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"There!" she exclaimed, "now I shall draw the curtains," suiting the action to the word, "and then, when I lie on this couch, my face will be entirely in the shadow, while from the further window there will come enough light to enable him to recognize you." At this moment a rap was heard at the door. Cora threw herself upon the invalid's couch, and lay back among the pillows.
Their coats were cloth, not brocade or velvet; their ruffles were cambric, not lace; their shoe-buckles were only silver; their hats were trimmed with braid, and neither with gold nor silver edging. They were not my lords; they were not in regimentals; they did not rap out oaths; they had not the university air; they showed no parson's bands; they were not plain country bumpkins what were they?
At last they came to a great wide plain, where neither stock nor stone was to be seen, but only a gallows-tree, upon which one poor wight hung dancing upon nothing at all, and there night caught them again. "Aha!" said Babo to himself. "This time I shall have bread and my master none." But listen to what happened. Up stepped the wise man to the gallows, and gave it a sharp rap with his staff.
Then down we go on the other side, clambering down the rocky stairways till we reach quite a broad plateau that forms something like the shoulder of the mountain. On the brink of this there are many large hemlocks, and we scan them closely and rap upon them with our axe.
A large bird that had been sailing about overhead dropped through the air till it was almost over the surrey, then turned suddenly and darted upward again. "What is that?" cried Nat and Dodo. "That's a Nighthawk don't you remember the bird we heard early one morning in the river woods? He's looking for small birds to eat," answered Rap.
There was such a creaking and groaning and rattling, and such an ominous shaking, throughout the crazy edifice that the loudest rap would have been inaudible to those within. He therefore entered without ceremony, and groped his way to the kitchen. His intrusion even there was unnoticed.
"As far as that goes," smiled Merry, "I presume some people might think it rather singular that we did not cross the pond in a regular liner; but then they might suppose it was a case of economy with us." While they were talking there came a rap on their door which Frank threw open. Just outside stood a young man with a flushed face and distressed appearance.
Then shrill voices would say, "Yes, she did, Sister." Above my head a full warm voice called for silence. And then there would be the rap of a ruler on the desk. It would make an enormous noise down in my hollow.
When I chaffed him gently, and hinted that the stars of a captain were cheaply come by in these days, he had one retort always ready, "Not in the Red Marines." He did not value his office of Chief Detective Inspector a rap beside that temporary rank of Captain of Red Marines. He had, you see, been a private in that proud exclusive Corps, and its glory for him outshone all human glories.
Go around and go up the back stairs and see if that door is open if so, enter the rooms by it and open this," said her ladyship, never ceasing, while she talked, to rap at and shake the door at which she stood. Margaret flew to obey, and made such good haste, that in about two minutes she was heard within the rooms hurrying to open the closed door.
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