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He sat down very straight, said "Ha!" in a strong voice; a short shiver shook his broad frame. He looked over his shoulder uneasily, turned as if to speak to us, but only stared in a curious blind manner, and again looked back. Jackson bellowed out, "Watch well on deck there!" heard a faint answer from above, and reaching out with his foot slammed-to the cabin door. "All right now," he said.
I felt I had carried my pleasantry as far as was safe; I must lose no time in declaring my true character, and I was even choosing the words in which I was to begin, when the hall-door was slammed-to behind me with a bang, and I turned, dropping my stick as I did so, in time and not any more than time to save my life.
So, turning to Mr Bowen, and murmuring, "There is no help for it, I suppose," he signed to the mate to lead the way, and then followed, dejectedly, the doors being smartly slammed-to after them, and the next moment they heard the sound of some heavy body being dragged up to and banged against the companion entrance, thus precluding the possibility of their stealing on deck again, and effecting a counter surprise.
The surprise, added to the weight and force of the charge, was irresistible; the natives were sent flying like ninepins, and before the enemy quite understood what had happened, the whole party were safe in the house, and the door slammed-to and bolted. "See if there are any windows they can get in at."
These last being deposited on the ground, the bearers retired, the door was slammed-to and barred on the outside, and the two adventurous young Englishmen found themselves alone in a cell or dungeon about eight feet square, devoid of every suggestion of furniture, and lighted only by a small aperture, some six inches square, pierced in an outer wall of the building which must have been at least twelve feet thick.
'But you'll deceive us, Gavrila waved back in response. Gerasim looked at him, smiled scornfully, struck himself again on the breast, and slammed-to the door. They all looked at one another in silence. 'What does that mean? Gavrila began. 'He's locked himself in. 'Let him be, Gavrila Andreitch, Stepan advised; 'he'll do it if he's promised.
Then she clasped her hands tightly, raised them to her lips, to her forehead, and suddenly pulling her fingers apart, she pushed back her hair behind her ears, tossed it, and with a sort of determination nodded her head, and slammed-to the window. Three days later she met me in the garden. I was turning away, but she stopped me of herself.
I reckon he remembered the sacred edifice. At any rate he went past John a Hall with a terrific turn of speed, and old Grandison after him: and the next news was the vestry-door slammed-to behind them both, as 'twere with the very wind of wrath. "And my poor mother used to recommend it for the colic!" said Kitty; which puzzled the Doctor worse than ever.
But already the window had slammed-to, and through the dark pane nothing could be seen, no trace of white. Sanin went home without his hat.... He did not even notice that he had lost it. It was quite morning when he fell asleep. And no wonder!
'Ugh, what a low beast that boy is! cried Fustov, as soon as the door had slammed-to. His face was burning, as though from the fire, and he turned away from me. I did not question him, and soon retired. All that day I spent in speculating about Fustov, about Susanna, and about her relations. I had a vague feeling of something like a family drama.
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