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Then, like a cowboy shooting up a peaceful camp, a frantic devil would hurtle out of the distance, bellowing, exhaust racketing like a machine gun gone amuck and at these horrid sounds the surreys and buggies would hug the curbstone, and the bicycles scatter to cover, cursing; while children rushed from the sidewalks to drag pet dogs from the street.
She was badly stove in and useless, so I couldn't run out the kedge' this was Greek to me, but I let him go on 'and for the present my hand was too painful even to stow the boom and sails, which were. whipping and racketing about anyhow. There was the rudder, too, to be mended; and we were several miles from the nearest land.
You are not going to shoot me, simply because you can't. Man alive, I've been racketing about the evil places of this world ever since I left Cambridge, and this isn't the first time I've looked down the small end of a pistol. If you'd seen as much shooting as I have, you'd just jump with astonishment at the awful big percentage of men who get missed even by good shots, and at short rise. And you!
After a bit Storm remarked to himself: "The tempest of the children must have spent itself by this. Now is the time to show them who is master here." Whereupon he rose up, pounded the table with his fist, and thundered: "Stop! What's the meaning of all this racketing? I'm going now, and you must go, too, so that I may put out the lights and lock up."
I have waited for you twenty years. Up there, in the snow, my wife and child died. Here, in this bay, you die." There was noise and racketing behind them, but they two heard nothing. The one was alone with his terror, the other with his soul. Once, twice, thrice, the vessel heaved, then went suddenly still. Gaspard understood.
And I wouldn't have him a particle different, not for all the success in the world. You see I have my pride, my snobbery. I am a snob about my husband." The boys came in from school, and the house shook with racketing children. "They don't know what has happened, really, they are too young, thank Heaven!" Alice exclaimed. "And I don't mean they ever shall know ever think they are poor."
I never like to hear people racketing up and down bare stairs, be they never so polished and fine. That comes of my instincts for quiet on my patients' account, I suppose. About the guests we don't need to have any for a year or two, do we?" "Why, Red!" Ellen began to laugh. "I thought you were the most hospitable man in the world." "All in good time," agreed her husband, comfortably.
As he started back, stung with intolerable pain, she lashed in turn the nervous horse, and in another moment the cart and its occupants were racketing down the home road again. "And now we never WILL git no closer to Shandon Waters!" said Johnnie Larabee, regretfully, for the hundredth time. It was ten days later, and Mrs. Larabee and Mrs.
'I wonder if it's true about Miss Mouse coming to have lessons with Miss Ward? That'd mean her being at our house every day. 'We shouldn't see much of her, said Justin, 'we'd be at the vicarage. So we needn't bother about it. It wouldn't interfere with us. 'Bother about it! repeated Archie. 'I think it would be rather nice. I like her. But we'd have to leave off racketing about so, I suppose.
It was not until he was safe in his sleeper, and racketing through the night, that he remembered the meeting with the literary swans and the editor with the shell-rimmed glasses. A telegram would convey his regrets. He was sorry that he could not meet them, but he had on hand a more important matter.
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