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Here there was more clapping of hands and exclamations of pleasure, while those who were seated near Ferrari raised their glasses and drank to his health with congratulations, all of which courtesies he acknowledged by a nonchalant, self-satisfied bow.
There was great suspense and quiet while the Judge was being chosen. Although Dot had eaten the berries of understanding, it was generally considered that, to be quite fair, the judge must be able to understand human talk; and, amidst much clapping of wings, a large white Cockatoo was appointed. The Cockatoo lost no time in clambering "into position" on the stump near Dot.
Aldgate!" the leader of the assailants dashed forward, followed by his comrades, and with a rush reached the top of the heap. "Well done!" the young prince exclaimed, clapping his hands. "See how he lays about him with that club of his. There, he has knocked down the leader of the defenders as if his club had been a battle-axe. Well done, young sir, well done! But his followers waver.
"I saw her at the little window over my bed; a kind of reddish light shone round the house; I looked up, and there I saw her old, pale face and glassy eyes looking in, and she rocking herself to and fro, and clapping her little, withered hands, and crying as if her very heart would break."
But the audience took the point immediately, and the clapping of hands and stamping were this time both loud and long. And now something happened which Yellow-cap could not at first understand. The King hummed-and-hah'ed and looked rather embarrassed, but said nothing, and by and by began searching in his pockets as if he had mislaid something.
The applause continued persistently, but, so at least it must have seemed to English ears, lethargically. A few cries were heard. "They are calling for Claude!" Charmian turned round to Susan Fleet. Susan was clapping her hands forcibly. She stood up as if to make her applause more audible. The cries went up again.
You know there have been attacks upon him in the newspapers?" "Has she?" said Glory, recovering herself and looking down again. "Which pew stall, I mean " But the people were clapping their hands and turning their faces to the opposite side of the theatre. Some great personage was entering the royal box.
"Good for you," said Grandfather, "and by the way, Mother, have you told her where she's going to-night?" "Not a word," said Grandmother, smiling. "Goody!" cried Mary Jane, clapping her hands happily, "it's a surprise." "Yes, it is," laughed Grandmother, "you never did it before that's certain.
Again, at another place, one of the sailors who had landed with a few articles designed as presents, found himself treated in the kindest manner. "These guileless people conducted him to the shore, and held him some time in a close embrace, with great love, clapping him fast about, in order to evince their regret at parting." See Varrazano's Letter in Hakluyt, and New York Hist. Collect.
One after another they got up and did the same twisting and posturing, without dancing, and while one posed and contorted the rest unenviously joined the spectators in their clapping and their hoarse cries of "Ole!" It was all perfectly proper except for one high moment of indecency thrown in at the end of each turn, as if to give the house its money's worth.
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