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The tin trunk clanked noisily though Susan lifted it with tactful care, and Henrietta blushed for it, but the aged portmanteau, bearing the initials R. M., became in the discreet presence of Susan a priceless possession. 'It's full of books, Henrietta said; 'I won't unpack them. I thought my aunts would let me keep them somewhere. They are my father's books.
She did not know anyone was near her, and when I moved and my spurs clanked on the stones, she started, and turned her eyes slowly toward the shadow in which I sat. During dinner they must have told her which one of us was to fight the duel, for when she recognized me she moved sharply away.
Steve was clad for the summer trail, and his leather chapps creaked, and his spurs clanked as he passed round to the tying post at which his horse was tethered. Force of habit made him test the cinchas of his saddle before mounting. He spoke over his shoulder to the man who had risen to his feet at his coming. "Guess you got everything right, Corporal?" he said. "Everything, sir." "Good.
So saying, Sir Benedict mounted and rode to the head of his lances, where flew his banner. "Unbar the gates!" he cried. And presently the great gates of Belsaye town swung wide, the portcullis clanked up, the drawbridge fell, and thus afar off they beheld where, 'mid swirling dust-cloud the battle raged fierce and fell.
Every few minutes the door would rattle and be clanked open to admit an officer who had brought a number of friends to see the latest sensation the English spies.
And finally, he read what, after Adam's telling of the truth, he had scribbled at the end. "Life is a battle. I do not fight. And life is not an individual adventure." It wasn't. It was a chain that clanked. "I do not fight," he read again and crossed it out. "Adam, old man," he said wryly, "I think to-night I've done some fighting. And the fight has just begun."
"You might have got over a great quantity of ground in seven years," said Scrooge. The Ghost, on hearing this, set up another cry, and clanked its chain so hideously in the dead silence of the night, that the Ward would have been justified in indicting it for a nuisance.
The old witch was waiting for him at the gate, and whispered as he passed: 'This is the last time you will ever enter it. But the sword clanked, and the lad did not even look at her. As he crossed the threshold fifteen armed Turks barred his way, with the Sultan at their head.
True, they rode and played and swam and romped without restraint, but beneath all of their abandon there lurked the ever-present pathos of the jail, the asylum, the detention ward. The blue sky seemed streaked with the bars of their prison; the green earth clanked as with the sombre tread of feet crossing flagstones.
He then clanked into the inn parlour, and throwing himself into one chair with his feet upon another, he summoned the landlord up before him, and explained our needs in a tone and manner which should give him a due sense of our quality. 'Of your best, and at once, quoth he.
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