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"That'll do, Sonny!" rasped Barret, who was strong on discipline and who fancied he had witnessed the climax of a merry game between boy and dog, "I seen what I seen. And I don't aim to take no back-talk from a wall-eyed, long-legged, chuckle-headed brat; that's hired to help his poor old dad and who spends his time cuttin' monkeyshines with a dorg.
She's an oldish craft, not fit to have her bottom rasped on coral rocks. But we'll soon see." Charlie could not help observing that there was something peculiarly sad in the tone of the old man's voice.
It was the gait of the homely toiling men of the village which his young muscles had caught, as if they had in themselves powers of observation and assimilation. Jerome at twelve walked as if he had held plough-shares, bent over potato hills, and hewn wood in cedar swamps for half a century. Jerome's feet were bare, and his red rasped ankles showed below his hitching trousers.
The boor's little eyes glinted and the boor's rusty fingers rasped at his stubble chin as he answered emphatically: "Then I am a King's man, root and branch." But his face showed less loyal confidence at Brilliana's next words. "Then you must know his Majesty is in straits for ready money. Will you, who are reputed rich, come to his aid with a round sum?"
"You were quite the victim of circumstances, as it were!" Jimmie Dale's eyebrows lifted slightly. "It would appear to be fairly obvious, I should say." "Very clever!" commented the man. "But now suppose we remove the buttons from the foils!" His voice rasped suddenly. "You are quite as well aware as I am that what has happened to-night was not an accident.
He thought of the evening he had spent in the bosom of "Down-by-the-starn" Hemmings' family, receiving his last instructions the security of that suburban villa, its discouraging gentility; the superior acidity of the Miss Hemmings; the noble names of large contractors, of company promoters, of a peer, dragged with the lightness of gun-carriages across the conversation; the autocracy of Hemmings, rasped up here and there, by some domestic contradiction.
Still holding the revolver in his right hand, Laurie slowly reached out his left and seized the other's throat in the grip of his powerful young fingers. "Keep still," he warned, as the other started to raise his hands. "You think the game isn't up, but it is. Now talk, and talk quick." He tightened his grip on the thick, slippery throat. "I'm enjoying this," he rasped.
The Twelfth of July was a beautiful day, clear, sparkling and cloudless. Little wayward breezes frolicked up and down the banks of Moose Creek and rasped the surface of its placid pools, swollen still from the heavy rains of the "First."
Chase for antagonizing his friends, Whistler retorted: "It is commonplace, not to say vulgar, to quarrel with your enemies. Quarrel with your friends! That's the thing to do. Now be good!" "The good Lord made one serious mistake," he rasped to Chase, in Holland. "What?" "When he made Dutchmen." When he had finished his portrait of Mr. Chase he stood off and admired the work. "Beautiful!
Nobody was there and his ears were not of much use because the crash of ice drowned every other sound. This made silence needless, and he tried to get between the logs and the water, but found it dangerous. The chain had sagged with the strain, and the lowest tier was scarcely a foot from the bank, along which the ice-floes rasped.
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