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We breakfasted by candle-light, and rode away on a frosty foggy morning, keeping our groom fifty yards to the rear, a laughable sight, with both his coat-pockets bulging, a couple of Riversley turnover pasties in one, and a bottle of champagne in the other, for our lunch on the road. Now and then, when near him, we galloped for the fun of seeing him nurse the bottle-pocket.
You must come with us." He had tossed away his hat, and thrust his hands which were shaking, into his coat-pockets. He turned with excitement upon her, but she went firmly on. "With Alick and me. You are too good for the post you hold; with your degrees you can easily get a better one. Come to Paris.
Now they were skimming along a road which skirted the margin of a canal, the one with hands in his coat-pockets, the other with his arms crossed, and both steering with their feet; now passing under a railway-arch, and giving a wild shout, partly to rouse the slumbering echoes that lodged there, and partly to rouse the spirit of a small dog which chanced to be passing under it in both cases successfully!
He was checked in the utterance of a ferocious oath, for at that moment he encountered the grave eye of Number 666. Relaxing his fists he thrust them into his coat-pockets, and, with a subdued air, staggered out of the house. "My 'usband, sir," said Mrs Frog, in answer to her visitor's inquiring glance. "Oh! is that his usual mode of returning home?"
Him and Ginger turned and crept up behind the old man on tiptoe, and then all of a sudden he tilted Sam's cap over 'is eyes and flung his arms round 'im, while Ginger felt in 'is coat-pockets and took out a leather purse chock full o' money.
But in this they were doomed to sad disappointment. Their punk-wood tinder had been so dampened by the snow sifting into their coat-pockets, where they had deposited it, that it could not be made to catch the sparks of the smitten steel.
As he paced the length of the board sidewalk, which helped itself over the ups and downs of the ungraded thoroughfare by means of short, erratic flights of steps at certain points, he distinctly heard footsteps following. They sounded plainly on the plank walk, and he did not for a moment doubt whose they were. His hands were in his coat-pockets. On the little finger of his left hand was the ring.
It hangs on that peg opposite to us." He moved toward it a few steps into the middle of the room while he spoke. "Stop!" said Sam; "I'll get your hat for you. We'll see if there's anything inside it or not, before you put it on." The doctor stood stockstill, like a soldier at the word, Halt. "And I'll get the handcuffs," said the other runner, searching his coat-pockets.
The small maid, blushing with pleasure, left the room, both arms full of feminine apparel; Selwyn rang for tea, then strolled back to the window, where he stood with both hands thrust into his coat-pockets, staring out at the sunset. A primrose light bathed the city.
The ship slackened her sails, and I came up with her, between five and six in the evening, September twenty-sixth; but my heart leaped within me to see her English colors. I put my cows and sheep into my coat-pockets, and got on board with all my little cargo of provisions. The vessel was an English merchantman returning from Japan by the North and South Seas; the captain, Mr.
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