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Updated: July 9, 2025
At last a young sailor, warm in the Catholic Faith, and impulsive as mariners are prone to be, ascended the pulpit from behind, sprang upon the mechanic, and flung him headlong down the steps. The preacher grappled with his enemy as he fell, and both came rolling to the ground. Neither was much injured, but a tumult ensued. A pistol-shot was fired, and the sailor wounded in the arm.
Swiftly Lucrezia turned and looked downward, but Hermione looked upward towards the bare flank that rose behind the cottage. "It's Sebastiano, signora." The ceramella droned on, moving slowly with its player on the hidden path beneath the olive-trees. A second pistol-shot rang out sharply. "Go down and meet him, Lucrezia." "May I may I, really, signora?" "Yes; go quickly."
This quarrel was the saving of us; for while it was still raging, another sound came from the top of the hill on the side of the hamlet the tramp of horses galloping. Almost at the same time a pistol-shot, flash, and report came from the hedge side.
But then she had to pack, for Anne exaggerated a slight cold, and at short intervals let off a dry cough with the suddenness and force of a pistol-shot, tied her head up in a white shawl, and begged to be allowed to send to Paris for warm underclothing and her fur cloak.
All the faces were turned the other way; all the crowd pressed forwards against the ropes which the lantern-bearers drew taut to fence off the course. A pistol-shot cracked out. Someone cried, "They're off!" and a murmur grew and rolled nearer rising, as it approached, from a murmur into great waves waves of Homeric laughter. The race went by, and a stranger race Tilda had never beheld.
Then, without speaking, she covered her face with her hands. The room seemed to be full of silence a heavy terrible silence, charged with calamity. At last, unable to endure the burden of the intense quiet any longer, Kitty stirred restlessly. The tiny noise of her movement sounded almost like a pistol-shot in that profound stillness.
"A pistol-shot!" exclaimed Topham; "here might have been a second Sir Edmondsbury Godfrey's matter. Oh, thou real spawn of the red old dragon! for he too would have resisted the House's warrant, had we not taken him something at unawares. Master Bridgenorth, you are a judicious magistrate, and a worthy servant of the state I would we had many such sound Protestant justices.
Then suddenly he gave one cry, "Allah!" a vibrant clack like a pistol-shot, for he saw Yusef, the drunken ghaffir, coming down the road. Yusef heard that cry of "Allah!" and he knew that the hour had come for settling old scores. The hashish clouds lifted from his brain, and he gripped his naboot of the hard wood of the dom-palm, and, with a cry like a wolf, came on.
I would have preferred to take a part in the chase, but I swallowed my disappointment and returned along the balcony. The pistol-shot had raised some clamor in the neighborhood. I could hear men shouting, and several lights were moving in the opposite house. I climbed through the window into the room, where I found Monsieur and Madame Ragoul and their three servants all in a state of excitement.
Every one objects to the plan which is proposed by another, and yet no one proposes anything that is not full of dangers." "For my part," said Charnock, who had hitherto scarcely spoken at all "for my part, if you were to ask my opinion, I should say, Let us walk in we are here eleven or twelve in all; twelve, I think and just quietly make a circle round, and give them a pistol-shot or two.
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