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A rough, hard hand rested upon her breast, and a pair of fierce, cruel eyes struck terror to her soul. She uttered one piercing scream, and fainted. The report of a pistol was heard; then hasty footsteps descended the stair-case; the hall was rapidly traversed the street door was opened and shut with a loud noise and all was still.
"Shot out," said the man, nothing loath to enter into particulars. "In a scrap between a pair of young swells that was hangin' round my place. Shot out in cold blood when I wasn't lookin'." "But, my good man, didn't you prosecute?" asked Mrs. Ivy. "You know we have a Legal Aid Society for just such cases as yours."
To explain what I mean: his boots had evidently seen much service, and had been re-topped, re-heeled, re-soled to the extent of cobbler's powers. Why should he have come in them if they were not his best his only pair? And what can be more ungenteel than poverty?
"Yes, I know it, Mere Malheur," La Corriveau spoke with an air of superiority, "and you say rightly: I have something on hand which I cannot accomplish alone, and I need your help, although I cannot tell you yet how or against whom." "Is it a woman or a man? I will only ask that question, Dame Dodier," said the crone, turning upon her a pair of green, inquisitive eyes.
What a fine man you have grown! Deary me! Well, it seems as though it were only just t'other day like." And she pushed him a little off from her, so that she might look the better into his face. "Well. Is it all right? I suppose you would hardly know me again now I've got a pair of whiskers?" "Know you! I should know you well if I saw but the heel of your foot.
There was, besides, a Scots mason known from his favourite dish as "Irish Stew," three or four nondescript Scots, a fine young Irishman, O'Reilly, and a pair of young men who deserve a special word of condemnation.
The latter, we need hardly say, were the silver ones the pair that he would not let Jack have when he went to Jawleyford Court. So his lordship went capering and careering along, avoiding, of course, all the turnpike-gates, of which he had a mortal aversion. Jawleyford Court was in full dress to receive him everything was full fig.
The two having come of late into a great inheritance in fairyland demanding close personal attention were at one as regarded absence. After dinner Leila said, "My order to report to headquarters from heart-quarters was in the second post-script. I have saved the rest of the letter for you." "Read it, please." "MY DEAR CHILDREN: You are a pair of young ostriches you know what they do.
"They have been on some sort o' a mission," whispered Barringford. "Wonder what's next?" Untying their horses, Pontiac and his companion turned them up the slope leading to the stream above the waterfall. Here the pair consulted for some time. What was said neither White Buffalo nor those with him could make out. But soon Pontiac rode off in one direction and Foot-in-His-Mouth in another.
And in all the great town was there not a pair to be and that would fit him, and it would take a whole day to make him a pair to his measure.
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