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Meanwhile Kajo had recovered slightly, and was allowed to sit up, though his hands were still bound. "Now we'll try him. Launch the boat, boys," said Okiok, "and be ready to paddle." The young men did as they were bid, and Okiok, unloosening Kajo's bonds, asked him if he could manage his kayak. "O-of c-course I can," replied the man, somewhat indignantly.
And the little rosy boys tried to let it, squeaking wrong notes with all their might and main, and fixing their eyes upon Lord Reggie and his carnation, rather than upon their sheets of music. "Thy lips are like a thread, like a thre-eda o-of scar-let, and thy speech, thy spee-eech i-is come-ly," they squealed at the top of their village voices, strong in the possession of complete unmusicalness.
These young, intensely vibrant bass and tenor voices sang all round him, they sang at him and into him and through him. There was a young man close behind him with a tenor voice that pierced him like a pain. There was Wauchope at his right ear thundering in a tremendous barytone. First of all it was a trumpet call that shook him. /P "Sold-ier-ers o-of Christ! a-arise, And put your armor on," P/
sang Wauchope. The sound of that singing made Ransome feel noble; and there is nothing more insidiously destructive than feeling noble. And then, later on, it was a strange and a more poignant cry that melted him, so that his very soul dissolved in tenderness and yearning. /P "Jesu, Lover o-of my soul," P/ sang the young man with the tenor.
"Exactly how much thrust is being exerted on that point?" he asked. The computer reeled off a string of numbers so fast that he missed them, and was still going into the far decimal places when Mike said: "Whoa! Approximate number of pounds, please." "A-approximately six hundred forty. You-u didn't specify the limits o-of a-accuracy tha-at you-u wanted." The burred tone was still complacent.
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