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"Plenty enough, I gol! I don't see where they all come fum." "Early Rose?" inquired the man, as if referring to the bugs. "No; Peachblows an' Carter Reds. My Early Rose is over near the house. The old woman wants 'em near. See the darned things!" he pursued, rapping savagely on the edge of the pan to rattle the bugs back. "How do yeh kill 'em-scald 'em?" "Mostly. Sornetimcs I
It was from a firm of solicitors in Lincoln's Inn, and it informed me, in a few precise sentences, that they had the authority of their client, Sir Michael Trogoldy, to pay me yearly the sum of five hundred pounds. There came no summons from Rowchester, and I dined alone. I must have dozed over my after-dinner cigarette, for at first that soft rapping seemed to come to me from a long way off.
Instead, in beche-de-mer, which was as habitual to him as his own Somo speech, he thought: "My word, that fella dog no fright along me." But age wearied sooner of the play, and Bashti put an end to it by rapping Jerry heavily behind the ear and stretching him out stunned.
"Master! master!" cried Elsje, rapping on the chest. There was no answer. "My God! my God!" shrieked the poor maid-servant. "My poor master is dead." "Ah!" said Madame Daatselaer, "your mistress has made a bad business of it. Yesterday she had a living husband. Now she has a dead one." But soon there was a vigorous rap on the inside of the lid, and a cry from the prisoner: "Open the chest!
A few moments of suspense, in which Lyon and his companion grew deadly pale, and then the noisy footsteps were silenced at their very door. A smothered sound of voices was followed by a trial of the lock, and then by a decided rapping. But no answer was made to the summons. Noiselessly, Mr.
But when a man speaks a great deal, it's natural he should occasionally say things out of the way." Rybin smiled. His teeth were white and strong. "Then the search. That won me over to you more than anything else. You and the Little Russian and Nikolay, you all got caught!" He paused for the right word and looked at the window, rapping the table with his fingers. "They discovered your resolve.
The rapping was repeated; and peering again across the room, he very distinctly perceived a figure upon the balcony by the open window. It was that of a woman who wore the black silk dress and the white yashmak of the Moslem, and who was bending forward looking into the room. "Who is there?" he called. "What do you want?" "S sh!"
Early in the morning, after Anthony's flight, he had awakened to hear a rapping upon the inn door, and, peeping from his window, had seen a couple of plainly dressed men waiting for admittance; but after that he had seen no more of them.
Lois laughed, and rose to go. "Tell your father what I said about a winter in town," Mrs. Dale called after her; and then, gathering her cards up, and rapping them on the table to get the edges straight, she said to herself, "But perhaps it won't be necessary to have a winter in town!" And there was a grim sort of smile on her face when, a moment later, Mr.
Berk-ley! Berk-ley!" She was awakened by a rapping at her door and her cousin's imperative voice: "I want to talk to you; are you in bed?" She drew the coverlet to her chin and called out: "Come in, Steve!" He came, tremendously excited, clutching the Herald in one hand. "I've had enough of this rebel newspaper!" he said fiercely. "I don't want it in the house again, ever.
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