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And now He tries us with fire. But if it come not yonder," pointing to Whitehall, which was immediately above them, for their boat lay close to the King's landing-stage "if, like the contagion, it stays in the east and only the citizens suffer, why, vive la bagatelle! We and our concubines have no part in the punishment. We, who call down the fire, do not suffer it"
She passed close to me, and gave me a side glance and a furtive smile; one of those smiles that drive you mad; then she jumped on the landing-stage. I sprang forward to follow her, but my neighbor laid hold of my arm, I shook myself loose, however, whereupon he seized the skirt of my coat, and pulled me back, exclaiming: "You shall not go!
These lights marked our destination, the men rowing straight to them; and I found, when we came near the precipitous shore which bound the fjord, that there was a rough landing-stage, cut in the rock, and that an iron stairway led thence to the chambers which evidently existed above.
Only once, since the line was started, has a "Cunarder" been kept in port by wind or weather this was the commander's first trip across the Atlantic since his promotion; you may guess which way the balance turned. We waited on the landing-stage one long cold hour.
About four o'clock of the afternoon, the engine slackens its speed, and stops at a landing-stage where awaits us there an old general, around whom sports a flock of young men, with headgear of red képis, breached in red and shod with boots with yellow spurs. The general passes us in review and divides us into two squads; the one for the seminary, the other is directed toward the hospital.
"You see what you'll get." "But we don't want to see what we'll get. You've got such a narrow mind, Albert may I call you Bertie? You seem to think that nobody has any pleasures except vulgar brawls. We are going to row up river, and think beautiful thoughts." Albert was measuring with his eye the distance between the boat and landing-stage. It was not far. A sudden spring....
Fleur rose. "If you don't row, I shall get out and swim." "Really and truly? Then I could come in after you." "Mr. Mont, I'm late and tired; please put me on shore at once." When she stepped out on to the garden landing-stage he rose, and grasping his hair with both hands, looked at her. Fleur smiled. "Don't!" cried the irrepressible Mont. "I know you're going to say: 'Out, damned hair!"
"Tell me again," Hunterleys asked, "at what hour is it to be off the Villa Mimosa?" "At ten o'clock," Frenhofer replied. "A pinnace is to be at the landing-stage of the villa at that time. Mr. Grex, Monsieur Douaille, Herr Selingman, and Mr. Draconmeyer will come on board." "Very good! Now go on your errand to the man Schwann.
The landing-stage was slippery and slimy with rain, soot, and petrol drippings from the motor-cars shipped to and fro. Customs-house officers eyed them with tired suspicion; porters took their money and hastened away with the curtest of acknowledgments; an engine panted sullenly as it waited for never-ending mail-bags to be hauled up from the bowels of the packets and dumped into the mail-van.
His friend began to foresee a time when he should hold him in loathing and horror. And the next morning helped to confirm him in that forecast. For Walker had to make an early start down river for Bonny town, and as he stood on the landing-stage Hatteras came down to him from the Residency. "You heard that negro tried yesterday?" he asked with an assumption of carelessness. "Yes, and condemned.
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