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"What makes you think ?" "A man tried to stop me at the door," he answered quickly. "I got in before he could. When he tried the knocker, a bobby came along and stopped him. The latter may have been watching the house since then, it'd be only his duty to keep an eye on it; and Heaven knows we raised a racket, coming head-first down those stairs! Now we are up against it," he added brightly.
"The water-nymph!" echoed Mr. Breynton. "Yes," said Gypsy, dolefully; "right over, head-first into the pond broken to smash!" "Oh, Gypsy! that is too bad." "I know it," interrupted Gypsy; "I know it was terribly careless terribly. Did you ever know anything so exactly like me? The worst of it is, being sorry doesn't help the matter. I wish I could buy you another.
To dive from the beach into this, to fly into the air off racing feet, turn in mid- flight so that heels are up and head is down, and, so to enter the water head-first, requires wisdom of waves, timing of waves, and a trained deftness in entering such unstable depths of water with pretty, unapprehensive, head-first cleavage, while at the same time making the shallowest possible of dives.
And he did come on so fast that in less than a minute, as I waited motionless, and with one hand extended to touch his feet when they came into reach, his face was close to mine, and I shrank back as he said "Here we are, sir. That's you, isn't it?" "Yes, Barney. But you didn't go in feet first?" "No, sir, head-first; and I come out head-first too."
In the end he expressed himself highly satisfied. Some days afterwards, however, Panther, for so we called the horse, behaved in a strange and incomprehensible fashion, and at last became positively fiendish. Shying at a gypsy encampment, he rushed at headlong speed down a zigzagged chalk road, and at last pitched head-first over a declivity.
As the passengers reached the top of the flight they were catapulted head-first into the chamber leading to the tube below. "Well, that is some system for handling people!" exclaimed Seaton. "What's the capacity of the system?" "When running full pressure, six tubes will handle five thousand people a minute. It is only very rarely, on such occasions as this, that they are ever loaded to capacity.
Not only was he a fine, upstanding, broad-minded man; he was a man, no longer in the first flush of youth, who had made himself what he was and who from forty-five vividly recalled twenty-five. He had learned caution, but he had known what it was to plunge head-first into deep waters.
One of the two French destroyers suddenly dived, head-first, into the sea, one of the Emden's submerged torpedoes having dealt her a deathblow. A shell sped over the stern of the Sylph, but did no damage. Then, calmly, almost ignoring. the remaining ships of the allied fleet, the Emden put about, and made off. Her raid had been successful, and it was another victory for the Kaiser.
Anthony Stubbs rose in his place. "Will you permit us to proceed?" he demanded. The man in the road shook his head. "All right," said Stubbs. He climbed to the front seat, and before any one could realize what he was up to, sprang head-first at the Bulgarian. Stubbs' action was so entirely unexpected that for a moment the other occupants of the automobile were stunned.
Accordingly, with a remark which is intended for Love's ear alone, she gropes her way to the cellar door, which is unexpectedly open, pitches head-first into the cavity, and makes the descent of half the stairs in an easy and graceful manner, chiefly with her elbows.
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