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But to declare my intention publicly, at a moment when the Government is in danger, would have the appearance of ratting. I must be guided by circumstances; but my present intention is to say nothing on the Second Reading.
I have come to see you because I am very much afraid that we have been the victims of false statements, the victims of a disgraceful plot." "Rubbish!" Fenn scoffed. "You're ratting, that's what you are." "You'd better thank Providence," Julian replied sternly, "that there is time for you to rat, too that is, if you have any care for your country. Now, Mr. Fenn, I am going to ask you a question.
A shade of displeasure had crept over the immobile features of Miss Berber. She opened her eyes and regarded the lank Marchmont with distaste. Her finger pressed a button on the divan. Slowly she raised herself to her elbow, while he watched, his pale eyes fixed on her with the expression of a ratting dog waiting its master's thanks after a catch.
Both of them had in private conversation on different occasions acknowledged the soundness of the Uitlander cause. To the suggestion, 'Then why not say so publicly? the less important of the two replied, 'People would only say that I am climbing down and ratting on my party. And the more important of the two, answering a similar question, said, 'Yes, the Rev. S.J. Du Toit did that.
On another occasion I remember I was worked up into a ferocious excitement about the rats in the old barn. We went ratting, just as though I was Tom Brown or Harry East or any other of the beastly little models of cant and cruelty we English boys were trained to imitate. It was great sport. It was a tremendous spree.
Good dog!" a man began scratching the sand as a ratting terrier does the earth, until he had excavated a hole big enough in which to curl himself, where he lay until desert things that creep and crawl drove him out again, shrieking for water.
"What is it?" said Hercus. "Can you not see, lad? Why, it's silver!" Now the explanation of Willie's curious discovery, as we afterwards fully learned, was this: When I took up the dead falcon, Hercus, intent upon witnessing Selta's skill at ratting, stood beside the dog as she scraped with her forefeet the shingle from the crevice through which the rat had escaped.
Leaving the London blood at the door of the Suffolk Arms, crushing, burning, damning and ratting himself at Crispin's magnificence, they rolled away through the night in the direction of Ipswich. Ten o'clock in the morning beheld them at the door of the Garter Inn at Harwich. But the jolting of the coach had so hardly used Crispin that he had to be carried into the hostelry.
Rupert, slim against Halkett's bulk, alert and straight, was thinking faster than he spoke, and while he reminded George of this and that, how they had gone ratting once together, how George had let him try a colt that he was breaking, Helen knew there were subtle questions in his brain, but if George suspected them, he gave no sign.
'I don't know. I don't get on. 'If it comes to that, I haven't a friend of my own age, either. And you have a brother. 'Ratting! Charles said eloquently. 'You'll hear the noise. He handed her over to his father's care. She was more than satisfied with her afternoon. She did not see John Batty but she heard the noise; she was aware that Mr.
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