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The further guns recommenced, and then the group heard a new sound, rather like the sound of a worn-out taxi accelerating before changing gear. It grew gradually louder. It grew very loud. It seemed to be ripping the envelope of the air. It seemed as if it would last for ever till it finished with a gigantic and intimidating plop quite near the front of Lechford House.
I ought to have been out last year, but I slipped a cog when I first came and got dropped a form. You see, I made the mistake of thinking that the principal branches were Football, Baseball and Hockey. When I'd woke up to the fact that a little attention to mathematics and languages and such foolishness was required it was too late, and plop! sound of falling!"
The momentary view of the footgear, together with the maddening plop plop it made upon the rock, raised an insane idea within my brain that we were chasing a pair of bewitched shoes that were enticing us into the very heart of the mountain. The scanty diet and the happenings of the two preceding days had left me light-headed. The race was unreal.
"As soon as I saw that man shaking down the big pears I ran at him to try and catch him." "You should ha' took off your cap, young un, and ketched me like a butterfly," growled Ike. "Will you be silent, sir!" Plop! "He struck me, then, in the chest, pa, and knocked me right down in among the bushes." "No, he did not," I exclaimed indignantly; "it was I."
It gave forth a strange plop as she turned it over. "Some sort of liquid," she announced. "Probably seal-oil." With difficulty she untied the strings and opened the sack. Then quickly she pinched her nose. "Whew! What a smell!" "Let's see," said Lucile, dropping the bundle she had just dragged forth. "Yes, it's seal-oil. That's a good find." "Why? We can't use that stuff.
Unless it was for one corpulent old gentleman in a bath-chair, who certainly did start at the sight of us, and afterwards regarded us at intervals with a darkly suspicious eye, and, finally, I believe, said something to his nurse about us, I doubt if a solitary person remarked our sudden appearance among them. Plop! We must have appeared abruptly.
Tony shook his head. "Can't be done," he answered. "It seems that infernal train is the only means of getting up and down from here. You can't motor or drive. There's no road." The out-of-date magazine slid suddenly off Ann's knee and fell with a plop on the floor. "Are you serious?" she asked, still hardly able to believe him. "Do you really mean we we've got to stay the night here?"
He got to his feet and backed away from those eggs, even as Brevoort rose slowly, as though just aware that the eggs were not altogether innocent. The two Mexicans had risen to their knees and rocked back and forth, laughing at the beautiful joke on the Gringoes. Plop! Plop! Plop! and three of the four eggs targeted an accurate twelve o'clock. Pete leaped and kicked viciously.
I only noticed that there was an undercurrent of what is best described as "jumpiness," and that the merest snapping of a twig, or plop of a fish in the lagoon, was sufficient to make us start and look over our shoulders. Pauses were rare in our talk, and the fire was never for one instant allowed to get low.
"Playing cricket makes them take such good aim," I thought to myself, as a piece of clay hit me on the back again; and I worked hard to finish my task so as to get to the pit from which I was fetching the pots down to the grass walk where I was; and I had got to the last pot, when, in stooping to put it in its place, plop came a soft lump of clay on the nape of my neck, and began to slip under my collar.
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