So came these young esquires beside Sir Gui who, tapping the dust from his habit with soft white hand, spake soft-voiced and sweet.

A woman, wailing, fled from the chamber, a chair crashed to the floor; came a strange, quick tapping of feet upon the floor and thereafter rose a cry that swelled louder to a screamlouder to a bubbling shriek, and dying to a groaning hiss, was gone.

First two of the younger women move from the corner, one of them with eyes half- closed and preserving a curious rigidity of body even while her feet are rythmically tapping the floor: then two more join and so on, until the circumference of the dancing-circle is expanded as far as the size of the room will allow and not a single woman is left on the china matting.

"Depend upon it, we'll hear from this chap again," said the inspector, tapping the sheet of paper with a finger.

" "Bah!" cried Mademoiselle, tapping her foot on the floor, and oddly enough my reply seemed to have made her angry, "So you are like all the rest of them, stupid, narrow, calculating!"

Gently tapping on the glass, he got the attention of the editor, the very man he wanted, and, in pantomime, gave him to understand that his presence was requested.

"Onward, Christian Soldiers," he sang, tapping the rhythm on the drum.

He was tapping at his cigarette-case as they came to their taxi.

"I want to explain everything to you, Gloria" "It will take a good deal of explaining, won't it, Mr. Gratton?" They went into the living-room and Gloria sat in a big chair while he stood before her, his fingers tapping and tapping at his cigarette-case.

"I want to explain everything to you, Gloria" "It will take a good deal of explaining, won't it, Mr. Gratton?" They went into the living-room and Gloria sat in a big chair while he stood before her, his fingers tapping and tapping at his cigarette-case.

He stood looking after her, tapping and tapping at his cigarette-case.

He stood looking after her, tapping and tapping at his cigarette-case.

He uttered a private but heartfelt "Damn!" and bowed profoundly as the woman, tapping Athenais on the arm with a fan crusted with diamonds, demanded: "Present instantly, my dear, this gentleman who tangoes as I have never seen the tango danced before!" Forestalling Athenais, Lanyard replied with a whimsical grimace: "Is one, then, so unfortunate as to have been forgotten by Madame la Comtesse de Lorgnes?"

" A noise of light footsteps muffled by a rug, high heels tapping on uncovered floor, the scrape of a drawer pulled out: and she returned to give him a little nickelled electric torch.

Dupont, the road to Paris, seemed figments of some dream dreamed long ago... The tip of a pretty slipper, tapping restlessly, continued to betray Liane's temper.

West emptied all the shelves, and then after a pause took out his pocket knife and began tapping with its end the steel sides of the cupboard.

That night, near midnight, Robert was awakened from a sound sleep by some one tapping on his window lattice.

He rose, at first hardly able to believe his senses; but the moon was shining quite brightly, and he distinctly saw the outline of a man standing outside his window, and there came a tapping unquestionably intended to wake him.

" "If he does talk, I'll stop him pretty sudden," said Lowrie, tapping his holster significantly.

There was a heavy tapping on the door itself.

The girl went away silently, abashed, and the Princess sat quite still, tapping the brush against the table.

The widow, who was reading in the dining-room, heard the tapping at the glass.

No sooner was she back in the dining-room than the tapping at the pane was resumed.

" Now, the widow was less afraid of something bodily, like burglars, than she was of "spirits," so she resolved the next time she heard the queer tapping to run out and call for help.

A slow and cautious step, accompanied with the tapping of a stick upon the stone flags of the floor, is audible along the narrow passage leading from the sala to Pipa's room.