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I prayed to the Virgin, but my prayers seemed to get no clear answer. . . . Then I pulled a staple from the wall, and with the point of it prised out one of the jewels, an amethyst. . . . I had spoken already to Gioconda.
With one effort he prised up the cover, but the hinge snapped, and the lid rolled across the table into Barebone's hand. "Ah!" he cried, in that breathless silence, "now I remember it. I remember the red silk lining of the cover, and in the other side there is the portrait of a lady with " The Vicomte paused, with his palm covering the other half of the locket and looked across at Loo.
And next they reached the gibbet: and one swarmed up the black post, and hammered and filed and prised, and then, oh merciful God! the creaking stopped at last! Now she could hear the wash of the waves, the rush of the wholesome wind!
It looked ill-fitting and might be unbarred, so I pulled the table below it, and found that with a little effort I could raise the flap. I knew I was taking immense risks, but I was so keen on my plan that I disregarded them. After some trouble I got the thing prised open, and catching the edges of the hole with my fingers raised my body and got my knees on the edge.
Then he set the foot that was hampered by the chain upon the bench, and with the staple that still hung from the end of it he prised open the link that attached it to his anklet. That done he took his revenge. Crying "Din!" as loudly as any of the Muslimeen boarders, he flung himself upon the rear of the Spaniards brandishing his chain. In his hands it became a terrific weapon.
With one effort he prised up the cover, but the hinge snapped, and the lid rolled across the table into Barebone's hand. "Ah!" he cried, in that breathless silence, "now I remember it. I remember the red silk lining of the cover, and in the other side there is the portrait of a lady with " The Vicomte paused, with his palm covering the other half of the locket and looked across at Loo.
"By the way you prised at me with that knife o' yours. And you call it Providence." Ben grinned. "Providence or no, you'll get this lad out o' the way, Sarah?" "H'm?" She considered me. "I can't take him home to Looe." "Why not?" "Folks would talk," she said modestly. "'Od rabbit it!" exclaimed Ben. "He's ten year old; and you were saying just now that the man took ye sudden!"
He slipped round the house and came back with a heavy hammer and a broad chisel. Bertric took them, and prised away the upper end of the midmost timber without any trouble. Then he drew it toward him, and the lower end wrenched free at once, for the nails that held this building which was to be burnt were not long.
Before long the sergeant, a little, withered sort of a fellow with diminutive features and a sandy, stubby moustache, called out in gruff, stern, hoarse, laboured accents: "So here you are, you rascals!" Ossip prised himself up from the ground with his elbow, and said hurriedly: "It was I that contrived the idea of the thing, your Excellency; but, pray let me off in honour of the festival."
They've a regular tariff on tonnage, same for yachts as for liners. We start at four to-morrow with a lot of other boats. I wonder if Bartels is here. The same silence reigned, but invisible forces were at work. The inner gates opened and we prised ourselves through into a capacious basin, where lay moored side by side a flotilla of sailing vessels of various sizes.
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