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Hah! you not only bring the enmity of the whole Indian race down on your own worthless head, and on the heads of your innocent companions, but you have the effrontery to bring the evidence of your guilt into this fort along with you." As McLeod spoke, he laid hold of a scalp which still dropped fresh blood as it hung at the hunter's saddle-bow.
A whisper of five-foot shafts speeding over the water a rapid-fire series of tiny impacts a couple of short groans the thumps of falling bodies and the Red Bone outpost was no more. Shot through and through by the deadly war arrows of the Mayorunas, they were dead before they struck the ground. And from the men of Monitaya sounded one short, subdued "Hah!" of savage satisfaction.
"They're giving it up, Samson; they're retiring." "No, sir; only carrying some of the hurt ones out of the fight. There goes another ladder up two. Hah! look at that!"
At last the salmon made a rush, and was swept over a shallow part of the rapid, close under the bank on which the girls stood. Here Alric succeeded in thrusting it against a large stone. For the first time he managed to stand up erect, and, although holding the fish with all his might, looked up, and breathed, or rather gasped, freely: "Hoch! hah! what a fish! sk-ho!"
He made the two sounds again, and burst into another uncontrollable fit of laughter at the success of his ruse; but this time Don caught him by the throat, and he stopped at once. "Hah!" he ejaculated, and wiped his eyes again. "Thankye, Mas' Don; that's just what you ought to ha' done before. There, it's all over now. What are you going to do?"
Hah, yes! ... But not a man of spirit? Have I ever allowed the toe of pride to be lifted against my hinder parts without groaning manfully that I question the right to do so? I inquire that query boldly?" "We can't say that you have, Hero Poorgrass," admitted Jan. "Never have I allowed such treatment to pass unquestioned!
"Yes, Captain Carse, I hear you. I felt the vibrations of the explosion that occurred a minute ago." "Hah!" grunted Friday, immediately relieved. "All bluff, suh! No damage to 'em at all!" Carse asked quickly into the grille: "You felt the explosion, but do you know what it meant? what it did?"
He will come of his own accord when he is not even called, he will use all kinds of impudent words, remarks, allegories, the meaning of which will be clear to everybody; he will even go so far as to come and ask why he has not been arrested as yet hah! hah! And such a line of conduct may occur to a person of keen intellect, yes, even to a man of psychologic mind!
If he called to Peter to fetch the ladder, the boy would wait till the groom was gone, and slip over the wall, drop, and escape that way. That would not do either. Hah! There was the labourer. He could call him. It was past twelve, and he had gone to his dinner, Dan'l, like Peter, taking his at the more aristocratic hour of one. Dan'l was in a fix.
"I must have misunderstood." She meditated. "It sounds awfully like Papa. He simply can't believe, poor thing, that I'd stick to anything so respectable." "Hah!" He laughed out his contempt for the Vicar. He had forgotten that he too had wondered. "Chuck it, Gwenda," he said, "chuck it." "I can't," she said. "Not yet. It's too lucrative." "But if it makes you seedy?" "It doesn't. It won't.
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