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Far off, far off, yet louder than any noise of earth, I heard from the dead years, and the dead heroes of these years; the hurrahing of ghostly voices and the clapping of unseen hands!" "It was like Houston to call the dead to the triumph," said the doctor, as he stood with the Senora in her room. He was unbuttoning her gloves, and her tears dropped down upon his hands.
"What!" said Billy, unbuttoning the collar of his coat to get a fairer view at his companion; "why, I thought you were " Here he made some resemblance of the usual manner of blessing oneself. "Me, devil a more nor yourself, Mr. Crow." "Why, do you know me, too?" "Troth, more knows you than you think." Billy looked very much puzzled at all this; at last he said,
When she leveled her eyes Gora was unbuttoning her gaiters. "It seems she died some time during the fire and he had a perfectly horrid experience getting the body out to the cemetery. But that has nothing to do with the story. He met Olive and the rest of us and Alexina the night of the Hofer ball.
"You do not know," he says, "the man whom you want to drive away. I advise you to mind what you do, or you may get into a scrape." "Who is this jackanapes that dares to give us advice?" "A man who will not stand any rudeness, and who demands satisfaction!" cries Brehan, unbuttoning his civilian's coat and showing his military order of Saint Louis.
Then he began unbuttoning and turning back his sleeves. "Here, let me do that," he said authoritatively. "Gee! I have never yet ridden in a Bear Cat. Take me with you, will you, Linda?" "Sure," said Linda, pressing the grease into the cup with a little paddle and holding it up to see if she had it well filled.
An Italian gentleman who was staying here made me a present of it." "You have ruffles of the same kind, I suppose?" "Yes, madam;" and so saying I stretched out my hand, unbuttoning my waistcoat. She gently drew out the ruffle, and seemed to place herself in a position to intoxicate me with the sight of her charms, although she was tightly laced. What an ecstatic moment!
Finding that he could not free himself, and that both would be drowned, he threw his legs round a hammock, and, unbuttoning his waistcoat with one hand, he allowed it to be drawn off, and then swam for the main-shrouds.
She was swimming and Keineth knew that as she swam she was unbuttoning and kicking off her shoes and her skirt. An encouraging shout went up as she moved rapidly forward, her head under water, first one straight, strong arm, then the other, shooting out and ahead! Off at a little distance the judges' boat was chugging. From the beach the spectators, breathless, could see a struggle in the water.
In fact the corpse ought to have been raised up; and the other hospitaller, who was unbuttoning the dead man's old frock coat, remarked in an undertone that it would be best to cut everything away with a pair of scissors. Otherwise there would be no end of the job. Berthaud, however, rushed up to them, after rapidly consulting Baron Suire.
By the number of advertisements in the petites affiches or daily advertiser of Paris, offering a reward for articles lost, no doubt can exist of there being a vast number of pickpockets in this gay capital; and a stranger must naturally draw such an inference from observing where the pockets are placed in men's clothes: in the coat, it is in the inside of the facing, parallel to the breast: in the waistcoat, it is also in the inside, but lower down, so that when a Frenchman wants to take out his money, he must go through the ceremony of unbuttoning first his surtout, if he wears one in winter, then his coat, and lastly his waistcoat.
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