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"Hoist English colors, Captain," said the admiral, quietly; "and bend on our own, ready to go up." The red cross of St. George, the British man-of-war flag, rose slowly to the peak. The stranger was seen to alter her course, and head for the "Franklin." The admiral turned to Captain Greer and nodded. The latter gave an order to a midshipman standing near. Rat-tat rat-tat rat-tat-tat-tat!
As he brought it down with a sharp rat-tat, I half expected to see the door fly open, and disclose some gruesome object glaring out at us. Nothing of the kind took place; the door did not budge, nothing happened. Sydney waited a second or two, then knocked again; another second or two, then another knock. There was still no sign of any notice being taken of our presence. Sydney turned to Mr Holt.
I then heard the loud rat-tat of drums, accompanied by the shrill voices of fifes and flutes, and at the farther end of the Pass, their arms glittering brightly in the silvery moonbeams, appeared a regiment of scarlet-clad soldiers.
That, Sir, was my mood, when on a never-to-be-forgotten afternoon toward the end of April, I sat mooning disconsolately in my private room and a timid rat-tat at the outer door of the apartment roused Theodore from his brutish slumbers.
He WOULD always ignore the fact of there being a back-door to any house, and gave a louder rat-tat than his mistress, Mrs Jamieson. He had three little notes, which he carried in a large basket, in order to impress his mistress with an idea of their great weight, though they might easily have gone into his waistcoat pocket.
Marian had a struggle with herself but she could find nothing to reply to his cold phrases. And an hour or two afterwards Yule left the house without leave-taking. Soon after his departure there was a visitor's rat-tat at the door; it heralded Mrs Goby. In the interview which then took place Marian assisted her mother to bear the vigorous onslaughts of the haberdasher's wife.
Constans by dint of rubbing away some of the verdigris succeeded in making out the inscription. It read: ARCADIA HOUSE RICHARD VAN DUYNE 1803 Actuated by a daring impulse he lifted the knocker and let it fall. The rat-tat sounded hollowly, but there was no response.
"How we ever managed to reach the wall I could never tell, but as we scrambled over it, regardless of man-traps and bruises, and plunged into the heather on the other side, we heard the weird footsteps receding in the direction of the castle, and, ere we had reached home, the rat-tat, tat, rat-tat, tat, had completely died away.
He must have fallen then into dreamless sleep.... What time was it when he was awakened by that delicate 'rat-tat' to see his tutor standing in the door-way with a cup of tea? Was young Lennan all right? Yes, he was perfectly all right would be down directly! It was most frightfully good of Mr. Stormer to come! He really didn't want anything.
I was about to sit down to the first meal in my new abode, when an insinuating rat-tat sounded on the door. I opened it to find the ill-looking young fellow leaning languidly against the door-jamb, a cigarette between his teeth. "What do you wish?" I asked, in my most matter-of-fact manner.
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