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Updated: May 8, 2025
The news of the fighting at Dong was already known; for on the evening of the day of the fight Havelock had sent down a mounted messenger to say the resistance was proving so severe that he begged some more troops might be sent up.
If your people take Dong tomorrow, they will have enough to think of in Cawnpore without troubling about an escaped prisoner. Besides," he added, "if the Rajah's orders are carried out, at daybreak they will not know that a prisoner has escaped; they will not trouble to count." "I cannot believe it possible they will carry out such a butchery, Rujub." "We shall see, sahib.
When they had feasted they saw a ladder set up on the tower, the top of which reached the Moon. King Dong Ming ascended to the Moon on this great ladder. When they reached there they saw many Moon Daughters all dressed in shining black robes, and crowned with flowers.
Dong! Till the rooks and daws whirled clamoring and screaming. Dong! Dong! Till the fierce wolf-hounds in the rocky kennels behind the castle stables howled dismally in answer. Dong! Dong! Dong! Dong!
Dong Ling is having what I suppose are Chinese hysterics in the kitchen; and Pete is swinging back and forth like a pendulum in the dining-room, moaning 'Good Lord, deliver us! at every breath. I would suggest that you follow me down-stairs so that we may be decently ready for whatever comes."
And I put Lizette down the slope; but De Lorgnac called out after me: "He is lost if he does that he will meet the marsh of Brunoy, and must come back keep to the road!" And, ding, dong, we galloped on the white track, white with dust ourselves, our gallant horses kept up by their own matchless courage, and by that alone.
"Er Cyril has the most UNOCCUPIED space," volunteered Bertram, cheerfully. "Indeed!" retaliated Cyril. "Suppose you let me speak for myself! Of course, so far as truck is concerned, I'm not in it with you and Will. But as for the USE I put my rooms to ! Besides, I already have Pete there, and would have Dong Ling probably, if he slept here.
Yorke, for his part, reflected with bitter irony how utterly erroneous had been his primary calculations how Nemesis was hard upon his heels at last in the guise of this relentless youngster, who fought like a college-bred "Charley Mitchell." Ding! dong! hook, jab, uppercut, block, and swing; in and out, back and forth, side-stepping and head-work one long exhausting round.
"But I can't think it's anything like that," he finished, as he turned away. There was very little done in the Beacon Street house that day but to "get ready for Billy." In the kitchen Dong Ling cooked. Everywhere else, except in Cyril's domain, Pete dusted and swept and "puttered" to his heart's content. William did not go to the office at all that day, and Bertram did not touch his brushes.
He not only heard the grass grow, but could hear every man's heart beat, whether in sorrow or in joy. The whole world was to him like a clockmaker's great workshop, in which all the clocks were going "tick, tick," and all the turret clocks striking "ding, dong." It was unbearable. For a long time his ears endured it, but at last all the noise and tumult became too much for one man to bear.
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