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Updated: May 17, 2025
As he had seen them before mid-day dinner, the more formal ceremonies of salutation after absence so hateful to the Five Towns temperament were happily over and done with. Robert turned his head slightly, inspected his father with a judicial detachment that hardly escaped the inimical, and then resumed his book. "'Ello, father!" shrilled Ralph. "Come and help me to stand on this wire-rope."
Deafening was the cheer when the gig at last entered the shaft and disappeared, and intense the anxiety of the vast multitude as they watched the descent in imagination, of course, for nothing could be seen but the tight wire-rope uncoiling its endless length, and disappearing like a thin snake down the jaws of some awful sea-monster that had climbed so far up the cliffs to meet and devour it!
The gangs had spread themselves along the embankments, regardless of the cold rain of the dawn, and there they waited for the flood. Only Peroo kept his men together behind the swell of the guard-tower, where the stone-boats lay tied fore and aft with hawsers, wire-rope, and chains.
Leave line just slack abaout as 'tis now, and kip a good fine look-out be'ind 'ee." "There's an accommodatin' blighter for you!" said Pyecroft. "Where does he expect we'll be, with these currents evolutin' like sailormen at the Agricultural Hall?" I left the bridge to watch the wire-rope at the stern as it drew out and smacked down upon the water.
The furze was a maze of a million spikes, and branches, and twisted, gnarled stems tough as wire-rope; a wonderful place, all honeycombed with rabbit-runs; a world unto itself. The cat moved on quickly into the heart of the furze, pausing every few strides to listen and glare round. Several times he sniffed the sickly grass and the carpet of dead spikes.
After that I shall deal with you. Mark me! I have you: I am swifter on foot, and I am stronger. Come quietly. Barto smiled in grim contempt. 'Keep your foot fast on that stone, you're a prisoner, he replied, and seeing Ammiani coming, 'Net him, my sling-stone! my serpent! he signalled to his wife, who threw herself right round Ammiani in a tortuous twist hard as wire-rope.
And then but it was of no conceivable importance a wire-rope raced through his hand, burning it, the high bank disappeared, and with it all the slowly dispersing factors of the problem. He was sitting in the rainy darkness sitting in a boat that spun like a top, and Peroo was standing over him.
The gangs had spread themselves along the embankments, regardless of the cold rain of the dawn, and there they waited for the flood. Only Peroo kept his men together behind the swell of the guard-tower, where the stone-boats lay tied fore and aft with hawsers, wire-rope, and chains.
"It isn't a wire-rope," said Robert from the hearthrug, without stirring, "it's a brass-rail." "Yes, it is a wire-rope, because I can make it bend," Ralph retorted, bumping down on the thing. "Anyhow, it's going to be a wire-rope." Maisie simply stuck several fingers into her mouth, shifted to one side, and smiled at her father in a style of heavenly and mischievous flirtatiousness.
It was Peroo who had saved the girder of Number Seven pier from destruction when the new wire-rope jammed in the eye of the crane, and the huge plate tilted in its slings, threatening to slide out sideways.
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