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He has distinguished himself so greatly that we frankly assert that our citizens may point with pride to " Mrs. Flitcroft's voice, at the beginning pitched to a high exultation, had gradually lowered in key and dropped down the scale till it disappeared altogether. "It's a wonder to me," the Colonel began, "that the Tocsin doesn't go and hold Joe Louden's hand."
Sheehan asked, earnestly, leaning forward in his chair, "did it strike ye that the Tocsin was aimin' more to do Happy harm because of you than himself?" "Yes." Joe looked sadly out of the window. "I've thought that over, and it seemed possible that I might do Happy more good by giving his case to some other lawyer." "No, sir!" exclaimed the proprietor of Beaver Beach, loudly.
And then he was aware that, subconsciously, it had seemed to him a most curious coincidence that the letter should be dealing with the robbery of Henry Grenville's safe that night. Yes, certainly, it was a most curious coincidence, when he was even then on his way to the Rat! He shrugged his shoulders in his whimsical way. Well, for once, he had forestalled the Tocsin!
Now and then I went out on the balcony and strained my ears to listen, then I entered the room again and paced to and fro, or dropped into an arm-chair and dozed. But my slumber was agitated by feverish dreams. I dreamed that I could hear the murmur of angry crowds, and the report of distant firing; the tocsin was clanging from the church towers. I awoke. It was the tocsin.
I want you to find out what the people I am sending you among are thinking themselves, and what they consider ought to be done. If we are not very careful on both sides we shall have the newspapers whipping us into war." The perpetual Egyptian trouble had cropped up again and the Carleton papers, in particular, were already sounding the tocsin.
But here's this Tocsin kickin' up the public sentiment; and if there ever was a follerin' sheep on earth, it's that same public sentiment!" "If it weren't for that" Joe flung himself heavily in a chair "there'd not be so much trouble. It's a clear enough case." "But don't ye see," interrupted Sheehan, "the Tocsin's tried it and convicted him aforehand?
For the Church rewards; humanity has cursed and killed every great benefactor it ever had INCLUDING CHRIST!" The terrible words beat on Aubrey's ears like the brazen clang of a tocsin, for he knew they were true. But he held his ground. "There are worse things than death," he said simply. Gherardi smiled kindly. "And there are worse things than life!" he said,
Let none come to take our lives when we are defending our liberty." Legal in Normandy, violent in Brittany, tumultuous in Bearn, the parliamentary protests took a politic and methodical form in Dauphiny. An insurrection amongst the populace of Grenoble, soon supported by the villagers from the mountains, had at first flown to arms at the sound of the tocsin.
Preparations vast were made at once for the general's reception; from attic to kitchen was sounded the tocsin of his coming.
The Babu started, and rose to his feet shivering; the others still squatted, mute and motionless as statues of ebony, neither by gesture nor murmur betraying their consciousness that at any moment, by tocsin from the fort, a thousand fierce and relentless warriors might be launched like sleuth hounds upon their track. Meanwhile, what of Desmond and the Gujarati?
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