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However, there was no help for it, and he had just time to pocket the bag when Watchorn's half-drunken cheer, and the reverberating cracks of ponderous whips on either side of the Dean, announced the approach of the pack. 'He-leu in there! cried Watchorn to the hounds. ''Ord, dommee, but it's slippy, said he to himself. 'Have at him. Plunderer, good dog!
Mother av Hivin! but I made that horse walk, an' we came into the Colonel's compound as the divil wint through Athlone in standin' leps. There was no one there excipt the servints, an' I wint round to the back an' found the girl's ayah. "Ye black brazen Jezebel," sez I, "sellin' your masther's honour for five rupees pack up all the Miss Sahib's kit an' look slippy!
Graham had already become familiar with the phonotype writing and these inscriptions arrested him, being to his sense for the most part almost incredible blasphemy. Among the less offensive were "Salvation on the First Floor and turn to the Right." "Put your Money on your Maker." "The Sharpest Conversion in London, Expert Operators! Look Slippy!"
I want to pull off a stunt that'll make the whole bunch of bulls sit up and bellow for fair and I can do it, easy as easy. Think I've croaked, do they? And they can all snooze on their peg-posts, now I'm a stiff? Well, by cripes, I just want half of a half of a chance, and I'll show 'em Slippy McGee's good and plenty alive!"
In doing which she lost her temper, or mislaid it for an instant; for, the water being uncomfortably cold, and in that slippy, slushy, sleety sort of state wherein it seems to penetrate through every kind of substance, patten rings included had laid hold of Mrs. Peerybingle's toes, and even splashed her legs. Besides, the kettle was aggravating and obstinate.
The constant clicking of pattens on the slippy and uneven pavement, and the rustling of umbrellas, as the wind blows against the shop-windows, bear testimony to the inclemency of the night; and the policeman, with his oilskin cape buttoned closely round him, seems as he holds his hat on his head, and turns round to avoid the gust of wind and rain which drives against him at the street-corner, to be very far from congratulating himself on the prospect before him.
"So do ants when they get in the sugar-box," rejoined Prudy. As night approached, Dotty showed symptoms of croup. "I think," said her grandmother, "it will be the safest way to give her some castor-oil and molasses; that is what her father used to take when he was a little boy." Dotty pouted. "Dirty, slippy castor-oil," she cried, shaking her elbows a thing she seldom did now.
Armed now with nothing more nor less formidable than the black rosary upon which my hand shut tightly, I, Armand De Rancé, priest and gentleman, walked forth with Slippy McGee in those hours when deep sleep falls upon the spirit of man, for to aid and encourage and abet and assist and connive at, nothing more nor less than burglary.
Motto, 'In Hoc Signo Vinces. There'll be no sign of the cyanide jar. I'll have nothing sinister shadowing; the Butterfly Man's escutcheon!" She knew nothing about the trust St. Stanislaus kept; she had never met Slippy McGee. Laurence at last hung out that shingle which was to tingle Appleboro into step with the Time-spirit.
Stanislaus, Slippy McGee himself was hidden in John Flint. Recoiling, I clung to the altar railing. What dreadful thing was I contemplating, what fearful temptation was assailing me, here under the light of the sanctuary lamp? I looked reproachfully at St. Stanislaus, as if that seraphic youth had betrayed my confidence.
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