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Vanringham leaped to the floor and stood thus, all tension. He raised clenched, quivering hands toward the ceiling. "O King of Jesters!" he cried, in horrid blasphemy; and then again, "O King of Jesters!" And by this time men were shouting without, and at the door there was a prodigious and augmenting hammering.
He stood thus, his pink-tipped fingers caressing the money, while his eyes fixed those of Mr. Vanringham. "And the chief priests," observed Osric Allonby, "took the silver pieces and said, 'It is not lawful for to put them into the treasury, because it is the price of blood. Are they, then, fit to be touched by gentlemen, Mr. ah, but I forget your given name?"
The lackey coughed, choked, clutched his assassin by each shoulder; thus he stood with a bewildered face, shuddering visibly, every muscle twitching. Suddenly he shrieked, with an odd, gurgling noise, and his grip relaxed, and Francis Vanringham seemed to crumple among his garments, so that he shrank rather than fell to the floor.
She sniffed, and I closed the door; and within the moment the two men fell upon me, from the rear, and presently had me trussed like a fowl and bound with that abominable Parson's coil of rope. "Believe me," says Mr. Vanringham, now seated upon the table and indolently dangling his heels, the ecclesiastical monstrosity, having locked the door upon Mrs.
But it vexes me to have Brother Simon butchered like this.... These natural instincts are damnably inconvenient, and expensive, at times, Mr. Vanringham, beside being ruinous to one's sense of humor, Mr. Vanringham. Why, to think that she alone should go scot-free! and of her ordering a stage-box within the hour of two men's destruction on her account!
Demented landlady of her heart, she would sublet that antiquated chamber to the first adventurer who came prepared to pay his scot in the false coin of compliment; and 'twas not difficult to comprehend how this young Thespian had acquired its tenancy. But now the face of Mr. Vanringham was attenuated by her revelations, and the wried mouth of Mr.
I've been, since April, valet to the old Prince de Gatinais, Monsieur de Soyecourt's father." "Yet lackeyship smacks, however vaguely, of an honest livelihood. You disappoint me, Mr. Vanringham." "Nay, believe me, I yet pilfer a cuff-button or perhaps a jewel, when occasion offers, lest any of my talents rust.
"O ungenerous! this Vanringham has been bribed!" "I pray you," said the Duke, "give vent to no such scandal. Vanringham's life would not be worth a farthing if he had done such a thing, and he knows it. Nay, I have planned it more neatly. To-night Mr.
He unlocked the door. "Gentlemen, gentlemen!" says he, with deprecating hand, "surely this disturbance is somewhat outre, a trifle misplaced, upon the threshold of a bridal-chamber?" "My grandmother!" shrieks Gerald. "Villain, what have you done with my grandmother?" "The query were more fitly put," Vanringham retorts, "to the lady's husband." And he waves his hand toward me.
Yet by ordinary the heart of woman is not obdurate, and upon one lady here I have some claim " Dorothy had drawn away from him, with an odd and frightened cry. "Not upon me, sir! I never saw you except across the footlights. You know I never saw you except across the footlights, Mr. Vanringham!" Fixedly he regarded her, with a curious yet not unpleasing smile.
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