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"Pooh," said he, in his quaint brutality, to the worthy clergyman, who attended his last moments with more zeal than success; "Pooh, what's the difference between gospel and go spell? we agree like a bell and its clapper you're prating while I'm hanging." Dawson died in prison, penitent and in peace. Cowardice, which spoils the honest man, often ameliorates the knave.
I gathered the general sentiment to be that he was acting, if anything, with excess of generosity. Mrs. Reginald Clapper, as I was relieved to know she now was, received my salute to a subdued murmur of applause. She looked to my eyes handsomer than when I had last seen her, or maybe my taste was growing less exacting. She also trusted she might always regard me as a friend.
"Robin at fault!" said Dalton: "you've given me many a comparison, and now I'll lend you one a bell without a clapper; won't that do, Robin?" Robin shook his head. "Ay, Robin! Robin! you're right, after all.
Altogether we must have numbered a score. Breakfast was laid in a large room on the first floor. The wedding presents stood displayed upon a side-table. My own, with my card attached, had not been seen by Mrs. Clapper till that moment. She and her mother lingered, examining it. "Real silver!" I heard the maternal Sellars whisper, "Must have paid a ten pound note for it."
His brain was clear enough now for him to understand that he was ill, and to want to talk about it; but his tongue hung in his throat like a clapper in a bell. He must wait till the rope was pulled... So time and life stole back on him, and his thoughts laboured weakly with dim fears.
Every inch of it was covered with them, and more and more were pouring through the small circular hole in the ceiling whence it emerged, so that with their weight the bell was beginning to sway. Hark! it had swayed till the clapper had touched the bell. The sound was but a tiny one, but the bell was only beginning to sway, and it would increase.
A few jolts of the needle has put a clapper to his eternal moanin'. Go on with your work. Smash the boats. 'Tis nothin' I care. 'Tis well I know my own crooked back is worth more to me than the necks of the scum of the world below there." "If you felt that way, why didn't you join us?" I queried. "Because I like you no better than them an' not half so well.
He would not cry, and this was another spur to the efforts of Mr. Clapper. The boy's flesh twitched and quivered at every blow, yet never a cry came from him. It but served to feed his rebellion, and he struggled and fought with fury until completely exhausted. "There now," declared Mr.
So she made but little progress, and still grew hotter and hotter. She heard the roll of the big drums and the boom of the trombones through the roar of voices and laughter all round her. She saw the campanile of the town hall and the clapper that hung below the great bell, and these last objects were all she could discern above the billows of living humanity that surged about and over her.
All the while, as he swung back the door, his eyes were closely studying the eyes of the other man. Trotter noticed the row of matches stuck in the soiled hatband, and the cotton bag of "Durham" that swung from his sweat-stained belt. "What can I do for you, sister?" was his companionable greeting. Trotter unwrapped his electric bell. "Can you give me a clapper for this?" he asked.
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