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Mawg was sitting on the next branch, a good spear's length distant, and glowering at A-ya's lithe shapeliness with eyes of savage greed. Grôm knit his brows, and significantly passed an arm about the girl's shoulders. Mawg shifted his attention to him. "What do you want of me?" he demanded, in a thick, guttural voice. "I thought you ran as if you did not want the lions to eat you," answered Grôm.
"Says the whale to the swordfish," suggested Fullalove, with a little guttural laugh. The captain, with the American glass at his eye, turned half round to the man at the wheel: "Starboard!" "Starboard it is." "Steer south-south-east" "Ay, ay, sir." And the ship's course was thus altered two points. This order lowered Dodd fifty per cent. in Mr. Sharpe's estimation.
But Le Borgne only laughed the harder, deep, guttural, contemptuous "huh-huh's!" a fitting rebuke, methought, for the ignoble deception implied in M. Radisson's words.
"Ah, our friend Fischer!" the latter exclaimed. "That makes our number complete." A waiter handed around cocktails. Fischer smiled as he raised his glass to his lips. "It is something, at least," he confided, "to be back in a country where one can speak freely. I raise my arm. Von Schwerin and gentlemen 'To the Fatherland!" They all drank fervently and with a little guttural murmur.
The two agonized fugitives lay listening, their ears strained to catch the slightest sound from below. The faint radiance of a single star glimmered along the bald front of the cliff, but Hampton, peering cautiously across the edge, could distinguish nothing. His ears could discern evidences of movement, and he heard guttural voices calling at a distance, but to the vision all was black.
"You can do anything with him," she said presently. "I wish I could." Jernington protested with guttural exclamations. "He's killing himself," she resumed. "And I have to sit by and see it, and say nothing." "Killing himself!" Jernington, who believed in women, was shocked. "With overwork. He's on the verge of a complete breakdown. And it's you, Mr. Jernington, it's all you!"
"If he does pull through it will only be because he's a redskin and as tough as all creation," added the old frontiersman. In his guttural tongue the redskin appealed to Dan for a drink of water. "Certainly, I'll give you a drink," answered the boy, kindly, and went out to get some water that was cool.
The song keeps its dragging slowness; but the accompaniment, becoming more and more accentuated, is like the impetuous sound of a far-off hurricane. At the end, when these girlish voices, usually so soft, give out their hoarse and guttural notes, Chrysantheme's hands fly wildly and convulsively over the quivering strings.
You'll have heard of that settlement? "I said 'Yes, and an odd guttural laugh broke from some of the men. "'Well, mister, continued the man Swallow, 'Norfolk Island was a destination that didn't accord with our views. And what more d' ye want me to say? Here we are, and we want our liberty, and we mean to get it without any risk, and you're the man to help us.
Their language is extremely guttural, and not pleasant at first, but improves as you hear it more; and it is said to have considerable capacity. They use a good deal of gesticulation, and are exceedingly animated, saying with their might what their tongues find to say. They are complete water-dogs, and therefore very good in boating.
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