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I stood speechless and motionless, while I was informed that it was a common-place trick for gangs of pickpockets to throw unwary passengers down with violence, pretend to pity and give them aid, pick their pockets while helping them up, and then decamp with all possible expedition. But said I, with great simplicity, to my informer, 'Will not the gentleman come back? 'What!
When the proprietor reached Paris, he went to the barriere to claim his mummy. The commis listened to him and stared at him with astonishment. He grew angry, and at length broke out into a violent passion; when one of the searchers, in a whisper, advised him to decamp, if he wished to avoid the gallows.
All at once it struck me that if I really frightened him too much they might decamp without making a clean sweep. I sobered at once. "I'm not crazy," I said. "Sure you're not," said the burglar conciliatingly. "But I assure you " "That's all right." "I'm perfectly sane." "Sane as a house!" "There's nothing to be afraid of." "Course there isn't. Hi, Bill, won't you hurry up there!" "I'll explain "
I never was dead; only shamming. Oh, if I only had a knife." While Gratillet was talking he worked at Albert's cords with his teeth and nails, and finally succeeded in freeing him. "And now," he said, "let's decamp, and that as soon as possible." The two men were soon on the road, the journalist peering about and keeping up a lively conversation.
He is in the patriarchal style; not queer and amusing, as Cardot used to be with Malaga; but he will never decamp like little What's-his-name that lived with Antonia. So I will send round my man to-morrow morning at eight o'clock. . . . You may sleep in peace.
Miss Brandon being very famous, he would marry her, just as he would pay a hundred thousand dollars for a famous racer." "And how do you account for Miss Brandon's refusal?" "By the character of the man, whom I know very well, and whom she knows as well. She is quite aware that, three months after the wedding, he would decamp, and in less than a year she would be divorced.
He stepped cautiously through the sand to the nearest point to the foe, listened awhile, and then smiled and nodded to Lady Carse, and seemed wonderfully delighted. This excited her impatience so much that it seemed to her that the enemy would never decamp. She was obliged to control herself; but by the time she might speak, she was very irritable.
He would say to one of his aides decamp, "Ascertain from the colonel of such a regiment whether he has in his corps a man who has served in the campaigns of Italy or the campaigns of Egypt. Ascertain his name, where he was born, the particulars of his family, and what he has done. Learn his number in the ranks, and to what company he belongs, and furnish me with the information."
Ismenia and the faithless Baron decamp to parts unknown, while Clementina's father starts back to Rome with his recreant daughter. In man's clothes she escapes from her parent to seek revenge upon her lover.
"Well, they might at least have told us where they were going," Frank grumbled. "They should have known Mrs. Irving would be worried." "They probably thought they'd decamp before the mud got so bad," said Betty. "Just the same, they should have told us." "You are right," Mrs. Irving agreed. "However, the only thing to do now is to follow them as quickly as possible."
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