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Mock, still limping and looking woeful, kept out in the open air. "Psst!" came sharply from somewhere, and Mock, turning, saw a man in civilian garb standing in the shadow of a latrine shed. "Come here," called the stranger. Still surly, but urged by curiosity, Mock obeyed the summons.
Whistler divined their several missions with much nicety by the tone of the raps on the door. A loud, business-like bang brought, out this comment: "Psst! That's one and ten." Later came another, not quite so vehement. "Two and six," said Whistler. "Psst!" "What on earth do you mean?" asked Chase. "One pound ten shillings; two pounds six shillings! Vulgar tradesmen with their bills, Colonel.
Delorme is strong himself, not afraid, either, to use the knife. Ah, sir, you should have seen how beautifully he worked right under the fire of the German guns! Psst! if need be he'd have taken a leg off you in five minutes, as neatly as if he had been in a hospital in Paris!" John felt apprehensively for his legs. Both were there, and in good condition.
Apprehending that he had made some mistake in the signal, O'Reilly hastened down the walk. Then at last, to his great relief, he heard a sibilant: "Psst! Psst!" It came from behind a screen of shrubbery, and there he found the Cuban waiting. The latter began rapidly: "Our plans are complete. Listen closely. One week from to-day, at ten o'clock in the morning, you must be in Manin's drug-store.
But the friction never came to a blaze; for the cure was pottering about the tower every day and all day long, and a few words from him would make a quarrel go off in smoke. "Softly, my boys!" he would say; "work smooth and you work fast. The logs in the river run well when they run all the same way. But when two logs cross each other, on the same rock psst! a jam! The whole drive is hung up!
Next, he had to go back to the end of the embrasure, the wider part, where he had left the rope-ladder. After fixing it to the bars, he called Daubrecq: "Psst!... It's all right... Are you ready?" "Yes... coming... One more second, while I listen... All right... They're asleep... give me the ladder." Lupin lowered it and asked: "Must I come down?"
About eleven o'clock he thought he saw someone going to a rick and putting a light to it. 'Just you wait, thought he, and called out to his dogs: 'Hi! Psst, Hush, catch him! But Psst and Hush had not waited for orders, and in five minutes the man was caught. Next morning he was brought bound before the king, who was so pleased with the boy that he gave him a thousand crowns at once.
Except for the barking of a distant dog, the faint wailing of a waltz, the rustle of a roosting bird, and the sound of Plummer saying that if her refusal was due to anything she might have heard about that breach-of-promise case of his a couple of years ago he would like to state that he was more sinned against than sinning and that the girl had absolutely misunderstood him, all was still. "Psst!
"Aw, that's all right," said Denver after listening critically, "she's just getting ready to sing." "Getting ready!" sneered the Professor, "don't you fool yourself dere she'll keep dat going for hours. And in the morning she puts on just one thin white dress and dances barefoot in the garden. I come by dere one time and looked over the vall and, psst, listen, she don't vare no corsets!
And then, placing an arm on the shoulders of his nephew, he conducted him to the triclinium. In the unctorium the two Grecian maidens, the Phrygians, and the two Ethiopians began to put away the vessels with perfumes. But at that moment, and beyond the curtain of the frigidarium, appeared the heads of the balneatores, and a low "Psst!" was heard.
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