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When the dawn came I saw he was as dead as a doornail and all puffed up and purple. My three eggs and the bones were lying in the middle of the canoe, and the keg of water and some coffee and biscuits wrapped in a Cape Argus by his feet, and a tin of methylated spirit underneath him.
Away flew the pack, and Ephraim bent over the man, gently turning him over, and crying in fresh dismay: "It's Marty! George Cromarty, of all men, dead as a doornail!" Alas! Ephraim's home-coming was proving anything but the delight he had anticipated.
"Aint nothing more to do," was the response; "the varmints are travelling faster than this horse can go, though he was one of their animals." "How was that?" "I got it in the neck that is my critter did. I had one of them pretty well pinned, when he fired from under his horse's belly and my pony went down, as dead as a doornail.
A loud crack was heard, and she was seen to spring up and fall back upon the snow, dead as a doornail. Like an echo another crack followed a wild scream rang through the air, and the great white owl fell fluttering to the earth. The reports were not of a rifle. They were the louder detonations of a shot-gun.
Why, regarded as a workman, you're as lifeless as a doornail, while, seeing that you weren't born to be a master, you'll all your life continue chattering in corners, like a plummet swinging at the end of a string! Yes, and that was true enough." Lastly, after another pause the Morduine concluded: "No matter. He is not such a bad sort."
When the dawn came I saw he was as dead as a doornail and all puffed up and purple. My three eggs and the bones were lying in the middle of the canoe, and the keg of water and some coffee and biscuits wrapped in a Cape Argus by his feet, and a tin of methylated spirit underneath him.
Its story turned upon the marriage of the elderly Lord Brumpton to a designing young minx who estranges the nobleman from his son, Lord Hardy, the gentlemanly, poverty-stricken leading man of the piece. When Brumpton has a cataleptic fit, and is apparently dead as a doornail, the spouse confides his body to the undertaker with feelings of serene pleasure.
He had been a great King but he was deader than a doornail now. "So his four children took up his work. "Up and down the south country wandered Southwind, with her rosebud mouth and golden hair. And wherever she went she scattered posies and violets upon the earth. "Back and forth over her country floated Westwind with her soft smile and gentle voice.
"George," said Smithson at last, "the late George Vanderpoop " "Late!" exclaimed the warrior; "is he dead?" "As a doornail," replied Smithson sadly. "Perhaps you would care to hear the story. It is sad, but interesting. You may recollect that, when you sailed, he was starting his journalistic career. For a young writer he had done remarkably well.
Holt looked long at the man. "He's deader 'an a doornail," she said. "You stay where you are!" Kate picked her up by the shoulders, set her to one side, ran from the room and down the street as fast as possible. She found the doctor in his office with two patients. She had no time to think or temporize. "Get your case and come to our house quick, doctor," she cried.
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