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Wouldn't you like to hear it?" "I can't see what good that would do," she said, with some relenting toward a smile, in which he instantly prepared himself to bask. "But you will when I've done it. Now listen!" "Please don't go on." She cut him short with a return to her severity, which he would not recognise. "Well, perhaps I'd better not," he consented.
"Eyah! that's ut," whispered the sergeant, "now thin Lanky du yu' shtay right here wid th' harses. Kape yu're head even if ye du hear shootin'. Du not shtir from here onless ye get ordhers from wan av us." Turning to the others he continued in a sibilant hiss, "Yu, Reddy, shlip along th' edge av th' brush here, an' over th' river-bank onto th' shingle.
She lifted her head up a little and asked, 'How long do yo' think she was unconscious, doctor? Could she hear things, think yo', afore she fell into that strange kind o' slumber? 'I cannot tell, said he, shaking his head. 'Was she breathing in that hard snoring kind of way when you left her this morning? 'Yes, I think so; I cannot tell, so much has happened.
She seemed to feel rather than hear his presence, and she inquired softly: "Who's it, Bles?" "The mother of God," he answered reverently. "And why does she hold a lily?" "It stands for purity she was a good woman." "With a baby," Zora added slowly. "Yes " said Bles, and then more quickly "It is the Christ Child God's baby." "God is the father of all the little babies, ain't He, Bles?"
If I could so clothe my ideas in sounding and flowing words, I might perhaps wish to have some one with me to admire the swelling theme; or I could be more content, were it possible for me still to hear his echoing voice in the woods of All-Foxden.
On approaching their lines, the steady tramp of which he could hear, he fell rapidly in the rear, where, true to their instincts, he found Black Jack and Wilson following in the team of the latter at a respectable distance, and anxiously waiting for the first volley that should give intimation that an engagement had commenced.
"I have heard no news," I replied, but seeing that the Judge was in earnest asked to what news he referred. Judge McArthur then told me in a few excited words of the outbreak of the Bannocks, declaring that in all probability the Indians would reach my section before I could get there. I waited to hear no more, and running across the street to the livery stable ordered my team harnessed.
In the public utterances I hear much of punishing and hanging leading traitors, fierce demands for vengeance, and threats of the summary chastisement of domestic sympathizers with treason, but comparatively little is said of the accursed cause, the prolific mother of abominations, slavery.
Like enough someone will be on the watch at the house, so we had best make a long detour, and when we get near it come down on it from the other side. You know we saw no windows there." "That is all well enough," Lionel agreed; "but the question is, how are we to hear what they are saying inside?
"But I'm very glad to hear of you now, Jim," said Brant, smiling, "and from your own lips which I am also delighted to find," he added mischievously, "are still as frankly communicative on that topic as of old. But I congratulate you, old fellow, on your good fortune. When did you leave the stage?" Mr. Hooker frowned slightly.
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