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Kincaid is my friend," he hissed. "Understand that? He's my best friend. If you ever say anything about this afternoon " "Let go!" cried Johnny struggling. "You hurt! You needn't get mad about it. He's my friend, too. I ain't going to say anything." Bobby released his arm. "He must have done it, though," concluded Johnny. "Of course he did it. I'd have done it. Pritchard was an old beast.
They heaved up the door till it stood straight up, and, as they bent to look into the hole below, the door fell back with a hollow clang on the leads behind, and with its noise was mingled a blood-curdling scream from underneath. 'Discovered! hissed Robert. 'Oh, my cats alive! They were indeed discovered. They found themselves looking down into an attic, which was also a lumber-room.
"I do," said the sergeant. "Doesn't it stand to reason that it can't be anything else? You saw it yourself." Shawn plumped down on his knees before his captive. "Tell me where the money is?" he hissed. "Tell me where the money is or I'll twist your neck off." The other men also gathered eagerly around, shouting threats and commands at the Leprecaun. "Hold your whist," said Shawn fiercely to them.
Meantime, some of the crew whispered among themselves in applause of their ship-mate's nerve; but the greater part were breathlessly silent as the keen scourge hissed through the wintry air, and fell with a cutting, wiry sound upon the mark. One dozen lashes being applied, the man was taken down, and went among the crew with a smile, saying, "D n me! it's nothing when you're used to it!
Hogarth, meantime, was striding about the elm, and once fell to his knees, adoring a vision, and once, at a fancied step, his teeth- edges chattered. Rebekah! He called, groaned, hissed that name, while his to-and-fro ranging quickened to a trot.
Also, he soon became aware that Miss Boke's powerful "guiding" was observed by the public; for, after one collision, more severe than others, a low voice hissed in his ear: "SHE WON'T HURT YOU MUCH, SILLY BILL. SHE'S ONLY IN FUN!" This voice belonged to the dancer with whom he had just been in painful contact, Johnnie Watson.
He was as honest and manly, perhaps I may say as sympathetic with the feeling of those about him, on this occasion, as was Charles Lamb, who, sitting with his sister in the front of the pit, on the night when his farce was damned at its first representation, gave way to the common feeling, and hissed and hooted lustily with the others around him.
Can you fancy the catcall music beginning, and the pit hissing at that perilous part of the fourth act, where my executioner comes out from the closet with his great sword, at the awful moment when he is called upon to amputate? They say Mr. Fielding, when the pit hissed at a part of one of his pieces, about which Mr.
They rose from the table without leaving the customary nickel for the waitress and, as they passed out of the door, she glared after them and indignantly adjusted her pompadour with both hands. "Pipe them two high-livers," she hissed to the waitress at the next table. "I knew them guys was going to pass me up as soon as I laid me eyes on 'em." She heaved a tremendous sigh.
"They're thar," said Wetzel grimly. "How far from here?" "A half-hour's slow crawl." "Close by?" hissed Jonathan. "Too near fer you to get excited." "Let us go; it's as light now as in the gray of mornin'." "Mornin' would be best. Injuns get sleepy along towards day. I've ever found thet time the best. But we'll be lucky if we ketch these redskins asleep." "Lew, I can't wait here all night.
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