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Floor and ceiling above them brought down the sounds of a company near at hand, the scraping of a chair-leg, the muffled echo of voices. Carlisle's foot trod upon the bottom step of the broad stairway. "I wonder if you would give me five minutes after the meeting, Miss Heth?" said the young man's voice behind her. "There's a a matter I've wanted very much to speak to you about."
Polter was standing by the chair in which the man at the microscope was sitting. And Polter's head barely reached its seat! Babs was clinging to him now. Another moment and they were both tiny figures down by the chair-leg. Then they began walking with swaying steps toward the miniature railing of the white slab. The white reflection from the slab plainly illumined them.
The door falls to. Five flights up, another opens upon a bare attic room which a patient little woman is setting to rights. There are only three chairs, a box, and a bedstead in the room, but they take a deal of careful arranging. The bed hides the broken plaster in the wall through which the wind came in; each chair-leg stands over a rat-hole, at once to hide it and to keep the rats out.
'I'm not going to say I'm sorry if you mean that, said Robert, and the chair-leg cracked to the kick he gave as he said it. 'Oh, do let's, said Anthea, 'we're three to one, and Mother does so hate it if we row. Come on. I'll say I'm sorry first, though I didn't say anything, hardly. 'All right, let's get it over, said Cyril, opening the door.'Hi you Pussy!
Cheers, more cheers, and yet again cheers; cheers running on and on as though they never meant to stop; spontaneous waves of applause that meant, what nearly all knew, that Maginnis personally had captured Hunston, and that his efficiency with a chair-leg had reared him into a kind of demi-god among certain rough fellows of the baser sort.
Damn my soul, if I wouldn't rather make young Manson my heir than you! No, by Jove, you shall not have your damned tools! Leave the house. You cannot claim a chair-leg in it!" Richard bowed, and went; got his hat and stick; and walked from the house with about thirty shillings in his pocket. His heart was like a lump of lead, but he was nowise dismayed. He was in no perplexity how to live.
But let me tell you, my friend " A chair-leg scraped on the carpeted floor, and Queed was standing, playing his trump card with a grim face. "We must say good-by, Professor now. I'll send for my things in the morning." "What do you mean, you " "That you and I part company to-night. Good-by." "Stop!" cried Surface. He rose, greatly excited and leaned over the table.
"... ye filthy scum, ye lousy sons o' dogs!" he ended. "Ha, will ye fight agin my orders, then mutiny is it?" "And who a plague are you and be cursed to ye!" panted a great fellow, flourishing a broken chair-leg threateningly and scowling in murderous fashion. "He'll tell ye there, behind ye, fool!" snarled Penfeather, pointing sinewy finger.
The boot which had put an end to his share in the riot had raised its bruise under his hair, so he was able to remove the bandages from his head as soon as he got into the street. There still remained a long strip of plaster meant to keep a dressing of iodoform in its place over the cut on his cheek which Mr. Shea's chair-leg had inflicted.
God's feet, if I pommel you for this! Pommel him he did; and, having drawn blood at his ears, he turned him over his knee as if he had been a schoolboy, and lathered his rump with a chair-leg. This humiliating punishment had humiliating effects. Gilles believed himself a boy in the cloister-school again, with his smock up. 'Mea culpa, mea culpa! Hey, reverend father, have pity! he began to roar.
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