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Quite possibly the entire crew were innocent of what was actually transpiring aboard, and equally indifferent, so long as their wages were satisfactory. Yet it was even more probable that they had been selected for this special service because of lack of ordinary scruples; men who would never question so long as the pay was adequate for the danger involved.
"Be quiet, my friends," he said with a gesture of command, "and when this prodigal has regained his composure we will ask him to tell us his story." Of what was transpiring around him, David seemed to be entirely unconscious and at last the fickle crowd became impatient. "What's de matter wid you?" said a sarcastic voice. "Speak out! Don't snuffle," exclaimed another.
There was now some prospect that the printer's types would be again set in motion, although it was quite proper that they should remain in abeyance while so many grand events were transpiring in the region of the domestic hearth. This was late in the year 1795. After Mr. Coleridge had been some little time settled in Bristol, he experienced another removal.
Their bombing slackened off gradually and it became possible to hold on until the R.E. came up and erected a barricade across the trench. While this was transpiring word of the loss of the machine-guns had gone back. Captain Morton heard of the incident and decided to make an effort to recover them.
Something very important was evidently transpiring the ill-humored air of those left behind in the castle, and the sudden servility of this plowman in uniform, made it very apparent. . . . Some distance beyond the castle he saw soldiers, many soldiers. A battalion of infantry had spread itself along the walls with trucks, draught horses and swift mounts.
These men, as soon as they had descended to the ground and had adjusted their armor, rushed to the city walls, surprised and killed the sentinels and watchmen, threw open the gates, and gave the whole body of their comrades that were lurking outside the walls, in the silence and darkness of the night, an unobstructed admission. Æneas was asleep in his house while these things were transpiring.
The self-proclaimed champions of liberty discovered in it a violation of the constitution and a new indignity to France. Meantime events were transpiring in Europe which added not a little to the excitement in the public mind against Great Britain. For many years war had existed between Portugal and Algiers.
They came separately, remained about half an hour, and then Weirmarsh himself let them out, shaking hands with them effusively. Suddenly a taxicab drove up, and from it Sir Hugh, in black overcoat and opera hat, stepped out and was at once admitted, the taxi driving off. Walter, as he paced up and down the pavement outside, would have given much to know what was transpiring within.
Do you hear me, Mason? I will be obeyed!" "Yes, sir, I hear. No one shall disturb you." Again Basil Hurlhurst turned to the portrait, paying little attention to what was transpiring around him. "I shall put it at once in the hands of the cleverest detectives," he mused; "surely they will be able to find some trace of my lost darling." Seventeen years! Ah, what might have happened her in that time?
If Faynie had but read the papers she would have known what was transpiring, but, alas! she did not and was utterly unaware of the strange turn of fortune's wheel which had occurred in the life of the young assistant cashier to whom she had given the wealth of her love, when he was poor.
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