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They clung desperately to their bags when a porter attempted to carry them. A man bumped violently against Madge, but he made no effort to apologize as he rushed on through the crowd. "I never saw so many people in such a hurry in my life," declared Nellie pettishly. "They behave as though they thought New York City were on fire and they were all rushing to put the fire out.

The Dulcibella, hitherto contemptuously inert, began to wake and tremble under the buffetings she received. Then, with an effort, she jerked herself on to an even keel and bumped and strained fretfully, impatient to vanquish this insolent invader and make him a slave for her own ends.

So he breathed a little freer, yet kept his eyes fast upon the play-house until the wherry bumped against Blackfriars stairs. Picking up the basket of truck, he sprang ashore, and, dropping it upon the landing, took to his heels up the bank, without stopping to thank either gardener or boatman. The gray walls of the old friary were just ahead, scarcely a stone's throw from the river.

Obediently Pachuca swung into the next speed and the car bumped cheerfully along, the big lights casting a bewildering glare before them. "If I only knew where we were and what he has up his sleeve!" the girl groaned inwardly. "I know he has something because he isn't making any fuss. This road is rougher than it was when we came, too; he has taken a wrong turn I know he has!"

Oh, don't you ever go frettin' about me, lad, when ah, well! when they's nothin' but fog t' fear. Sure, 'twasn't no trouble for me t' find North Tickle in the fog. Ah, me! If 'twas only that! Sure, I bumped her nose agin the point o' God's Warning, an' rattled her bones a bit, but, lad, me an' the punt is used t' little things like that. Oh, ay," he repeated, dismally, "I got in."

"Gone to Detroit, he has," said Mrs. Meecher. "Miss Doland, too." She broke off to speak a caustic word to the boarding-house handyman, who, with Sally's trunk as a weapon, was depreciating the value of the wall-paper in the hall. "There's that play of his being tried out there, you know, Monday," resumed Mrs. Meecher, after the handyman had bumped his way up the staircase.

Just then a sturdy little figure bumped against him and he looked down as the newcomer grasped his arm tightly. "Hello, Turk! It's about time you were showing up. Where the devil have you been?" exclaimed he, wrathfully. "I'll tell y' all about it w'en I gits me tires pumped full agin. Come on, come on; it's private strictly private, an' nobody's nex' but me."

And I grieve to say that when he reached his goal two policemen, not devoid of rude wit, who had been conferring together as they bumped in their saddles, arranged an entertainment for his behoof. It consisted of first one and then the other entering his room with prodigious details of war, the massing of bloodthirsty and devilish tribes, and the burning of towns.

Had the yawl, while Lady Moya was taking the oars, NOT swung in a circle, and had the sun NOT risen, in three minutes more we would have bumped ourselves into the State of Connecticut. The cottage stood on one horn of a tiny harbor. Beyond it, weather-beaten shingled houses, sail-lofts, and wharfs stretched cosily in a half-circle.

For a well-aimed swing of the bolster laid him sprawling on the floor. 'Take that for mentioning such a word! 'My eyes, Lance, is it swearing? said Bernard, with a little affectation of innocence. 'How you have been and bumped my knees; and he sat on the floor, pulling up his trousers to gain a view; 'there'll be a bruise as big as half a crown!