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She fell down. As she fell, she tried to give the bag the send-off squeeze, but she couldn't move her fingers. She couldn't move anything. There were people around her. They were doing things swiftly. She was turned over on her back and, for a few moments then, she saw her own face smiling down at her from just a few feet away.
We mustered, as a rule, at nine in the morning for the day's work and travel, most of the folk of the town where the night had been spent turning out for the send-off. "The General was on the scene almost invariably to the minute. Nearly always at those starts he looked grave, resigned, and calm, but unexpectedly careworn.
I joined the long line, and taxied over to the starting-point, where the captain was superintending the send-off, and turned into the wind in my turn. As though conscious of his critical eye, my old veteran Spad lifted its tail and gathered flying speed with all the vigor of its youth, and we were soon high above the hangars, climbing to the rendezvous.
Surely even a salute of guns would not have been too much. But no: that is the way England dismisses her sons, without so much as a cheer! He felt ashamed of this cold send-off; ashamed for his countrymen.
With this send-off there ensues a wild chase and a hustle, pell-mell, higgledy-piggledy, each party striving to bowl the piece over the other's goal. These goals are several hundred yards apart. II, p. 433. The squaws assist in the performance by beating drums and keeping up a monotonous chant."
About ten o'clock, as she was copying out some figures for Mr. Price, young Mr. Caldwell approached her. He had a Boston newspaper in his hand. "Have you seen this article about Mr. Ditmar?" he asked. "About Mr. Ditmar? No." "It's quite a send-off for the Colonel," said Caldwell, who was wont at times to use the title facetiously.
We had pickets at the shore end of the wharf, and we kept him quiet and out of sight; the send-off was not noisy, but the hand-grips were very tight and the sympathy deep. He was running away from debt, and wrong, and dishonour, a drunken wife, and other sorrows, and we knew it all. Two went next to try their luck in Western Australia; they were plasterers.
Jude grimly smiled as he recalled how the men and boys gave Marsena and her brood a jeering send-off as the rattling train bore them away soon after Riddall had been laid behind the disused church. So while Marsena was still in Jude's memory, he came upon the deserted and decaying cottage where once Lola Laval had sung her pretty French-Canadian song.
The entire population turned out to see us off and wish us luck, and gave us a very hearty send-off. Speed seemed to be the main concern, the safety of the cargo being quite a secondary consideration.
Webb Atchison brought his hand down upon his victim's shoulder with a resounding friendly blow, calling: "He's right. We've given him a bad two hours of it. Let's make it up to him, and let him have the right sort of send-off since he will go. He will there's no possible question of that. So let's part friends."
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