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Well! I might have taken him away from her altogether. He wanted to throw her over, only I wouldn't have it." "Oh!" Mrs. Creddle gasped; then went on in a low tone of apprehension and unhappiness. "I didn't think it was as bad as that, Carrie." "Bad!" Caroline stared with genuine surprise at this reception of her bomb-shell. "He wanted to marry me, I tell you." Mrs. Creddle shook her head.
"But I have not," interrupt I, speaking for the first time, and with a snuffliness of tone engendered by much crying. "Have not? have not what?" "Have not a house-warming in prospect," reply I, with distinct malignity. A moment's silence. My bomb-shell has worked quite as much havoc as I expected. "But where has it gone to since this morning?" asks Algy, looking rather blank.
A bomb-shell could hardly have created greater astonishment, and the project, at first, was met with disfavour. It was thought that it would not "do" a second time; that the novelty of the affair was over; that people would not go twice; and that the result would be a failure.
But the violets had made a fearful hole in my thirteen dollars. I borrowed a stub pen at the stationer's and I wrote on the photograph, in large, sprawling letters, "To YOU from ME." "There," I said to myself, when I put it under the pillow. "You look like a photograph, but you are really a bomb-shell." As things eventuated, it was. More so, indeed. Mother sent for me when I came in.
Found no answer to my question in letter of last Tuesday. Must! It was nice of Jane to write out and get ready her bomb-shell and then go off with Polk, so as not to see it explode. But I'm glad she did.
As the house grew silent he brought in his despatch-box from the hall and began to read through the skeleton of a novel which he had promised himself to write as soon as "The Bomb-Shell" was safely launched. In the second week of the war he had spent an afternoon in a recruiting office with men of all ages and physiques, pressing forward for enrolment.
In this treaty, with studied neglect, even the name of the emperor was not mentioned; and yet the allies, as if to provoke a quarrel, sent Charles VI. a copy, peremptorily demanding assent to the treaty without his having taken any part whatever in the negotiation. This insulting demand fell like a bomb-shell in the palace at Vienna.
The awful jest bursts upon him; he hears the screaming of the bomb-shell, then the explosion. It is a shock, but he never once loses his self-possession. His quick perception detects Friend Frisbie behind the gun; and he smiles with his intelligent, fine-cut face. Shall malice have the pleasure of knowing that the shot has told? Our orator is too sagacious for that.
Prince and a couple of pecks of clams went up in the air like a busted bomb-shell, and I broke for the fence I'd started for. I hung on to the other dreener, though, just out of principle. "But I had to let go of it, after all. The dog come out of the collision looking like a plate of scrambled eggs, and took after me harder'n ever, shedding shells and clam juice something scandalous.
Neither lead nor iron took any effect upon him, and his bag with food in front of him guarded him against the bullets as if it were a rampart. So they commenced throwing bomb-shells and firing cannons at him. He only grinned a little every time he felt them. "They don't hurt me a bit," he said. But just then he got a bomb-shell right down his windpipe.
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