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He took her hands this time, and laying one over another, kissed the back of the uppermost, but yet so respectfully that Miss Quiney, entering the room just then, supposed him to be merely taking a ceremonious leave. For a few minutes he lingered out his call, hat and walking-cane in hand, talking pleasantly of his last night's guests, and with a smile that assumed his pardon to be granted.
"Voltigeurs!" he shouted; "Voltigeurs de la Garde!" just as he had done when he was off his head; and then suddenly, "En avant! en avant!" and up he came, waving his walking-cane over his head. He stopped short when he saw me looking at him, and I daresay he felt a bit ashamed of himself. "Hola, Jock!" he cried. "I didn't thought anybody was there. I am in what you call the high spirits to-night."
The poor mistress she's as bad as bad can be. And then began a whispered confidence, broken short by Nutter's again emerging, with the leather belt he wore at night on, and a short back-sword, called a coutteau de chasse, therein, and a heavy walking-cane in his hand.
She lifted her little walking-cane, and moved it slowly backwards and forwards in the empty air, with the action of some one who is clearing away an encumbrance to a free advance say the action of a person walking in a thick wood, and pushing aside the lower twigs and branches that intercept the way. "What are you about?" I asked. "Clearing the air," she answered. "The air is full of him.
That's a good time ago, I dare say, said my uncle, looking on him reflectively. 'Well, so it is, not far off fifty years, answered he. 'He was a hard-headed codger, he was; but you see the sprig of shillelagh was too hard for him ha, ha, ha! and he gave the skull a smart knock with his walking-cane, as he grinned at it and wagged his head.
You wanted to consult my father about them, I fancy, and, if I remember, you returned them to your pocket. Bommaney stood looking about him on the floor, trailing the point of his walking-cane purposelessly hither and thither; and it was at this moment, seeing how confused and broken his victim seemed, that young Mr. Barter tasted the first flavour of safety. 'I don't see anything, he said.
He was as lean as his own walking-cane, and his air of condescending gentility put a strange emphasis on his shabby clothes, and made them ten times as noticeable as they would have been without it. And yet at the very first sight of him I was persuaded that he was a gentleman. "You are Captain Fyffe?" he said, with a marked Italian accent. "That is my name," I responded.
Occasionally I grow careless and indifferent about possible danger, and leave my revolver hanging up in the bungalow; noticing its absence, he bids me buckle it around me, saying warningly, "Afghanistan; Afghanistan;" he also watches me retire at night to make sure that I put it under my pillow. One day, a visitor appears upon the scene, carrying a walking-cane.
He had evidently received his orders in anticipation of my arrival. "Mrs. Valeria?" he asked. "Yes." "And friend?" "And friend." "Please to step upstairs. You know the house." Crossing the hall, I stopped for a moment, and looked at a favorite walking-cane which Benjamin still kept in his hand. "Your cane will only be in your way," I said. "Had you not better leave it here?"
Had a person followed Louis when he withdrew, that watcher would have discovered, on peeping through the key-hole of his door, that he was engaged in one of the oddest of occupations for such a man, sweeping down from the ceiling, by means of a walking-cane, a long cobweb which lingered on high in the corner.
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