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Updated: May 29, 2025
They were just about to sit down when the Mole clambered in through the window, chuckling, with an armful of rifles. "It's all over," he reported. "From what I can make out, as soon as the stoats, who were very nervous and jumpy already, heard the shrieks and the yells and the uproar inside the hall, some of them threw down their rifles and fled.
"I am not," I answered as curtly; the edge of nerves in his manner of questioning doing nothing to soothe my own, "and even if I were I would hardly expect to put all the burden of the present problem upon you by going to sleep." "For God's sake don't be a prima donna," he flared up. "I meant no offense." "I'm sorry, Dick," I said. "We're both a little jumpy, I guess." He nodded; gripped my hand.
"They don't give K. C. B.'s to men in my trade," Samson answered rather gloomily. "They reserve them for you professional butchers." He was feeling jumpy about the treasure, and dreaming of it all night long in a way that did not make the waking fears more comfortable.
As a matter of fact, the actual carrying of the wounded out of the trenches to the comparative safety of the dressing station is usually done by combatants. A man has to live continually under shell-fire to acquire the immunity to fear which passes for courage. The bravest man is likely to get "jumpy," if he only faces up to a bombardment occasionally.
Remorse was gnawing hard at his heart, though he was trying to believe that it was entirely another emotion. He had not slept properly for nights; his head ached, and his nerves were jumpy. "I'll not go till she sends for me," he said again obstinately. Sangster made no comment. He did not see Jimmy again for some days, though he heard of him once or twice from a mutual acquaintance.
"Lord!" he said, "I thought we'd done with that. No, thank you: Egyptian Hall's all I need." Laurie sighed elaborately. "Oh! of course, if you won't face facts, one can't expect...." "Look here, Baxter," said the other almost kindly, "I advise you to give this up. It plays the very devil with nerves, as I told you. Why, you're as jumpy as a cat yourself. And it isn't worth it.
Also the persistence of the Sacks in not being on piers and railway stations was discouraging. There was no eagerness about this persistence; there wasn't even friendliness. Perhaps they didn't like her and Anna-Rose being German. This was always the twins' first thought when anybody wasn't particularly cordial. Their experiences in England had made them a little jumpy.
A stout fellow in both the physical and moral sense of the words, he was a trifle too jumpy for a man of my cloistered and intellectual life, especially as just now I was trying to plan out a new novel, a tricky job demanding complete quiet and seclusion. It had always been my experience that, when Ukridge was around, things began to happen swiftly and violently, rendering meditation impossible.
In a moment, the first eight passengers were assembled into two groups, helped into space suits, with a special portable suit for the little boy, and loaded in the jet boats. The red light over the hatch glowed, then went out. The first load of passengers had left the Lady Venus. "They're pretty jumpy," Roger whispered, nodding toward the remaining passengers. "Yeah," answered Tom.
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