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Jimmie Dale stood up, easing his cramped muscles, and flirted the sweat beads from his forehead. After a moment, he knelt again. There was still the inner door but that was a minor matter to Jimmie Dale compared with what had gone before. Stillness once more a long period of it. And then again that cough from above a prolonged paroxysm of it this time that went racketing through the house.
Soon also a racketing began in the corridors; Irving suspected an intention to bait him still further; it was probably Westby once again. He waited until the noise became too great to be ignored—shouting and battering and scuffling; then he went forth to quell it. To his surprise Westby was not engaged in the disturbance—was, in fact, not visible.
The ice rose up at him like a wall; the wind he had not previously been aware of the faintest draught of air cut into his eyes and forehead like fire. His lips blistered under it. He felt death at every dizzy, dwindling second death knotted up and racketing, so imminent that he wouldn't have time to straighten himself out or let go of his toboggan before he would be tossed out into the empty air.
The Master of the Tavern and his Wife, decent bodies both, were wofully frightened at the behaviour of this Desperado; but I was not to be frightened by such Racketing. I bade him put up his Toothpick, giving him at the same time a Back-Hander, which drove him into a Corner, where he crouched, snarling like a Wild-beast, but offering to do me no hurt.
Since the reason could not be explained without going into family history, Soames merely answered: "Racketing about. There's too much of it." "I like that little Mrs. Val; she is very quiet and clever." "I know nothing of her except This thing's new." And Soames took up a creation from the bed. Annette received it from him. "Would you hook me?" she said. Soames hooked.
He did not ask permission to see Dora and Adela. Lord Heddon vehemently preached wild oats. "It's all nonsense, Feverel," he said, "about bringing up a lad out of the common way. He's all the better for a little racketing when he's green feels his bone and muscle learns to know the world. He'll never be a man if he hasn't played at the old game one time in his life, and the earlier the better.
"I'd go with you myself," she declared brightly, "if the misery in my back wasn't a little mite onery this mornin'. Racketing about in that contraption o' yours, I reckon, wouldn't be the best kind of liniment for cricks like mine." So only Mr. Gordon, Betty and Bob started for the fields.
She could see the leading boat as it passed not three hundred yards away, and the next, both spouting flames from their funnels, throwing up water, which fell in silvery, phosphorescent spray racketing, clawing the restless sea, chugging, hissing with shouts of vengeance hurtling from their decks, First ploughed the flag-ship El Toro, next El Teuera, and last the "battleship" El Manuel, sitting almost on her stern, plugging along doggedly in a Herculean effort to be first in at the death of the presumptuous kidnappers.
It seems so strange to come back here from the racketing world and France is a racketing world of its own and find everything in Farlingford just the same."
On the door a large blue and white label says Scarlet Fever. Oh, most excellent municipality of St. Paul. It is because of these little things, and not by rowdying and racketing in public places, that a nation becomes great and free and honoured.
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