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"Eh, man, that was a gran' fight, yon!" it hiccoughed, then relapsed into dignity and Hindustani. "What a battle we have had, sahib! What a victory we have won!" "We, indeed!" said Charteris, releasing himself with strong disgust. "General Desdichado, I suppose?" But the General, apparently unconscious of his momentary lapse of memory, was not responsive to English.
You you fellows are hiding the door! You are you are all jealous! Oh, yes! Such a shape and such eyes! You are jealous, hang you! Mr. Pomeroy leaned forward and leered at the tutor. 'Shall we let him go? he whispered. 'It will mend somebody's chance. What say you, Parson? You stand next. Make it six thousand instead of five, and I'll see to it. 'Let me go to her! my lord hiccoughed.
Pushed forward, the courtesan fell upon the young man's neck, almost bearing him to the street and overwhelming him with drunken caresses. A moment later he freed himself from her arms. "What is Roman beauty to our Capuan?" he hiccoughed. "Marcia Cluvia all are one. All are women, and we are Capuans; braver than Romans, wiser than Carthaginians.
Clink, clink again over the paving-stones, and the policeman took a turn towards the landing-stage. I sat there, with tears in my eyes, and hiccoughed for breath, quite beside myself with feverish merriment.
"They are under the trees on the ramparts within a few yards of us now! Three hundred of them! A word and you will feel their pikes in your breast! Listen to me!" But with a laugh of derision the drunken man cut him short. "Savoy here on the wall!" he hiccoughed. "And we on guard!" "It is so!" Claude urged. "Believe me, it is so! And we must be wary." "You lie, young man!
'Never mind, never mind, we are all right now, and no one need be the wiser, said Nan briskly, as poor Ted hiccoughed on Rob's shoulder, laughing and crying in the most tempestuous manner, while his brother soothed him, and the young doctor fanned both with Silas's old straw hat. 'Now, boys, listen to me and remember what I say.
The three men had halted at the table, and were clustered around her. They began a jocular quarrel amongst themselves as to who should dance with her. Her heart was pounding. She stood up, and pushed them away. "Oh, no, you don't!" hiccoughed one of the three. "Gotta see your hic! pretty face, anyhow!"
Once because they saw a made-up Central Office man in every lounging long-shoreman, and were not so far wrong either they halted at the street end of one of the smaller piers and from there watched a grimy little foreign boat that carried no wireless masts and that might have taken them to any one of half a dozen obscure banana ports of South America watched her while she hiccoughed out into midstream and straightened down the river for the open bay watched her out of sight and then fled again to their newest hiding place in the lower East Side in a cold sweat, with the feeling that every casual eye glance from every chance passer-by carried suspicion and recognition in its flash, that every briskening footstep on the pavement behind them meant pursuit.
Every hour, according to the doctor's orders, I gave baby the breast. I do not know which was my greatest joy to feast my eyes on her while she sucked and to see her little head fall back with her little mouth open when she had had enough, or to watch her when she stretched herself and hiccoughed, and then grasped my thumb with her little tight fingers. Oh, the wild, inexpressible delight of it!
"Now it's this way," he hiccoughed "I've got to go off to school but but I've thought of a plan to marry her first, with a bogus license and preacher." There was a whispered conversation among them, ending in a shout of applause. "What's the matter with you takin' yo' queen at the same time?" asked Jud of Travis.
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