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Hoots and yells assailed him, fists were shaken at him, canes were brandished menacingly. "Assassin! Scoundrel! Coward! Traitor!" But he braved the storm, smiling upon them his ineffable contempt. He was waiting for the noise to cease; waiting to address them in his turn. But he waited in vain, as he very soon perceived. The contempt he did not trouble to dissemble served but to goad them on.
The house was accordingly decorated with idols on all sides, and the four priests began their work. The noise in the house was almost unbearable, and thus it continued for twenty-four hours, after which time the priests announced young Hsü to be out of danger, as the evil spirits had taken their departure.
We afterwards learnt that he had drowned him in the pond. 'Great God, how horrible! 'There now, you must not say anything against the habits and customs of the place. I will bid you good morneen. Taking his rod and line the sleek desperado made his way up the stream; and our hero was left to horrible recollections. There was a noise among the parched leaves, and a moving of boughs.
Shouldering their rifles or their spades, they trudged on grimly through two feet of water, and the boots which they wore without socks squelched at every step with a loud, sucking noise "like a German drinking soup," said an officer who preceded me. "Why grouse?" he said, presently. "It's better than Brighton!"
The fortieth night, as they were in bed together, she, believing he was really asleep, arose without making any noise; but he was awake, and perceiving she had some design upon him watched all her motions.
He carried to excess, as so many do at eighteen, all the vices and all the virtues of his day. It will be easily understood how proud he was to serve as second to men like Lafare and Fargy in a meeting which was likely to "make a noise." As soon as Lafare, Fargy, and Ravanne saw their adversaries appear at the corner of the path, they walked to meet them.
I ought to have paid rather than have taken payment for working on the column. By the time Fermin came back from Scotland to turn me out, I was a professional. I had learned the art of writing against time. I had learned to ignore noise, which, for a writer in London, is the most valuable quality of all.
We sat up in the bed in turns, and glared into the darkness towards the schoolmistress's room, which was n't more than three yards away; then we would lie back again and shiver. We were having a time. But at last we heard a noise from the young lady's room. We listened all we knew. Miss Ribbone was up and dressing. We could hear her teeth chattering and her knees knocking together.
This market presented a picture of the greatest confusion; the animals stood on all sides between a multitude of trusses of hay and straw, the sellers crying and praising their wares without cessation, and leading the buyers here and there, partly by persuasion and partly by force, who also made no less noise than the former.
Thayer glanced at him, then lowered his eyes. Houston made the additional notation on the confession and went back to his reading: "'When I found the deed box, there was only ten thousand dollars in it instead of the fortune that I had supposed was there. I was about to take it out and stuff it into my pocket, when I heard a noise outside the window.
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