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And when she arose from the table she was far hungrier than when she sat down. She had scarcely eaten a good solid mouthful. Oh, it was so hard to act out such a falsehood as handsome Harry had prevailed upon her to do.
Her conscience was rarely worsted; still there was a taint of dishonesty in her soul, else had the stairs been less of an ethical battleground for her. Lancelot's advent only made her hungrier; somehow the thought of nibbling at his provisions was too sacrilegious to be entertained.
Everybody was eating it, when by a common consciousness they were aware of alien witnesses. They looked up as by a single impulse, and saw at the port the gaunt face of a steerage passenger staring down upon their luxury; he held on his arm a child that shared his regard with yet hungrier eyes.
What power of self-sacrifice is displayed by these poor people, whom sometimes in our wicked moods we are disposed to despise; what readiness to share the last crust with those who are, I will not say hungry, but hungrier!
"Anyways she's a nice girl, I don't care where she abides, so to speak. An' me an' these other boys," with a sweeping glance at the four of his recent male passengers, "is hungrier than wolves. How about it, Poke? Late hours, but considerin' the kind of night the devil's dealin' we're lucky to be here a-tall. I could eat the hind leg off a ten year ol' steer."
They will not understand. Instead of returning to their teepees, their nets, and their traplines, they will hang about your post, growing gaunter and hungrier with the passing of the days. And the hunger that gnaws at their bellies will arouse the latent lawlessness of their hearts, and then if MacNair has not already struck, he will strike then.
The others obeyed, stumbling over stones, tripping over roots, and running against stumps and briars; but they kept along cheerfully, believing that they would soon reach the road where it would not be so dark. "I wish I had a piece of that cake that Uncle Braun bought for us the day we went to the tower," remarked Fritz. "Oh, don't speak of it! It makes me hungrier than ever," said Paul.
"But how many of us do you think he would kill?" said another mouse. "I will not risk my life nor that of my family." "Nor I"; "nor I"; "nor I," said many other mice. "Let us steal his food and starve him to death," suggested another. "That will only make him hungrier for mice," they replied. "That will never do."
"He's ten times worse. Whenever he meets the gray wolf he tears him to smithereens. You never seen a wolf of any kind that wasn't as hungry as you younkers was yesterday." "He couldn't be any hungrier," said Fred, with a laugh. "I have knowed one of them critters to foller a steamboat down the upper Missouri fur two days and nights, howling and watching fur a chance to git something to eat."
Come right over to the fire!" herself leading the way. "And hungry I'll bet you're hungrier than a wolf!" The lad nodded. "Yes, ma'am." The woman straightened up and looked down at her charge. "Of course you are. All little boys are hungry." She cast a challenging glance around the group of interested spectators.
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