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Updated: June 8, 2025
Be wise: there are hundreds of your people who still will pass a Royalist on to safety." The Duke's hand dropped from the bell-rope. He knew that Detricand's words were true. Ruling himself to quiet, he said with cold hatred: "Like all your breed, crafty and insolent. But I will make you pay for it one day."
"Oh!" cried the desperate mother, as if suddenly throwing off the oppressive influence of some magic trance, "help, help!" and like a mad creature she rushed towards the bell-rope which hung beside the hearth.
Rawdon Crawley rang many times in vain; and though, on the last occasion, she rang with such vehemence as to pull down the bell-rope, Mademoiselle Fifine did not make her appearance no, not though her mistress, in a great pet, and with the bell-rope in her hand, came out to the landing-place with her hair over her shoulders and screamed out repeatedly for her attendant.
I can see him even now standing in the morning with his hand on the bell-rope, ready to give the signal, calling teachers and scholars to engage in the duties of the day. As we passed by, entering the school-room, he had a cheerful word for every one. He was probably the most popular person in the institution. He was always good-natured, fond of conversation, and very entertaining.
I assure you, I am looking on, with all the interest of a man of the world, at the development of your highly original character. He continued to study my face without speech, his hand still on the button of the bell-rope, his eyes in mine; this was the decisive heat. I was besides harassed with doubts.
"We are going in here," he said to Prosper; "come." They went up the steps, and stopped on the second floor, before a door over which was a large sign, "Fashionable Dressmaker." A handsome bell-rope hung on the wall, but M. Verduret did not touch it.
The table near the bed was overturned on the floor, and the glass and the night-lamp both lie smashed to pieces on the carpet. 'Send for a doctor at once, cried Madame, letting go the bell-rope and crossing to the window; 'Selina has had a fit of some sort. Startled servant goes out to stables and wakes up the grooms, one of whom is soon on horseback riding for dear life to Dr Chinston.
There was something imperious, fantastic, and strange in the motion communicated to the bell-rope which disturbed me, and it was with real anxiety that I went myself to open the door. And whom did I find on the landing? The young American recently so absorbed at the reading of my treatise. It was Miss Morgan in person. "Monsieur Pigeonneau?" "Yes."
"Time to pull that bell-rope when the danger was present or imminent," she thought to herself. "The thing will come smelling about before it attacks me, and then I will pull the bell;" and so she passed an hour of agony.
Samuel Adams said it, and one of Sergeant Munroe's men ran to the green, seized the bell-rope, and set the meetinghouse bell to clanging, sending the alarm far and wide upon the still night air. In the farmhouses candles were quickly lighted, and the minute-men, who had agreed to obey a summons at a moment's warning, came running with musket, bullet-pouch, and powder-horn, to the rendezvous.
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