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She saw them falter, as if they had lost their step in their astonishment; then they seemed both to vanish, and her partner had released her, and was helping Miss Triscoe up from the floor; Burnamy was brushing the dust from his knees, and the citizen who had bowled them over was boisterously apologizing and incessantly bowing. "Oh, are you hurt?" Mrs. March implored.
Cayley believes I've sent you off to the ends of the earth; and I've been mendaciously assuring her that you're all right, though Miss Pendennis has had her doubts, and nearly bowled me out, once or twice." "Miss who?" I shouted. "Miss Pendennis, of course. Didn't you know she was staying with your cousin again? A queer coincidence about that portrait! Hello, here we are at Victoria.
So she laid her little cream-gloved hand on the Duke's arm and went with him, shyly at first, yet with a pretty stateliness which was all her own, and moving slowly among the crowd of guests, gradually recovered her ease and self-possession, and began to talk to him with a delightful naturalness and candour which fairly captivated His Grace, in fact, "bowled him over," as he afterwards declared.
They were, of course, intensely interested in my guns, and were full of amazement when I bowled over a carrion crow at a distance of six hundred yards with a rifle bullet; and they did not hesitate to hint plainly that nothing could possibly be more acceptable to the king than the gift of one of my fire weapons.
It was "Ranjitsinji," who had carried his bat to many a pavilion where English men and women had clapped their hands to him, on glorious days when there was sunlight on English lawns. He took the club and stood at the wicket and was bowled third ball by a man who had only played cricket after ye manner of Stratford-atte-Bow.
"Well bowled!" said Raffles with less reserve. Another delivery was merely ignored, both at the wicket and at my side, and then came a high full-pitch to leg which the batsman hit hard but very late. It was a hit that might have smashed the pavilion palings.
Really, I have distinguished myself, and, if I pull out, may lead a fairly decent life and be rather a credit. If anything does happen to me I'll feel like such an ass for not being bowled over like a gentleman in the battle last week. Love to all. P. S. This is a little disconnected on account of forty grains of quinine to-day. Santiago de Cuba, August 6, 1898. Dear Mother: I am now in Cuba.
"I'm thinking, by the curous made creeturs 'e sends along sometimes." "Chifney," Richard called imperatively. "Chifney, are you nearly ready? We ought to get home. There's a storm coming up." "Well, we shall get that matter of the saddle done right enough, Sir Richard," the trainer remarked presently, as the carriage bowled up the street. "Don't be too free with the whip, sir.
Thank Heaven you were bowled over by that confounded malaria, for otherwise we should have missed you." "That is one way of looking at it," answered Meredith. But he did not go so far as to say that it was a way which had not previously suggested itself to him. "Of course it is. The best way, I take it. Well how do you feel? Come, you don't look so bad." "Oh much better, thanks.
Near Dickiebush the fields were pitted with numerous shell holes, and the rails of a light railway at one place pointed heavenward where a shell had exploded between them. A pup, evidently unused to motor traffic on this bad bit of road, took a chance and tried to dash across in front of the car but miscalculated his distance and was bowled into the ditch.
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