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The monotonous patter of the rain-drops upon the wet pavement or muddy roads, blending with the low whining of the wind and the steady rumble of the coach-wheels, seemed to make a kind of witch-chant, that wove with braided sound a weird spell about me, a charm fating me for some service, I knew not what.
He was sufficiently acquainted with the world to know that the noise of his coach-wheels would silence the jeers of those who knew his former life. These thoughts fermented in Louis's brain as he journeyed from Pau to Paris.
At midnight he sate in his room, which adjoined his Grace's study, and in which he was ever within call. "'Tis a thing perhaps none but a woman could understand," he said to himself in quiet thought. The clock began to strike twelve. One two three four five six But the rest he did not hear. The coach-wheels were to be heard rolling into the courtyard. His Grace was returning. Mr.
"Parbleu! that was why I drew him from the wheels, because he knocked him there," said my preserver. "I don't believe there's harm in the boy. What meant you, lad?" "I meant no harm," I said, and turned sullenly off up the street. This, then, was what I had come to Paris for to be denied entrance to the house, thrown under the coach-wheels, and threatened with a drubbing from the lackeys!
By waiting on Providence or turning coach-wheels? 'I had some then; and Froggy sometimes gives one half a crown, but the old beast hasn't lately, just because I wanted it nor Travis either, bad luck to him! quoth this grateful young man. 'I put them all off, making sure of him; and now he's cut and never tipped me at all! It's an abominable sell, and they are all at me. 'All! what more?
Aulaire, staggering forward a few steps, fell, wounded in the groin. Calvert was untouched, but before he could collect himself or move to the assistance of St. Aulaire, he suddenly heard the sound of coach-wheels passing close to the allée, and, at the same instant, to his astonishment, he felt a sharp pain tear its way from his left shoulder to the wrist.
Having dressed and adorned myself for the sacrifice, I returned to the parlor, when the rumbling of coach-wheels, the sudden letting down of steps, and then a frightfully discordant ring of the doorbell, sent the blood from my cheeks and made my heart palpitate like a trip-hammer. "Is th-th-that the off-officer, I mean the coachman?" I stammered. Yes, there was no doubt about it.
A dull sense of awe and mystery clung to the night, and clung to her watching face, and clung even then to that closed room up stairs where the lilies were fading. Mother sat leaning her head upon her hand, the outline of her face dim in the dusk against the falling curtain. She was sitting so when we heard the first rumble of the distant coach-wheels.
The peacocks trailed their trains between the coach-wheels, announcing, squawkingly, their delight at the advent of a larger audience.
Now roll the coach-wheels to the muster Now round my muse her votaries cluster; Spruce Abbe Millefleurs Baron Herman The English Lord, who don't know German, But all uncommonly well read From matchless A to deathless Z! Sneaks in the corner, shy and small, A thing which men the husband call! While every fop with flattery fires her, Swears with what passion he admires her.
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