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The half-voiced objection to the route had stirred all the sleeping devil in him, and the big stubby fingers crooked as if certain they would be called upon to grip Holman's throat. "You'll do what?" asked the youngster coolly. "I'll bundle you back to the yacht!" screamed the giant.
And soon after that, clad in their savage robes, they supped. They ate with their fingers and drank out of the bottles, sans apology. Strange were their speculations, their wonderings, their plans now discussed specifically, now half-voiced by a mere word that thrilled them both with sudden, poignant emotion. An so an hour passed, and the night deepened toward the birth of another day.
Then there are the plaintive singers, the soaring, ecstatic singers, the confident singers, the gushing and voluble singers, and the half-voiced, inarticulate singers. The note of the wood pewee is a human sigh; the chickadee has a call full of unspeakable tenderness and fidelity. There is pride in the song of the tanager, and vanity in that of the catbird.
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