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The careless, high-pitched answer brought the boy with wide eyes to the door. "Whut d'ye hear?" asked Gabe. "Jes heerd fightin' 's goin' on!" Then every man who came for his meal brought a wild rumor from town, and the old miller moved his chair to the door, and sat there whittling fast, and looking anxiously toward Hazlan.
As Judith and Sylvia came near, several ran to meet them, hurling out at them like a hard-flung stone: "Say what d'ye think? Those Fingál girls are niggers!" To the end of her life, Sylvia would never forget the rending shock of disillusion brought her by these blunt words. She did not dream of disbelieving them, or of underestimating their significance.
Capt'n, a gun, d'ye hear! Hay Hay-H. Out oars, there! A gun!" Hoarse in excitement Jones shook the old man and called at his ear. "Aye, aye, b'ye. Aye, aye," said the broken old man, seeming without understanding. Jones ceased trying to rouse him, and, running out the steering oar, called on us to haul the sea-anchor aboard. We lay to our oars, listening for a further gunfire.
"What is to be done?" he asked, "Shall I go for the doctor?" Priscilla shook her head. "The doctor would be no use," she answered "She's just fairly worn out and wants rest. Her little room is ready, I've kept it aired, and the bed made warm and cosy ever since she went away lest she should ever come back sudden like... could you carry her up, d'ye think?
The other was dark, bronzed by foreign travel, perhaps, with black hair, cut very close to an intelligent-looking head, bared to the evening breeze. 'Hulloa! cried Maulevrier. 'There's Molly. How d'ye do, old girl? The two men looked up, and Molly looked down.
"Well, lad, so you're chained to my wherry for two or three years; and I'm to initiate you into all the rules and regulations of the company. Now, I'll tell you one thing, which is, d'ye see, when the river's covered with ice, as it is just now, haul your wherry up high and dry, and smoke your pipe till the river is clear, as I do now."
As for my own share, d'ye see, I am none of those that hallo in their own commendation: but if so be that I were minded to stand my own trumpeter, some of those little fellows that hold their heads so high would be taken all aback, as the saying is: they would be ashamed to show their colours, d my eyes!
"What d'ye think we're taking off the kites for?" he growled. I looked aloft. The skysails were already furled; men were furling the royals; and the topgallant-yards were running down while clewlines and buntlines bagged the canvas. Yet, if anything, our northerly breeze fanned even more gently. "Bless me if I can see any weather," I said.
That's one of the owners!" he said. "I'm going!" We, too, made for the door, and had almost attained it when a heavy hand fell upon the shoulder of Hawkins. "You're the man I'm looking for!" said the hard, angry tones of the proprietor. "You come back with me! D'ye know what you've done? Hey? D'ye know that you've ruined that elevator shaft?
He was a little dazzled by the lights at first, but soon distinguished Sir Charles, and his large countenance beamed with simple and affectionate satisfaction. "How d'ye do, Moss?" said Sir Charles. "Pretty well, thank ye, sir, in my body, but uneasy in my mind. There be a trifle too many rogues afoot to please me.
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