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They were saying so in our office only this morning." "Let me think," said Gerald, laying down the last bun on his knee expressly to hold his head in his hands. "Don't you forget to think about my five bob," said the boy. Then there was a silence on the stairs, broken only by the cough of a clerk in That's office, and the clickety-clack of a typewriter in the office of Mr. U. W. Ugli.
The lady stepped into the carriage, the driver woke up his ancient Bucephalus, and went clickety-clack down the König Strasse toward the town. To Carmichael it was less than an incident. He twirled his cane and walked toward the public gardens. Here he strolled about, watching the people, numerous but orderly, with a bright military patch here and there.
Jack nobly tried to distract attention from the car, but before another mile had been traversed, the clickety-clack noise grew too loud to be ignored, the car drew up with a jerk, and the chauffeur leaped out.
The iron bridge guys rattle to the strain of his cough, a mocking phthisical rattle, seeming to say to him: "Clickety-clack! just a little rusty cold, sir but not from our river. Litmus paper all along the banks and nothing but ozone. Clacket-y-clack!"
On the dark hillside he loomed for an instant, as fixed and motionless as an equestrian statue. "What's the trouble?" asked Ralph. "Hush, lad. Do you hear something?" Faintly, very faintly, out of the west came a sound full of sinister significance. Clickety-clack! Clickety-clack! Clickety-clack! "They're after us!" exclaimed Jack, reading the night-borne sounds aright.
So he came to Gravesend and the common lodging-house, and a weary, sad, and very anxious man rose up from his place by the fire when the clickety-clack of the crutch sounded on the threshold. "It's the nipper!" he said; and came very quickly to the door and got his arm round Dickie's shoulders. "The little nipper, so it ain't! I thought you'd got pinched.
"You and Diana walked home from school together and then stood down there in the snow for half an hour more, your tongues going the whole blessed time, clickety-clack. So I don't think you're very badly off to see her again." "But she wants to see me," pleaded Anne. "She has something very important to tell me." "How do you know she has?" "Because she just signaled to me from her window.
As the clickety-clack, clickety-clack, clickety-clack of the wheels vibrated through my couch, I pondered on the ridiculous position of that cautious Eastern bank as to the Fleischmann Brothers' failure; then on the Lattimore & Great Western and Belt Line sale; and finally worked around through the Straits of Sunda, in a suspicious lateen-rigged craft manned by Malays and Portuguese.
Beale stepped in for half a pint at the Railway Hotel, while Dickie went clickety-clack along the pavement to his friend the pawnbroker. "Here we are again," said that tradesman; "come to pawn the rattle?" Dickie laughed. Pawning the rattle seemed suddenly to have become a very old and good joke between them. "Look 'ere, mister," he said; "that chink wot you lent me to get to Gravesend with."
It's powerful enough for worse hills than this." "What's that funny noise? It didn't sound like that before. Kind of a clickety-clack. . . . Don't you hear it?" "No. Of course not. Don't be stupid and imagine things that don't exist. . . . What's the difference between "
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