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"Cut loose those boats!" bellowed the frantic gun-runner. Then he repeated the command, apparently in Spanish. And to this came an answering babel of cries and expostulations and counter-cries. But still the firing from behind the searchlight kept up. Blake could see a half-naked seaman with a carpenter's ax skip monkey-like down the landing-ladder.
"Out with him!... No!... Throw him out!" came yells from the floor. The house was on its feet, jostling, surging. Men near to Bonbright hesitated. One man reached over the shoulders of his fellows and struck at Bonbright. Another shoved him back. "Let him talk.... Let's hear him," arose counter-cries. The meeting threatened to get beyond control, to become a mob.
Cries of triumph rose among the adherents of the north, met by counter-cries of defiance from the south. At the next turn Delamayn resolutely lessened the distance between his antagonist and himself. At the opening of the fourteenth round, they were coming sid e by side. A few yards more, and Delamayn was in front again, amidst a roar of applause from the whole public voice.
Cease making yourselves drunk with words and waving your Vedic flags and stand by the British your true friends " At that, cries and counter-cries drowned his voice. The Sikh laughed in the face of their opposition. Dexterously catching a book, he hurled it back; and once more made his strong voice heard above the clamour. "Fools and sheep! You may stop your ears now.
Even to-day the masses of the Negroes see all too clearly the anomalies of their position and the moral crookedness of yours. You may marshal strong indictments against them, but their counter-cries, lacking though they be in formal logic, have burning truths within them which you may not wholly ignore, O Southern Gentlemen! If you deplore their presence here, they ask, Who brought us?
"What is it?" were the wild counter-cries. "The man! The girl! The children! Where are they?" "What? Which? The Lebeau family? They are here with us." "Where?" Where, indeed? To a call to them from Roger there came no answer, nor did a hasty search result in finding them the old man, the two boys, and the girl carrying the bundle of clothes had vanished into the night.
Even to-day the masses of the Negroes see all too clearly the anomalies of their position and the moral crookedness of yours. You may marshal strong indictments against them, but their counter-cries, lacking though they be in formal logic, have burning truths within them which you may not wholly ignore, O Southern Gentlemen! If you deplore their presence here, they ask, Who brought us?
The wings flagged, he fell into the jungle of words. His body turned upon the steps. The caves and dens of his being began to echo with cries and counter-cries. Hurt? Had she not been hurt at all? But she was hurt poisoned, ruined, drawn to death! Had she long and wide and living power to heal her own harm? Still was it not there he would have it there! Ian Rullock!
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