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Updated: May 29, 2025
Then Miriam had ventured to interrupt and to ask her about the hanging arrangements, and the child had risen and speaking soft South German had suggested and poked tip-toeing about amongst the thickly-hung garments and shown a motherly solicitude over the disposal of Miriam's things.
We were all in our stockinged feet, some of the men, in fact, not even having stockings on. As the sentinel passed, we crouching in the darkness under the wall, the most agile of our party sprang up behind him. The soldier had taken off his jacket, and tip-toeing behind the sentinel, he threw the garment over his head, tightening it with a twist that almost strangled the man.
Voices of men in the bar-room were audible, and the sufferer imagined that he heard others whispering and tip-toeing in the passage outside his booth. He poured out some absinthe, watching his strange companion all the while, and drank alone and unnoticed.
"I believe those young rascals are up to some of their pranks either that, or I have been having bad dreams. While I'm up I might as well make sure," he decided, tip-toeing to the tent occupied by Tad Butler and Walter Perkins.
This he presently accomplished, and then, after an effort so great that he thought he would be beaten, he succeeded in raising the sash. A minute later he was in the room. His first care was to pull down the thick blinds of blue holland with which the windows were fitted. Then tip-toeing to the door, he noiselessly shot the bolt in the lock.
"But you must come," she insisted, still in a whisper, and took a step or two as if to entice me after her. Then she halted, and, seeing that I made no motion to follow, came tip-toeing back. "If you do not come," she said, "he will kill you! He will sar-tain-ly kill you all!" She nodded vehemently, and so, after another glance to right and left, beckoned to me once again.
Sary said, giggling like a veritable school-girl. Polly watched her depart with the coveted dress over her arm, then she turned to Eleanor. "All the help are going crazy, it seems to me!" About half an hour later, Sary was seen stealing from the kitchen door, and tip-toeing over the brick pathway towards the "Second-best" hammock that always swung behind the lilac bushes.
Patsy was to watch by Sir Shawn for the afternoon and evening: so much had been conceded to him. She was expecting the doctor when another summons came this time it was Sir Felix Conyers, who came tip-toeing along the corridor since she could not go downstairs to him. "I'm terribly sorry for this dreadful accident, Lady O'Gara," he said.
One second more, and, almost as noiselessly, he reached the ground, then quickly raised and turned the ladder, stepped with it to the edge of the roadway, and peered around the angle as though to see that no sentry was in sight, then vanished with his burden around the corner. Another second, and down the steps went Chester, three at a bound, tip-toeing it in pursuit.
But the kind heart of my dear Mis' Amanda Toplady was the dictator. "Now," she whispered, tip-toeing, "we must all go in an' speak to her. Poor woman she don't call anywheres, an' she stays in mournin' so long folks have kind o' dropped off goin' to see her. Let's walk in an' be rill nice to her." Mis' Fire Chief Merriman sat as I had left her, and the tray was before her on my writing-table.
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