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There was another glance up and down the athletic figure, a half- apprehensive smile as the baronet thought of his wife, and then he said: "We must see if anything can be done." He pulled a bell-cord. A servant appeared. "Ask the housekeeper to come for a moment, please." Neither spoke till the housekeeper appeared. "Hovey," he said to the grim woman, "give Mr. Gaston the room in the north tower.
Well, all the better; I'll get more to drink in the dining room. Order the tea as soon as you please." "Ring the bell, Patrick." The Squire strode to the mantelpiece, pulled a bell-cord which hung from the ceiling, a distant bell was heard ringing in noisy fashion, and a moment afterward Pegeen put in her head. "Come right in, Margaret," said her mistress.
When she came to herself again the man was stirring feebly and muttering to himself under his breath. With slow and painful steps she got across the room and pulled the bell-cord. She remained there ringing until the old Justine, blinking and half-dressed, appeared with a candle in the doorway.
"I will, and God help us all to straighten out this blunder!" "Amen to that! One word more, and then I'm off. If a butcher or a baker, or even a mountaineer pulls the bell-cord and shows this ring, admit him without fail. He will have vital news. And now, good night and good luck to your excellency." For half an hour the ambassador remained staring at the candlesticks.
"This key belongs to the man who first brings me word of that woman's death." So saying, she kissed the little key and held it to the other's lips to kiss also. "What do you say?" "I am wont only to think and to act, not to promise," was his reply. "Very well. Au revoir!" The marchioness pulled her bell-cord three times for her maid, a signal for her visitor to retire.
A bad road is usually one on which a short time previously one or several trainmen have been killed by tramps. Heaven pity the tramp who is caught "underneath" on such a road for caught he is, though the train be going sixty miles an hour. The shack fastens the coupling-pin to the bell-cord, drops the former down between the platforms, and pays out the latter.
Jimmie Drexell is coming, and I am going to drive him down. We will stop and pick you up on the way. An answer will oblige, if not too much trouble." He put the invitation in an envelope and addressed it. Then he pulled the bell-cord, and a boy shortly entered the room with a tray containing breakfast and a little heap of letters.
In his own vernacular, as afterwards expressed to the conductor, "I seen I was up ag'in' the real t'ing dis time," but it was hard to admit it at the moment. Vexation had to have a vent. The bell-cord no longer served. The supposed meddler had proved a help.
With the greatest good nature in life, Pennington climbed into the cab, reached for the bell-cord, and rang the bell vigorously. Then he permitted himself a triumphant toot of the whistle, after which he threw off the air and gently opened the throttle. He was not a locomotive-engineer but he had ridden in the cab of his own locomotive and felt quite confident of his ability in a pinch.
Effingham's hand as it touched the bell-cord; "it would appear distrustful, and even cruel, were we to enter into such an inquiry so soon. Powis might think we valued his family, more than we do himself," "Eve is right, Ned; but I will not sleep without learning all.
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