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There was something odd, if not comical, in this scrutiny; and the best of it all was, that the more closely we inspected and investigated, the more accurately did we discover that we were counterparts as exact as the two sides of a tally, or the teeth of a rat-trap with pardon to dear Mr. Mainwaring for the nasty comparison, whatever may have put it into my head.
"The same what?" she asked. "The same treasure that I gave Cora for a heirloom," he answered, his jaws like a rat-trap. "You gave Cora!" gasped Mary Jane. "What stuff are you telling?" And then the woman in her conquered, because she knew the value of things as well as another. "And a treasure it ain't any way," went on Mary Jane, "because a few shillings would buy it.
"Well, indeed!" said the one who came first; "it's anything but well. D n all country excursions say I." "Why, Bob, you don't mean to say as how you are caught in a rat-trap?" "Oh, you be d d! I am, ain't I?" "Yes; but are you going to stop there, or coming out, eh? You'll catch cold." "I have sprained my ankle." "Well?"
'It is not the same thing as a reason, but usually vastly more convincing. Will hung his head a little, and then raised it once more to heaven. The stars seemed to expand and emit a sharper brilliancy; and as he kept turning his eyes higher and higher, they seemed to increase in multitude under his gaze. 'I see, he said, turning to the young man. 'We are in a rat-trap. 'Something of that size.
A short, square chunk of a man walked into a shipping office on the East Side, and inquired for the Manager of the Line. He had kindly blue eyes, a stub nose, and a mouth that shut to like a rat-trap, and stayed shut. Under his chin hung a pair of half-moon whiskers which framed his weather-beaten face as a spike collar frames a dog's.
As like as not it wouldn't have occurred to anybody else to name this poor old rat-trap Rossmore Towers, but it just comes natural to him. Well, no doubt it's a blessed thing to have an imagination that can always make you satisfied, no matter how you are fixed.
Later on I reflected that two gentlemen like my friends could not do any good if they foregathered and personated correspondents of newspapers, and might, if they "stuck up" one of the little rat-trap states of Central India or Southern Rajputana, get themselves into serious difficulties.
Still, she gave us a start, though, so far as prisons go, I was better off in Granada than in that rat-trap." "Yes," answered Margaret innocently, "you had a garden to walk in there, had you not? No, don't be angry with me. Do you know what Betty did?" And she told him of how she had lifted her veil and kissed Morella without being discovered.
So Jim he was sorry, and said he wouldn't behave so no more, and then me and Tom shoved for bed. IN the morning we went up to the village and bought a wire rat-trap and fetched it down, and unstopped the best rat-hole, and in about an hour we had fifteen of the bulliest kind of ones; and then we took it and put it in a safe place under Aunt Sally's bed.
She had injured three hounds, upset two old women and a donkey-cart, broken a gate, and finally, on arriving at the place of her birth, had, according to the farmer, "fired the divil's pelt of a kick into her own mother's stomach". Moreover, she "hadn't as much sound skin on her as would bait a rat-trap" I here quote Mr. Trinder and she had fever in all her feet. Of course I bought her.
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