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"There is a window at the back where we can get in, so the landlord says," said Lester, as they stood before the hall door. "Window?" said Meagle. "Nonsense. Let's do the thing properly. Where's the knocker?" He felt for it in the darkness and gave a thundering rat-tat-tat at the door. "Don't play the fool," said Barnes crossly.
To the doughboy or medic or engineer who stood there at bay those three invincible days, Bolsheozerki means deep snow, bitter cold, cheerless tents, whiz-bangs, high explosive, shrap, rat-tat-tat interminable, roar and crash, and zipp and pop of explosive bullet, with catch-as-catch-can at eats, arms lugged off with cases of ammunition, constant tension, that all ended up with luck to the plucky.
My companion nodded and proceeded to tell me certain amazing facts which the riotous riveting-hammers promptly censored in the following remarkable fashion. "You should have seen the rat-tat-tat. We built her in exactly nineteen months instead of two years and a half!
And just as he was telling himself that, there came to the door a loud knock, the peculiar rat-tat-tat of a telegraph boy. But before he had time to get across the room, let alone to the front door, Ellen had rushed through the room, clad only in a petticoat and shawl. "I'll go," she cried breathlessly. "I'll go, Bunting; don't you trouble."
His rat-tat-tat brought to the door a thin yellow face, cautious in espial, through the narrow opening. "Is it you, sir?" "All right, Mrs. Hopper! How are you? how are you?" He threw his bag into the passage, and cordially grasped the woman's hands. "Dinner ready? Savagely hungry. Give me three minutes, and serve."
Young as I was, I could not help observing all this, and noting, as the commander had pointed out to me, how, thanks to a rigid discipline and the inexorable regularity, almost like that of a machine, with which the routine of duty is conducted on board a man-of-war, every officer and man, from the captain down to the smallest "powder-monkey," was in his proper place and at his station before the rat-tat-tat of the drum had ceased reverberating fore and aft; albeit, most of the hands had only recently joined the ship, while some, indeed, had never before been to sea.
And in the midst of these phantasmagoria, which composed what Frank fondly styled, "making up his mind," there came a single man's elegant rat-tat-tat at the street door. "One never has a moment for thinking," cried Frank, and he called out to his valet, "Not at home." But it was too late. Lord Spendquick was in the hall, and presently within the room.
The second year of respite was at an end; nothing now could stay the anger of the King. Suddenly there came a vigorous rat-tat-tat on the door. "I am lost," murmured the poor merchant to himself. "The King's soldiers are already at the door." And advancing unsteadily across the room, he threw the door open wide.
I tried to express my gratitude. But he sighed and wished me good night, bidding me get some rest. I had scarce finished my breakfast the next morning when I heard a loud rat-tat-tat upon the street door-surely the footman of some person of consequence.
Several men, no doubt. Inez called out in a whisper, "Who is there?" "Go back," her husband ordered. "It's all right, dear. They're friends of mine." Inez came out quickly and stood beside him, looking up into his face. "You're sure? There's no no danger?" Again the rat-tat-tat upon the panel, more peremptory than before. Stanley forced a laugh. "Danger! Why, of course not. Just a business talk.
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