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And then, it seemed almost directly, they were on the steamer in the midst of the wildest bustle and confusion; carriages were driving down and leaving passengers; passengers were getting into a state of excitement about baggage which had not arrived and threatened to be too late; big trunks and cases were being bumped down and dragged about; sailors were uncoiling ropes and hurrying to and fro; officers were giving orders; ladies and gentlemen and children and nurses were coming on board, some were laughing and looked gay, some were silent and sad, here and there two or three were crying and touching their eyes with their handkerchiefs.
"Yes," said the officer, without looking around. Sara was a little taken aback, but he looked so conceited, as he stood there coiling and uncoiling his watch-spring tongue, that she suddenly felt herself growing quite provoked. "That isn't the right answer," she said. The Butterfly-Officer turned his lazy eyes and looked her over for some time without speaking.
Suddenly he saw the profile of the dead woman with one eye turned toward him, graciously and malignly, just as the "eye of the morning" must have looked at its mistress while uncoiling her mysterious dances in her Asiatic dwelling. Ulysses concentrated his attention on the Phantasm's pallid brow touched by the silky caress of her curls.
Said he: "Give thanks for this stupendous thing which we have been permitted to witness. It is the Vernal Equinox!" There were shoutings and great rejoicings. "But," said the Angle-Worm, uncoiling after reflection, "this is dead summer-time." "Very well," said the Turtle, "we are far from our region; the season differs with the difference of time between the two points." "Ah, true: True enough.
The river, too, seems to change its character, and become a pale serpent, uncoiling itself from some mountain fastness where no living creatures besides great auks and carrion birds, dwell. In such surroundings as these there were established in the Middle Ages, two religious houses, within a mile of one another, on opposite sides of the swirling river.
"You see," observed the boatswain, as he busied himself in uncoiling and making a running noose on the rope, "I'm ordered to prewent you from carryin' out your intentions wotiver these may be by puttin' a coil or two o' this here rope round you. Now, wot I've got to ask of you is Will ye submit peaceable like to have it done?"
She went to her seat, which she had moved a short distance apart from the rest, and, sitting down, began playing listlessly with her gold chain, as was a common habit with her, coiling it and uncoiling it about her slender wrist, and braiding it in with her long, delicate fingers. Presently she looked up.
Whereupon, at a word from the induna, a man dismounted, and, uncoiling his hobble rope, slipped the noose round one of the ankles of the corpse, attached the other end to his horse's girth, and, mounting, galloped off toward the edge of the plateau, dragging the body after him until it was removed to a sufficient distance to be quite out of the way of the manoeuvring troops, when it was abandoned to become a prey to the jackals and vultures!
A bystander would not have gathered, from his manner, that he was warmly in love with this lady; but, for all that, his lordship was gradually uncoiling himself, and gracefully, quietly basking in the rays of Barbara Sinclair. He was also just beginning to take an interest in subjects of the day ministries, flat paintings, controversial novels, Cromwell's spotless integrity, etc. why not?
My nigger, that I tied ha! ha! a good job for Patty Cannon, at her age! says t'other's a pore coaster named Jimmy Phoebus." "Joe must be ready for a quick departure," the Captain exclaimed, "when we come back from Dover: it is a bold undertaking, and the whole of the little state will be aroused like a black snake uncoiling in one's pocket."
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