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'And the military holloaing for reinforcements, exclaimed Con. 'Pheu! Phil! 'That's what it comes to, was Philip's answer. 'Precautionary measures, eh? 'You can make them provocative. 'Will you beg for India? 'I shall hear in an hour. 'Have we got men? 'Always the question with us. 'What a country! sighed the captain.
"What else did he do?" she said. "You haven't told us all." "Not quite all," said Burke, and still his eyes searched hers with a probing intentness. "Don't you want to tell me?" she said. "Yes, I will tell you," he answered, "if you especially want to hear. He saved my life." "Hooray!" yelled Kelly, in the voice of one holloaing to hounds. Sylvia said nothing for a moment.
He had heard, as he thought, the tempter bidding him "Sell Christ;" now he thought he heard God "with a great voice, as it were, over his shoulder behind him," saying, "Return unto Me, for I have redeemed thee;" and though he felt that the voice mocked him, for he could not return, there was "no place of repentance" for him, and fled from it, it still pursued him, "holloaing after him, 'Return, return!" And return he did, but not all at once, or without many a fresh struggle.
"'Come on, Knapp! says I, and bundles out after them, holloaing like a regiment. One or two turned, and there was a bit of a barney. I stuck one chap, and was just going to stick another a fellow in blue jumping around in a queer kind of way when all of a sudden he gave a jab in the back to one of his own chaps.
'And the military holloaing for reinforcements, exclaimed Con. 'Pheu! Phil! 'That's what it comes to, was Philip's answer. 'Precautionary measures, eh? 'You can make them provocative. 'Will you beg for India? 'I shall hear in an hour. 'Have we got men? 'Always the question with us. 'What a country! sighed the captain.
Is it not like passing from the glare and vicarious holloaing of the street into a quiet, grave assembly of well-bred men, who are not afraid to let each other speak, and know how to make themselves heard without shouting; men who choose their words so well that they afford to speak without emphasis, and in whose speech you find neither neologisms, nor inversions, nor grammatical extravagances, nor calculated brutalities, nor affected ignorance, nor any faintest trace of pedantry?
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