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Updated: June 13, 2025
The cases were very heavy. Gorman and Phillips together could not lift one. It seemed likely that they contained metal of some sort. The cisterns stood exactly where the Queen and Phillips had seen them before. But now they were full instead of being empty. Phillips and then Gorman tapped them one after another. They were all full, up to the very tops.
He led the way to the wireless room, where the operator was making unsuccessful efforts to pick up more messages from the air. Now, at Lord Hastings' direction, he tapped his key. "Scharnhorst! Scharnhorst!" the instrument called through the air. There was no reply, and the call was repeated. "Scharnhorst! Scharnhorst!" A moment later and there was a faint clicking of the Sylph's apparatus.
Tim was already up and off for she had arranged with him to meet the children a little way out of the town, and he had tapped at the door of the van as he passed. There was no one stirring among the queer inhabitants of the fair, as Diana remarked with satisfaction. Everything was perfectly still, and with a sigh the gipsy girl stepped up into the van again and went through to the inner part.
Blake's room, expecting that I should, as the event proved, find him engaged in the very laborious duty of making his toilet. "Come in, Charley," said he, as I tapped gently at the door. "It's only Charley, my darling. Mrs. B. won't mind you." "Not the least in life," responded Mrs.
Sometimes she opened of her own accord to ask some question of him, but generally it was he who, without waiting for her, stooped down to instruct her of what was passing; and sometimes, if she did not notice him, he tapped at the glass to make her open it.
It's old ale, such as we don't brew now-a-days; it's as old as Osborne. We brewed it that autumn and we called it the young squire's ale. I thought to have tapped it on his marriage, but I don't know when that will come to pass, so we've tapped it now in Roger's honour. The old squire had evidently been enjoying the young squire's ale to the verge of prudence.
That is, of course, under ordinary circumstances. But in affairs of this sort, where state's evidence is concerned, we are obliged to lay personal feeling aside. Now from this letter," and Mr. Dingley tapped the little sheet which he held before him, "I gather that the Señora Valencia may have some information concerning this case of ours now going forward.
"We'll see, and then, after that how much Nesselrode pudding do you think you can eat? I tell you, Jewel, we're going to have the time of our lives!" Mr. Evringham struck his hands together with such lively anticipation that the child's spirits rose. "Yes," she responded, "and then after dinner, what?" She gazed at him. The broker tapped his forehead as if knocking at the door of memory.
Darling examined them carefully; they were skeleton leaves, but she was sure they did not come from any tree that grew in England. She crawled about the floor, peering at it with a candle for marks of a strange foot. She rattled the poker up the chimney and tapped the walls.
But when it came to the afternoon's rehearsal, poor Peace could only stare at the ceiling, and open and shut her lips in agony, waiting for the words which would not come, while Miss Peyton impatiently tapped the floor with her slippered toe and frowned angrily at the miserable figure. Finally Peace blurted out, "P'raps if you'd go out of the room, I could say it all right."
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