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He turned quite quietly, and quite humbly, cautiously picked his way along the coping towards the drain-pipe. He reached this pipe and began, in humiliation, to climb down. It was a real climb down. Once in the street he was surrounded by the grey uniforms. The soldiers formed up. The sergeant gave the order. And away they marched, the dejected youth a prisoner between them.
About her forehead glittered a jeweled band with pendent gems which, at her moving, were like noon sun upon water. As he realized that this was indeed she whom he had come to seek, only to find her hedged about with difficulties and it might be by divinities which he had not dreamed of coping, a kind of madness seized St. George.
Wappinger gazed at Diane, in the half-tearful helplessness of one not used to coping with unusual situations. "Won't you come in and sit down?" she asked, with a sudden realization that they were still standing beneath the light in the hail. "No," Diane answered, with decision; "it isn't worth while. May I have the motor for an hour or so?" "Why, certainly. But where are you going?"
I generally stop here to take a look when I'm passing." And he spat tobacco juice on the coping. Stephen came to his senses. "And you are from New England?" he said. Mr. Hopper laughed. "Tarnation!" said he, "you get used to it. When I came here, I was a sort of an Abolitionist. But after you've lived here awhile you get to know that niggers ain't fit for freedom." Silence from Stephen.
He could easily have gotten away, as he could run along the coping of the brick parapet without turning a hair, but he was brought up by a narrow side street on which he had not counted, not having anticipated, like cats, a battle on the tiles. It was only some twelve or fifteen feet across the gap, and the landing on the other side was a flat roof.
That evening Roscoe confided to me that he had not asked Ruth Devlin to be his wife, nor had he, indeed, given her definite tokens of his love. But the thing was in his mind as a happy possibility of the future. We talked till midnight, sitting at the end of the verandah overlooking the ravine. This corner, called the coping, became consecrated to our many conversations.
The stone balustrade of the broad terrace had several gaps in it, and the coping and the pillars were lying where they had fallen; the steps of the terrace had grass growing in the interstices of the stones; one of the lions which had flanked the steps had disappeared, and the remaining one was short of a front leg.
"How are you going about it, sir?" queried George, laying hold of the rope and signing to Bob to do the same. "I'll call out when I reach the water," said Benson; "then pay out three yards more quickly so that I can get to the bottom." "Very good, sir," answered both. Their master threw the other leg over the coping and sat motionless.
The shouts of their voices could be heard through the humming of the bell. This grew less and less with the swinging of the great rope that, hanging from the top of the belfry, dragged its end on the ground. Swallows flitted to and fro uttering little cries, cut the air with the edge of their wings, and swiftly returned to their yellow nests under the tiles of the coping.
She closed her tired eyes and pressed her hand heavily upon the stone coping of the parapet. It was the supreme effort, and when she looked down at Inez again she knew that she should live to the end of the ordeal without wavering. "I am going down to the throne room," she said, very quietly and gently. "You had better go to our apartment, dear, and wait for me there.
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