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Updated: June 15, 2025
Mastering his troubled breath, he said: I'll take this one. The shopman lifted eyes bleared with old rheum. Sweets of Sin, he said, tapping on it. That's a good one. The lacquey by the door of Dillon's auctionrooms shook his handbell twice again and viewed himself in the chalked mirror of the cabinet.
A majestic figure he made, too, standing in the middle of the roadway with spectacles on nose, and the great handbell tucked under his arm
But the men treat them as if they were the natural enemies of the human race. The expression of these unpopular sentiments appeared to raise me greatly in the estimation of Miss Dunross. "We have one sympathy in common, at any rate," she said. "Now I can amuse you! Prepare for a surprise." She drew her veil over her face as she spoke, and, partially opening the door, rang my handbell.
Another, which went past in the wintry weeks of the early year, was drawn by a team wearing the ancient harness with bells under high hoods, or belfries, bells well attuned, too, and not far inferior to those rung by handbell men. The beat of the three horses' hoofs sounds like the drum that marks time to the chime upon their backs.
She wondered who had put them there; whether it were the old half-breed, Sally, or Jacob Meyer. Also she wondered who had painted the pictures, which were all of African scenery, and something told her that both the flowers and the pictures came from Jacob Meyer. On the little table by her bed was a handbell, which presently she rang.
And without more ado Sir Percy once more rang the handbell, laughing boisterously the while: then suddenly, with quick transition of mood, his laugh was lost in a gigantic yawn, and throwing his long body onto a chair, he stretched out his legs, buried his hands in his pockets, and the next moment was peacefully asleep.
All become elder ones in turn, and are respected." "Well, I mean to be respected all through," Beth declared, and set her mouth hard on the determination. At eight o'clock Miss Bey rang a big handbell for prayers, and the whole household, including the servants, came trooping into the hall.
As soon as the cavalcade stopped, the sexton advanced, and, ringing a handbell, pronounced the following admonition. "All good people pray heartily unto God for this poor sinner, who is now going to take his death, for whom this great bell doth toll. "You who are condemned to die, repent with lamentable tears.
It might be a harder job this time, but he was in luck in luck, and it must hold. And taking a luxurious pull at his cigar, he rang the handbell. "Bring 'em in here, Mr. Farney. And let me have a cup of China tea as strong as you can make it." "Yes, sir. Will you see the proof of the press report, or will you leave it to me?" "To you." "Yes, sir. It was a good meeting, wasn't it?"
"In that case, monsieur, you and mademoiselle must be my guests at dinner. It is almost the hour, and we will dine here." And without waiting for a reply he seized a small handbell that lay beside him and rang it. In a little the host appeared, and the curé turned to him: "Is dinner, as I ordered it, ready?" "Monsieur!" "Then serve it here, and set the table for four.
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