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But I know you well enough, my man; and you can scarcely have forgotten Lieutenant Splinter of the Torch, one would think?" The name so startled the poor fellow, that in his hurry to unlace his legs, as he sat tailor-fashion, he fairly capsized and toppled down on his nose. "Eh! no yes, him sure enough! And who is de piccaniny hofficer? Oh! I see, Massa Tom Cringle!
Think we all private here now, though in Gold House never can be sure," and he looked round him suspiciously, adding, "rummy place, Gold House, full of all sort of holes made by old fellows thousand year ago, which no one know but Bonsa priests. Still, best risk it and take off your face so that you have decent wash," and he began to unlace the mask on his master's head.
"I beg your pardon," she said, "but I cannot bear it a moment longer! Something in my boot hurts me so!" She limped to the road-side, sat down, accepted the service of Ian to unlace her boot, and gave a sigh of relief when he pulled it off. He inverted and shook it, then searched and found a nail which must have hurt her severely. But how to get rid of the cruel projection!
And the cabin hatch will do for a deck. Spikes for thole-pins, and oars from the pinnace. Unlace the bonnet of the jib for a sail." "You are a proper sailorman, Joe. A voyage by starlight to an unknown coast. 'Tis highly romantic." They set to work without delay. Captain Wellsby had occupations of his own and no more than glanced at them in passing.
I am very sorry the peasant woman has given you that corset, as otherwise I might at least have seen my little pets without fear of bad dreams." "But you must not be angry with the good woman, for she knows that a corset is easy to unlace. And I cannot bear to see you sad." With these words she turned her ardent gaze upon me, and I covered her with kisses which she returned with interest.
"Water, papa, thrown in her face shall I ring for some?" "No, my dear is there nothing else we can do?" "Oh, yes, papa, unlace her stays."
She must know that within a few hours Kedsty would be found, and the long arm of the wilderness police would begin its work. And if it caught them She had thrust her feet toward him and was wriggling them inside her boots, so that he heard the slushing sound of water. "Ugh, but they are wet!" she shivered. "Will you unlace them and pull them off for me, Jeems?"
The Earl smiled, and bidding Malise unlace his helmet in compliment to his guests, he stood presently bareheaded before them, his head appearing above the blackness of his armour, bright as a flower with youth and instinct with all the fiery beauty of his race. It was James the Gross who came forward to act as herald.
"Oh, I've heard of him. And your people are always at home. Lucky beggar!" He was silent a moment watching Roy unlace his boot. Then he asked suddenly, in a voice that tried to sound casual: "I say have you told any of the other boys about India and your Mother?" "No why? Is there any harm?" Roy was on the defensive at once. "Well no. With the right sort, it wouldn't make a scrap of difference.
It did not seem as if it could possibly be Kit, his dauntless, self-reliant pal, lying there so white and still. When they reached the shore of the island, Stanley carried her in his arms to his own cot. "Hadn't I better go for help?" Billie asked. "There isn't time," Stanley answered, shortly. "Warm those blankets, get me the bottle of aromatic spirits of ammonia, and unlace her boots."
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