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Trent, in the adjoining room, she instantly closed her heavy lids, and opened them no more till a series of thumps upon her shoulders aroused her. Then she realized that Ned and Luis were reminding her of yesterday's promise that, if they'd eat no more plum cake overnight they should have some for their breakfasts. "Land of love! What you doing? Is it daylight?
'You show the thumps of an electric battery at each elbow, and expect your Goddess of lightnings not to see that she moves you. Go. You have not sided with me, and I am right, and I am a woman. By the way, Sandra mia, I would beg the loan of your Beppo for two hours or less. Vittoria placed Beppo at her disposal. 'And you run home to bed, continued Laura.
"All I can make of it is that that loose-shouldered chap Roden is a scoundrel," he said bluntly, from behind a great cigar, "and wants thumping. Now, if there's anything in that line " "No; but you must not tell him so," interrupted Cornish. "I wish to goodness I could make you understand that cunning can only be met by cunning, not by thumps, in these degenerate days.
"Two rattling good thumps of an earthquake," said the Major, "would pitch Melbourne into the middle of Port Phillip, and bury all the gold far beyond the reach even of the Ballarat deep-sinkers. Come down and dine with me at the club."
A whisper of five-foot shafts speeding over the water a rapid-fire series of tiny impacts a couple of short groans the thumps of falling bodies and the Red Bone outpost was no more. Shot through and through by the deadly war arrows of the Mayorunas, they were dead before they struck the ground. And from the men of Monitaya sounded one short, subdued "Hah!" of savage satisfaction.
In some of her peculiar phases she even reckons as items of her illimitable knowledge selections from her "favorites" among the French romantics, or the realistic school may be more to her taste. She rolls up her eyes for Mozart and Beethoven and Gottschalk, but her heart thumps for Offenbach, Lamothe or Strauss.
"Ah, she would speak to a hero!" thumps his heart wildly. The singers raise their voices in unison. The music is irresistible. Again lunges the victor into the open arena. Again he leers into the captive's face. At every interval between the songs he returns to his resting-place. Here the young woman awaits him. As he approaches she smiles boldly into his eyes.
"Stoop! stoop!" shouted the Doctor. Benjamin did not understand what he meant, until his head struck against the beam with considerable force. "There," said the Doctor, laughing, "you are young, and have the world before you; stoop as you go through it, and you may miss many hard thumps." Nearly seventy years after, the recipient of this counsel wrote:
He jumped at once into the boat, and crept under Phil's feet, making a nice warm mat. "Poor Nep," said Phil, patting him, "he felt neglected"; and the big tail wagged thankful thumps against the boat. The morning air was sweet with all manner of herbage yet fresh from the morning dew. The trees were in their most brilliant green, and every leaf seemed newly washed.
Thereon a deep voice was heard speaking in some native tongue and saying: "Cease your snoring, you black dogs, and arouse yourselves, for your lord calls you," an invocation that was followed by the sound of kicks, thumps, and muttered curses.
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