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There he "sings aloft 'twixt heaven and earth," and if the rope slips, breaks, or is let go, or if the bowline slips, he falls overboard or breaks his neck. This, however, is a thing which never enters into a sailor's calculation. In this manner I tarred down all the head-stays, but found the rigging about the jib-booms, martingale, and spritsail yard, upon which I was afterwards put, the hardest.
"But, sir aren't you a poet and don't you write plays?" "Exactly, and that's why I'm warning you. Ex uno disce omnes, which you may like to know means, we're all tarred with the same brush." "And do you drink too much, sir?" inquired Lavinia with an engaging simplicity. "Gad, not oftener than I can help. But we were talking about falling in love and that has nothing to do with my drinking habits.
"To be always thinking it's themselves as is grouped in the lime-light of another's thoughts!" "You can get away from people, but you can't get away from moths." It was Martha herself, carrying a great paper bag of camphor-balls and a great roll of tarred paper, who announced this truth. Rain was falling in torrents. Even the Poor Boy did not feel like going out.
Hal's answer was to the point. "I was taken for an organiser once," he said, and his hands sought the seat of his ancient bruises. The other laughed. "You got off with a beating? You were lucky. Down in Alabama, not so long ago, they tarred and feathered one of us." Dismay came upon Hal's face; but after a moment he too began to laugh.
"Yes; he's more of a devotee than I am," Frida went on, quite frankly, but not a little surprised at so much freedom in a stranger. "Though we're all of us tarred with the same brush, no doubt. It's a catching complaint, I suppose, respectability." Bertram gazed at her dubiously. A complaint, did she say? Was she serious or joking? He hardly understood her.
What she saw in him but there, she was only a child, just the mind of a child she had, and didn't understand. He'd ha' been tarred and feathered if it'd been known. But old Mick Sarnia said hush, for his wife's sake, and so we hushed, and Sarnia's wife doesn't know even now.
This resolution being carried unanimously, another was immediately proposed whether it were not possible and politic to exterminate Great Britain? upon which sixty-nine members spoke in the affirmative, and only one arose to suggest some doubts, who, as a punishment for his treasonable presumption, was immediately seized by the mob, and tarred and feathered, which punishment being equivalent to the Tarpeian Rock, he was afterwards considered as an outcast from society, and his opinion went for nothing.
If I'm not a white angel, certainly you're not. We're tarred with the same brush. Forget this afternoon, if you like, and I'll forget it. We can go back to where we were before. But only on the promise that you'll be sensible. No cat-scratchings. No mysteries." It was all that the Countess de Santiago could do to bite back the threat which alone could have given her relief.
There was a bench at the end of the path, and we all sat down while Homes examined one by one, the articles which Lestrade had handed to him. "The string is exceedingly interesting," he remarked, holding it up to the light and sniffing at it. "What do you make of this string, Lestrade?" "It has been tarred." "Precisely. It is a piece of tarred twine.
The lights had flickered and gone. Dr. Schermerhorn had returned to his laboratory. I came up the arroyo as he flung the door open and rushed out. He was a grotesque figure, clad in an undershirt and a worn pair of trousers, fastened with an old bit of tarred rope in lieu of his suspenders, which I had been repairing.
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