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In a couple of minutes we ran softly alongside the bank, and the sail was silently lowered. The Chinese kept very quiet. Yellow Handkerchief sat down in the bottom alongside of me, and I could feel him straining to repress his raspy, hacking cough. Possibly seven or eight minutes later I heard Charley's voice as the Reindeer went past the mouth of the slough.
Still, in his present humour, Dickie's sense of noblesse oblige was strong. "I suppose I've got to go in and help entertain everybody," he remarked. "Her ladyship'll think something's wrong, Sir Richard, and be anxious if you stay away." The boy held out his arms. "All right then, Winter," he said. Here Chaplin again gave that admonitory cough.
It is a breach of etiquette when in company to try to attract the attention of one person by signals, a cough, a poke, or a nudge. Any appearance, indeed, of privacy or mystery is rude in company. It is a breach of etiquette to assume a lazy, lounging attitude in company.
The certainty of their presence at last quieted the emperor, and he tried to take some rest. But the marches which he had just made with the array, the fatigues of the preceding days and nights, so many cares, and his intense and anxious expectation, had worn him out; the chillness of the atmosphere had struck to him; an irritating fever, a dry cough, and excessive thirst consumed him.
With a man it was very different; that alert, active, intelligent husband, instinct with the throbbing life of his saw-mill, creator and worker in one, challenged his unqualified trust and admiration. He had become conscious for the last minute or two of thinking rapidly and becoming feverishly excited; of breathing with greater difficulty, and a renewed tendency to cough.
"Yes," she interrupted. "You take the shop for half an hour to oblige me, won't you?" She had a singularly rich and promising voice that well matched her outline. "All right," I said. "I'll do it but you'd better wrap yourself up, Mr. Shaynor." "Oh, a brisk walk ought to help me. We're only going round by the church." I heard him cough grievously as they went out together.
My little woman hasn't a good ear for names," proceeds Mr. Snagsby after consulting his cough of consideration behind his hand, "and she considered Nemo equally the same as Nimrod. In consequence of which, she got into a habit of saying to me at meals, 'Mr. Snagsby, you haven't found Nimrod any work yet! or 'Mr.
"No, dear, I know you don't mean it, and I don't pay no attention to it." She spoke so gently that he looked at her surprised, for he remembered her quick temper, and he said, "You're the best wife a man ever had." "No, I'm not, Bill, but I tries to do my best." The spring was the harshest ever known, and his cough grew worse and the blood-spitting returned. Esther grew seriously alarmed.
If he says another word, or interferes with you again, my dear, come and tell me; and, as sure as he's a bullying, unmanly, braggadocio of a landlord, I'll pull him up." With those words the beadle gave a loud cough to clear his throat, and another thump of his cane on the floor, and so went striding out again before I could open my lips to thank him.
And as he pared the fruit, in spite of his sister's "O fie, Monkbarns!" and the prolonged cough of the minister, accompanied by a shake of his huge wig, the Antiquary proceeded to detail the intrigue which had given rise to the fame of the abbot's apple with more slyness and circumstantiality than was at all necessary.
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