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Henry Decherd hurried out into the darkness like some creature hard pursued. Number 4 swept on, clacking, rumbling, screaming. The shriek of her whistle, heard now and again, was loud, careless, imperious, self-assured. But what meant this hoarse and swiftly broken note, as though Number 4 were caught in sudden mortal fear?
The strength of the song falls on the second." Mr. Knightley grew angry. "That fellow," said he, indignantly, "thinks of nothing but shewing off his own voice. This must not be." And touching Miss Bates, who at that moment passed near "Miss Bates, are you mad, to let your niece sing herself hoarse in this manner? Go, and interfere. They have no mercy on her."
"Come here," commanded the other, still staring. The unsteady figure advanced. Halting beside the car, she leaned across the spare tires and gazed into the eyes of the driver. Their faces were not more than a foot apart, their eyes were narrowed in tense scrutiny. "What do you want?" repeated Mrs. Wrandall, her voice hoarse and tremulous. "I am looking for an inn. It must be near by. I do "
Rip scarcely whined now, but turning his head rapidly from one side to the other, with a motion that seemed to become merely mechanical, he made a hoarse noise that was like a terrified and distressed growl half strangled in his throat. But though he wavered against the door, he did not obey Valentine and go to him, and the doctor was conscious of a sudden thrill of joy in the dog's obstinacy.
It was dark by the time they drew near to Creekdale, and as the car rounded a bend in the road David was astonished at the sight which met his eyes. The entire way was brilliantly illuminated by hundreds of electric lights strung along both sides of the road. David started, sat bolt upright, and clutched his companion by the arm. "What is this?" he demanded in a hoarse whisper.
When his hoarse music ceased, the occasional snap of a bough, and movements among the bushes, told that the old man was still there, busy at his work. Euphrosyne wished that he would come out, within sight of the beckon of her hand. She dared not call, for fear of wakening her grandfather: but she very much wanted a flowering orange branch.
"To-morrow!" and he gave vent to a hoarse laugh. "I don't go through that experience again for some time, I warrant you!" "But after all," she expostulated in a trembling voice, "the mistake was not such a terrible thing! Now, dear Frank, when shall it be?" "Ah, when? God knows!" he said, with a light irony, and turning from her walked rapidly away.
"And may I ask what reason you can have to object?" "Reason?" His voice had grown hoarse with passion and surprise. "My God, how can you ask? How can you even face me? Why do you not sink down in shame? Alone here," he looked about him into the darkness, "at such an hour, in company with a Rebel, a sneaking, cowardly spy, already condemned to be shot.
It's a ship of some kind, and not very far-off. I can hear the water under her bows." "Far-off? no. Look!" cried Hilary, in a hoarse whisper. "Down with the helm! hard down!" he cried. "Hoist a light!"
Then, did the conviction burst upon me, that I had no prospect of escape no hope of being relieved; in short, that I was entombed alive! I cried, I screamed, I shouted. Long and loudly I cried, but how long I cannot tell. I did not leave off till I was weak and hoarse. At intervals I listened, but no response reached me no sound of human voice.
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