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One Solomon Nicholas deposed that not long after, Russell and Crouch quarrelling between themselves at a brandy-shop, Russell said to his companion, If you offer to meddle with Nicholas I'll cut the coat off your back, for it's the woman's coat that we knocked down in Lincoln's Inn Fields, and I have as much right to it as you have.
Then, late one evening, the servant knocked at my door to say that a Mr. Smith wished to see me. "'Smith, Smith, I repeated; 'what Smith? didn't he give you a card? "'No, sir, answered the girl; 'he doesn't look the sort that would have a card. He's not a gentleman, sir; but he says you'll know him. She evidently regarded the statement as an aspersion upon myself.
"No," Charlie replied; "but then you see that is not my way. I should have cried all night; but then I am not a great, strong fellow like you, and it would not be so hard to be knocked about." "It's no use making excuses, Charlie. I know I ought not to have given way to my temper like that. Now, Lucy dear, as you are feeling better, you must sit up and talk to me. How is mother?"
She ran nearly all the way to Barney Thayer's house; she was afraid of meeting somebody, but she did not. She knocked softly on Barney's door, and heard him coming to open it at once. When he saw her standing there he gave a great start, and did not say anything. Charlotte thought he did not recognize her in the dusk. "It's me, Barney," she said. "I know you," said Barney.
When the brothers got into the carriage again to drive back to the town, the attaché said, "Do you know, Christian Frederick, I can't imagine a position more suitable to such a wreck as myself than that of lighthouse-keeper out here." "There is no reason you should not have it," answered his brother. "Nonsense! How could it be managed?" answered Richard, as he knocked the ashes off his cigar.
Palliser got up and addressed the House for an hour, struggling hard to bring back the real subject, and to make the House understand that the ballot, whether good or bad, had been knocked on the head, and that members had no right at the present moment to consider anything but the expediency or inexpediency of so much Reform as Mr. Mildmay presented to them in the present bill.
Wyatt having thus far been successful, hoped that he should have no difficulty in entering the City; but when he knocked at the gate, Lord William Howard, who was there commanding, shouted out: "Avaunt, traitor! Thou shalt not enter in here." In vain the insurgents thundered at the gate. They could by no means force it. Some were slain in making the attempt.
A fresh wound took him in the stomach; streaming with blood, he remained at his post and directed the fight. The three masts of the Surveillante had just fallen, knocked to pieces by balls, the whole rigging of the Quebec at the same moment came down with a run.
"Helen," said the doctor, in a decided tone. "We must have no half measures, my dear; I mean to carry out my plan in its entirety." "Very well, papa," said Helen quietly; and then to herself, "It is only for a few days." "Now, then," said the doctor, "clothes. Ring that bell, Dexter." The boy ran so eagerly to the bell that he knocked over a light chair, and left it on the floor till he had rung.
At that instant Peter heard the footsteps of his guards outside, and, starting to his feet, knocked the leader of the assassins down by a violent blow in his face, exclaiming, "If it is not yet time for you, scoundrel, it is for me." At the same moment the guards entered the room, and the conspirators, panic-stricken by the sight, fell on their knees and begged for pardon.