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The crowd, however, not understanding, only grinned. "Avanti! Alley! Mouch! Beat it!" continued the officer, waving his arms and hustling those nearest toward the door. The throng obediently fell back. They were a gentle, simple-minded lot, used in the old country to oppression, blackmail and tyranny, and burning with a religious fervor unknown to the pale heterodoxy of the Occident.
Ah, heaven! could anything be a trouble for Monseigneur!" and Madame Patoux, moved to tears by the quiet contentment with which the Cardinal took possession of the two bare, common rooms which were the best she could place at his disposal, hurried away, and hustling Henri and Babette like two little roly- poly balls before her into the kitchen, she told them with much emphasis that there was a saint in the house, a saint fit to be the holy companion of any of those who had their niches up in the Cathedral near the great rose-window, and that if they were good children they would very likely see an angel coming down from heaven to visit him.
It wasn't just HISTORY, like you learn at school, and forget, and never see the use of, anyhow. It was things about men, just like yourself hustling for a living in their way, just as we're hustling in Broadway. Most of it was fighting, and there are mounds scattered about that are the remains of their forts and camps. Roman camps, some of them. He took me to see them.
But in their way they have been just as short-sighted. They carried with them into the new occupations the very same careless habits of national extravagance. They, too, went ahead in a similar hustling fashion.
They took a street car to the railroad station, where Boston Frank purchased tickets to Dixon, one of the prettiest and most hustling cities in western Illinois. Soon they were rolling out of the railroad yards and across the fertile plains and arrived at their destination late in the night.
When the two Prelates, entering Glasgow Cathedral, quarrel about precedence; march rapidly up, take to hustling one another, twitching one another's rochets, and at last flourishing their crosiers like quarter-staves, it is a great sight for him every way! Not mockery, scorn, bitterness alone; though there is enough of that too.
The females of my collection were in no proper ratio to the number of aspiring lovers; there were five females to twenty males. No matter; there was no rivalry, no hustling; all went peacefully and sooner or later each was satisfied. I should have preferred a better proportioned assembly. Chance, not choice, had given me that at my disposal.
"But look at that white heifer there; she's got another brand a heart with a cross inside of it. What brand is that?" Me and old Mack Lonsbury, we got out of that Little Hide-and-Seek gold mine affair with about $40,000 apiece. I say "old" Mack; but he wasn't old. Forty-one, I should say; but he always seemed old. "Andy," he says to me, "I'm tired of hustling.
Down came Nancy, like a balloon, nearly smothering the two professors, upon whom she alighted. This was too much for Tad Jones, who burst into a shriek of laughter, jumped out, and extinguished the light, and shouted: "Skip, fellows skip!" Frank and Hans lost no time in leaving their places of concealment and hustling out of the room, abandoning the two professors to their fate.
Her tired face was irresistibly lovely as she looked up at the Apache, but by an effort he remained obdurate. "You must walk as long as you can," he insisted. "We have got to hustle today!" "I really don't feel like hustling!" sighed Rhoda. "Rhoda!" cried Kut-le impatiently, "get up and walk after me!
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