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Walker's ample apron made it necessary for Sally to stand quite close to him, and her manner of compressing her lips as she pinned the bib to the collar of his waistcoat he found wholly charming. His heart went pit-a-pat as her fingers, moist from the suds, brushed his chin. She was quite tall; taller than Isabel, who had fixed his standard of a proper height for girls.
And so that night, while Davies and his men were huddling about the little camp-fires in the snow at Dismal River and a wintry blast was whistling through the bare, brown limbs of the cottonwoods, there were sounds of revelry at the big frontier post, spirited music, merry laughter, the rhythmic beat of martial feet in the measures of the dance, the rustle of silk, and the pit-a-pat of dainty slippers.
How she ran! but her legs felt weak, something thumped in her head, and her heart went pit-a-pat. Mr. Grey rode with his head bent, and was looking at the ground. 'Father! father! father! do stop! Nelly called out. But her father did not see or hear, and there was An Ching shouting to her, and she knew that Hung Li might be after her directly. 'Father! father! she wailed.
I doubt not the words were put in the mouth of some sinner, and the moral dwelt on their literal significance. But half-way down the first page sleep must have descended on me: and I woke up to the sound of light footsteps. Pit-a-pat pit-a-pat-a-pit-pat. I lifted my head.
She laid down her needlework; her heart was going pit-a-pat. "Richard, did you ever... I mean have you never thought of ... of taking up your profession again I mean here starting practice here? No, wait a minute! Let me finish. I ... I ... oh, Richard!" Unable to find words, Polly locked her fingers under the tablecloth and hoped she was not going to be so silly as to cry.
Oh, spend all the time with me you can, John!" So it was arranged. "And now, Ellie, you must go downstairs and present me to Mr. Lindsay." "To my father!" For a moment Ellen's face was a compound of expressions. She instantly acquiesced, however, and went down with her brother, her heart, it must be confessed, going very pit-a-pat indeed.
You all know how your heart throbs and beats like a hammer and goes pit-a-pat when you are just expecting to do something important, for instance, to speak a piece or strike a fast ball, or even when you are greatly excited watching somebody else do something, as in the finish of a close race.
My heart went pit-a-pat, but up I marched, Annas and Flora following; and if the big man did not call out my name to another big man, just the copy of him, who stood at the top of the stairs, so loud that I should think it must have been heard over half the house.
"'True, said the shrew-mouse, 'the door has just fallen. I hear nothing! "'Ah, I see, said the old rogue. "And he made for the pile of corn, from which he commenced to take his store for the winter. "'Did you hear anything? asked he. "'I hear the pit-a-pat of my heart. "'Kouick! cried all the mice; 'we shall be able to hoodwink him.
True, her appearance just now had little of this "quality," her walk being in fact somewhat limping and one-sided. But there was good reason for this defect. She had lost one of her high-heeled shoes, that with which she had battered the coach window. In spite of her protest of not caring, Lavinia's heart went pit-a-pat when she entered the hot, frowsy, greasy air of the coffee house.
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