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The result of this conversation naturally turned Philip's thoughts to the relic, and he went into his mother's room to take possession of it. He opened the curtains the corpse was laid out he put forth his hand to untie the black ribbon. It was not there. "Gone!" exclaimed Philip. "They hardly would have removed it never would.
Do you really think it possible for a fellow to untie those two?" "Quite possible," said the Colonel. "Walter," said he, sententiously, "there's a little word in the English language which is one of the biggest. I will spell it to you, T R Y. Nobody knows what he can do till he gives that word a fair trial.
"He never'll untie it, Polly," said Ben; "that's just like a girl's knots!" "Why didn't you tie it then?" said Polly; "I'm sure it's as good as a boy's knots, and they always muss up a parcel so." And she gave a loving, approving little pat to the top of the package, which, despite its multitude of knots, was certainly very neat indeed. Ben, grasping the pen again, "here goes for the direction.
Sir Ralph ordered the boxes to be brought in. "They are light enough," he said, "and I should judge from their weight that they contain papers of some sort. Open yours first, Albert." They were fastened by three skeins of silk, the Fleming's seal being affixed to the knots. "Cut them, Albert!" Aline exclaimed, as her brother proceeded to break the seals and untie the knots.
You will, therefore, do well to untie my hands, and let me distribute amongst you the blessed antidote, by means of which, with God's assistance, we may be able to prevent this terrible calamity." Thomas Bodza felt something of the paralysis of extreme terror when he saw the impression made by these words upon the mob, which evidently already began to waver.
Now, how would you tie a knot if you was doing up a parcel?" We both tried, and both made granny knots, with the ends sticking out at right angles to the rest of the yarn. "Wrong," he said. "Those are grannies. They would jam so that you'd never untie 'em, besides being ugly. There's wrong ways even in doing up a string. See here." He rapidly twisted the ends together into a reef-knot.
This morning his customers might wait for their milk, for all business must give way before such an important piece of sightseeing as this. I had barely time to untie the young man and take him to the back of the house before the officers and their followers had entered the front door.
His eyes were staring, his eyelids twitched, his hands shook. I recognized the symptoms. "Have you got it? Have you got it with you?" he whispered, feverishly. "It's all right. I can fix you up. Untie me first," I replied. He began to fumble with the knots of my bonds too hastily and impatiently for effectiveness.
But, involuntarily, his mild blue eyes wandered back lovingly to the long piece of string, on which his playful imagination no doubt already saw a series of knots which would be equally tantalising to tie and to untie. "Tell me about the theft at the English Provident Bank," suggested Polly condescendingly.
As the train approached her station the young lady, hailing the conductor, asked: "Is my dog all right?" "I don't know, miss," replied the conductor. "Don't know?" she replied. "Why don't you know? It's your business to know. You haven't touched him or untied him?" "No; we didn't touch or untie him, and that's just it. You tied him to a trunk checked for two stations back.
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