennels that you had gotten away. I might have known you'd find your way to us. We " She got no further. Up the walk, from the road, came running an apoplectically red and puffing man of late middle age; a man whose face bore traces of lather; and who was swathed in a purple bathrobe. Flapping slippers ill-covered his sockless feet.
His voice rasped harshly on the hot courage of the American. "Canaille," he blurted apoplectically, "how dared you run down Her Grace with your cursed car? Your touch profanes her person. Surrender her instantly." It was a blow in the face to Carter.
His enormous face was like one of those gigantic railway bull's-eyes which, screened by the red, signal the stoppage of the train. But it was highly probable that his rival would disregard the block, and decline to shut off steam. This J. R. Taskinar felt. The blood mounted to his brows, and seemed apoplectically congested there.
Aida, who had been gurgling apoplectically, sprang snarling from the basket, and made for the intruder open-mouthed. Her shrill barking rang through the room. Lord Wisbeach hated little dogs. He hated and feared them. Many men of action have these idiosyncrasies. He got behind a chair and said "There, there."
I began to grow a little uneasy. A disagreeable surprise, if my excursion, in which I was to break banks and hearts, and, as you see, heads, should end upon the gallows or the guillotine. I was not clear, in those times of political oscillation, which was the established apparatus. The Colonel was conveyed, snorting apoplectically, to his room.
Do you suppose I'll allow my private affairs to be made, again, an occasion for indulging your taste for theatricals?" The chaplain flushed apoplectically. He just managed to stammer out, "I will not remain another instant to listen to your blasphemous insults. If you mean to prevent me from passing, I will return another way."
The Arab was too apoplectically angry to comply, but Crothers took him by both shoulders and shoved him; and finding himself shot forward out of reach, seeing safety ahead and its possible corollary of awful vengeance, he suddenly achieved discretion and scampered through the gap in the wall. "'E's gone to fetch his pals. Look out, mate!" warned Joe Byng. "Not 'im!" vowed Crothers.
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