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"But my lordship pleases otherwise. Give him pen and ink, and set him near the table." This was done; and Sir Francis regarded the paper with swimming eyes. "Now, your name, written near the bottom of the sheet," Lord Roos cried. "'Tis done under com compulsion; and I pro protest against it." "Sign, I say," the young nobleman exclaimed, rapping the table peremptorily.
"There go the Temple bells, and the priests are beating the sunrise drums! It's not so very early, after all." "Now, you'll hear Grannie's stick rapping for the maids to get up," Take answered. "The Temple bells always wake her." And at that very minute, "Rat-tat-tat" sounded Grannie's stick on the woodwork of the room where the maids slept.
"If you have anything to say, speak out; if not, get up another dance." "Mrs. Troy has come downstairs." said Samway to Tall. "If you want to tell her, you had better do it now." "Do you know what they mean?" the farmer asked Bathsheba, across the room. "I don't in the least," said Bathsheba. There was a smart rapping at the door. One of the men opened it instantly, and went outside. "Mrs.
Mrs Wititterly's answer was lost in the noise of a tremendous rapping at the street-door, and before it had ceased to vibrate, there drove up a handsome cabriolet, out of which leaped Sir Mulberry Hawk and his friend Lord Verisopht. 'They are here now, said Kate, rising and hurrying away.
This rapping would take place sometimes six or seven times in half an hour, till Waymark hastened away in annoyance. And indeed there was little possibility of conversing in Julian's own room. Julian sat for ever in a state of nervous apprehension, dreading the summons which was sure to come before long.
It was long before he could go to sleep for thinking of the new world opened to him, and imagining how he would act under a hundred different circumstances, and what he would say, and what Cynthia would say; but a dream at length came, and led him away to a great city and a brilliant house; and while he was there, he heard a loud rapping on the under floor, and saw that it was daylight.
Thereupon, hauling out his precious snuffbox and rapping upon the lid, he offered a pinch around. Then calling attention to the inscription, he demanded to know whether a man who had behaved so well upon that occasion had need to be afraid of a whole churchful of devils. "I would," he cried, "offer the Devil a pinch, as I have offered it to you.
I bid you a very good evening, Mr. Kenyon. The young man turned on his heel and went into the hotel. John walked to his own much more modest inn, and retired for the night. He did not sleep well. All night long, phantom telegraph-messengers were rapping at the door, and he started up every now and then to receive cablegrams which faded away as he awoke.
By degrees heads were again lowered over their tasks, the scratching of pencils on slates, and the far-off rapping of Woodpeckers again indicated the normal quiet of the schoolroom, and the master knew he had triumphed, and the ordeal was past.
That was a tactical mistake. He should have taken the boy straight into the shed." He pointed as he spoke to one of the footprints beside the wheel-tracks, from the toe of which projected a small segment of the print of a little rubber heel. We now made our way back to the house, where we found Willett pensively rapping at the front door with a cycle-spanner.
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