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That was not the only short prayer sent up, but within five minutes both youngsters had fallen sound asleep. The man who can sleep as they did, when the head touches the pillow, has many successes still ahead of him! Nor did they worry about not waking in season in the morning. Slim Morris had promised to see to it that they were awake on time. Slam! Bump!
She dropped her veil and drew on her gloves slowly, and as she did so a rapid step ascended to the front door, there came the click of a latch-key, the slam of the street door as it closed, and then, with an imperative knock which awaited no answer, a young man rushed into the room and shouted, 'Done at last! There was triumph in this young man's eyes, and the flush of triumph on his cheek.
He lifted his hat automatically. The door closed with an echoing slam. He turned to the waiting cab, fumbling for change. "I'll walk," he told the cabby, paying him off. The hansom swept away to a tune of hammering hoofs; and quiet rested upon the street as Kirkwood turned the nearest corner, in an unpleasant temper, puzzled and discontented.
He gained the entrance hallway where all was dark, leaped for the front door, opened it, pulled it shut with a violent slam and, whirling instantly, running swiftly and silently back along the hall, he reached the rear door that he had left unfastened, darted out, and a moment later, swinging himself over a high, backyard fence, dropped down into the lane beyond.
He licks across the shoulders, an' it would slam like a beastly barn-door," said Beetle. "Good-night, Padre. We're in for it." Once more they stood in the presence of the Head Belial, Mammon, and Lucifer. But they had to deal with a man more subtle than them all. Mr. Prout had talked to him, heavily and sadly, for half an hour; and the Head had seen all that was hidden from the house-master.
One affected hand has raised a double lorgnette through which he peers at her. He muses, strokes a long nostril with his forefinger, recollects something which causes him to curl his lip: Henriette's door slam on the obscure Maximilian Robespierre finds its re-echo to day at the gates of Death. Ah, yes, he has placed the girl of the Faubourg lodging now!
Under cover of it his grandfather gave him a few words of compassionate counsel. "You'll have to swing in with the new deal, bub. You can't cut party sirloin too close to the horn, and that's what Vard did. He wants to sit on the mountain and slam us flat under a rock with the new ten commandments on it. We can't stand for it. I didn't dream that he had grown to be so impractical in his old age.
Wilson," he said. "I'll take that feller by the handle on his face and bust him ag'in' a tree like a gourd," Taterleg said, not in boasting manner, but in the even and untroubled way of a man stating a fact. "If there was any tree." "I'll slam him ag'in' a rock; I'll bust him like a oyster." "I think we'd better go to bed without a fight, if we can."
She went out, and gave the door a loud slam behind her. But David Marshall, back again in the bay-window, was thinking neither of the sinuosities of Mother Van Horn, nor of the aggressions of his junior partner, nor even of the just-concluding courses of the annual game-dinner. "Well, here goes!" said Jane, half aloud, with her foot on the lowest of the glistening granite steps.
If I knowed the country I'd cache myself alongside some good open spot, wait till they got into the middle of it, and then slam loose. With two men that savvy their guns any one that got away would sure have a pull with Providence and be workin' it awful hard." "Sandy would do that in a minute; but I think Tom doesn't want any more trouble if he can help it." "He may get it shoved onto him.
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