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And as I sit by the light leaping blaze in my chamber, the scattered hail-drops beat upon my window, like the tappings of an OLD MAN'S cane. What is Gone. Gone! Did it ever strike you, my reader, how much meaning lies in that little monosyllable gone? Say it to yourself at nightfall, when the sun has sunk under the hills, and the crickets chirp, "gone."
Margaret and I, followed by Louis, Wada, and the steward, walked about from place to place, wherever the sounds arose of tappings and of cold- chisels against iron. The tappings seemed to come from everywhere; but we concluded that the concentration necessary on any spot to make an opening large enough for a man's body would inevitably draw our attention to that spot.
This is never done until the trees have been worked one season, but it is then repeated year after year, till on many plantations they present the marks of twenty and frequently thirty annual 'tappings, and are often denuded of bark for a distance of thirty feet from the ground.
And then it came again a low sound, the sound of a stealthy footstep just outside the window that faced on the storage yard. A minute passed another. The automatic at Jimmie Dale's hip, the muzzle just peeping over the table top, held a steady bead on the window. Came the footstep again and then suddenly, a series of low, quick tappings upon the windowpane.
Pott, let me entreat you, my dear ma'am, to compose yourself, said Mr. Winkle; but the shrieks and tappings were louder, and more frequent than ever. 'My dear, said Mr. Pott, 'I'm very sorry. If you won't consider your own health, consider me, my dear. We shall have a crowd round the house. But the more strenuously Mr. Pott entreated, the more vehemently the screams poured forth.
In what form it would come whether it would be vague moanings and tappings upon the windows, such as they had already experienced, whether it would be a phantasmal storm, a clap of phenomenal thunder they could not conjecture, if the enemy would attack suddenly, or if his menace would grow, threatening from afar off, and then gradually penetrating into the heart of the garrison.
Helmuth mentions an ovarian cyst from which, in 12 tappings, 559 pounds of fluid were withdrawn. Delivery was effected by instrumental aid. The tumor of 70 pounds was removed and death followed. McGillicuddy mentions a case of ovarian cyst containing 132 pounds of fluid.
A bland but heavy heat came down through the willow tops, so that the brown duck sometimes panted at her task, and sat with open bill, or with wings half raised from the eggs. Then, one night, she heard faint tappings and peepings beneath her. Sturdy young bills began chipping at the inside of the shells, speedily breaking them.
Lambert went on: "After that he came every night, and soon the tappings began, and finally we got into communication with my father, who told us to be patient and wait and Waltie would speak to us. Then the power took hold of Viola and frightened her almost into fits." The girl visibly shuddered and her eyes fell. "How did it begin?" asked Kate, breathless with interest.
Darling, who isn't thoroughly strong and well, seems to have been very little affected." "Mrs. Darling has been three years out here and is accustomed to frontier life. Mrs. Davies, probably, never had such an experience before, and she has been worried by these queer incidents that Mrs. Leonard tells us of, those midnight whistlings and tappings at her window. Mrs.
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