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There is left to our eyes but a poor vestige of the picturesque view presented to those who looked down the rue Royale before the garish day that changed the rue Enghien into Ingine street, and dropped the 'e' from Royale.
"There's nothin' to do now until midnight, whin the watch in the ingine room is changed," Mr. Reardon suggested, "so lave us go to the galley. Wan av me brave lads is in there, an' if he's not dead intirely, faith, I'm thinkin' I might injoy a cup av coffee!" So they went to the galley and found the look-out glaring at them. He made inarticulate noises behind his gag, so Mr.
It being Ralph's first experience afloat, the swift, gliding motion and the noisy engine interested him greatly. The novelty was, in its way, as exciting as his first car ride. "What is it makes things go?" he asked of Bludson, who was sprawled upon a coil of cable, smoking a short black pipe. "The ingine and the propeller, ye lubber," replied the latter. "Did 'e think it was wings?"
Why, 'sblood, man, Joannes Barclaius thought my ingine was in some measure inspiration, and terms his history of the plot, Series patefacti divinitus parricidii; and Spondanus, in like manner, saith of us, Divinitus evasit."
An' it was Swope's barn and I run in an' opened the door, didn't stop to knock or nung, an' I hollered out: 'Yib barn's afire! an' he run out in his sockfeet, an' he says: 'My Lord! he says. 'Linc, he says, 'run git the ingine an' I putt." Linc drew in a long, tremulous breath like a man that has looked on sorrow. "Why 'n't you " "Betchy 't was tramps," interrupted a bystander.
Lieutenant-General Sir George Griffin, K.C.B., was about seventy-five years old when he left this life, and the East Ingine army, of which he was a distinguished ornyment.
Throughout the entire operation he was as silent as a burglar, although by way of additional precaution the captain stood by with drawn pistol. "Now thin, Michael," Mr. Reardon whispered as they pussy-footed away, "there are six fine Germans below in the ingine room, an' two Irishmen an' half an Englishman on deck.
"I ain't a-beggin' yer fur no gol' an' silver wheels fur de passenger trains for de saints, 'caze yer know de passenger kyars wha' ride inter de city o' de King, dey 'bleege ter have gol' and silver wheels ter match de golden streets; but, I say, I ain't axin' yer fur no gol' an' silver wheels to-day, nur no kindlin'! De train is all made up an' de ingine is a steamin', an' de b'ilers is full.
"But this is a matter of the utmost urgency," argued Jack. "Listen." He rapidly detailed the outlines of their situation to the agent. The man was obdurate, however. "Couldn't nobody touch that ingine but old man Stetson himself." "How about his son?" Ralph's voice rang out clearly above the excited tones of the others. "Waal, I reckon he could, but he ain't here."
We was both throw'd a good way from the ingine, but I couldn't rightly say where. You'll not refuse " "My dear Marrot," said Edwin, interrupting him, and grasping his hand, "you may rely on me. I shall not leave the ground until he is found and cared for."
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