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Updated: June 26, 2025


She half rose, an alarmed expression flitted over her face, and she sank into her seat again. Tommy's eyes were studiously on the checkerboard. With one convulsive effort, the woman struggled to her feet, grasped the bell-cord and jerked it twice, then dropped into her seat and began to weep hysterically.

Horace pulled the bell-cord, but madame was too excitable for that means of communication. She ran into the antechamber, and put her head over the banisters, calling, "Jules! Jules!" louder and louder. She might have heard Jules's slippered feet running from the street into the corridor and up-stairs, had she not been so deaf. He appeared at the door. "But where have you been?

As the coupé took a turn, he looked out of the window. They were entering a driveway, lined on each side of which were chestnuts. Indeed, the house was set in the center of a grove of these splendid trees. The coupé stopped. "Wait," said Warrington, alighting. "Yes, sir." Warrington went up the broad veranda steps and pulled the old-fashioned bell-cord.

It would have grieved the management to hear this faithful employé's denunciation of that particular item of their rolling-stock. "Get out of the way here, boys, and let's see what's the matter with this damned bell-cord," he continued, elbowing his way through the swarm about the door. Once fairly within, he threw a quick glance along the aisle. The left sections of the car were deserted.

And was there not something about a rescue at the last moment by a band of these border bravos? But stay; let us have the colonel's story at first hands. Have the goodness to ring the bell for me, will you, Captain?" The crisis was come. A pull at the bell-cord would summon the guard, and the guard would be sent after Colonel Tarleton.

She filled out several of the most alarming hollows around her hips and along her ridge-pole, she seemingly took on height and length. She grew smooth, even glossy; her tail no longer hung on her like a bell-cord, but became a lithe weapon of defense that could swat a fly with fatal precision on any given spot of her black-and-white area.

A shower of bullets fell on us and around us. The General, with a single movement, fell heavily at full length on the bed of silk, muslin, and laces that we made for him. Three or four men with red trousers threw themselves on Mme. General, who fought, bit, and screamed, "Assassins! assassins!" A soldier tore away the bell-cord, firmly tied her hands, and carried her away like a bundle.

The hostess lifted her hand toward a bell-cord but the visitor stayed it, absently staring while letting herself be pressed toward the door, thrilled with a longing as wild as Anna's and for the same sight, yet cunningly pondering. Nay, waiting, rather, on instinct, which the next instant told her that Anna would inevitably go herself, no matter who stayed.

He owns two slaves now who are running the river. He keeps out of politics, and he has none of the Yankee faults." "I wish he had," said Virginia. The Colonel made no answer to this. Getting up, he went over to the bell-cord at the door and pulled it. Jackson came in hurriedly. "Is my bag packed?" "Yes, Marsa." "Where are you going?" cried Virginia, in alarm.

That bell-cord connects with your maid's room " "I have no maid. I am not well off at all. I wonder Lady Victoria thought it worth while to ask me down." "Dear me, how odd! May I sit with you a little while? I never before saw a poor American girl." "I'll be only too grateful if you will stay with me as long as you can. I am not exactly poor.

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