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"I shall hold you until you are quiet. Be still! no more! be still!" "You hurt me!" whispered the girl. The wild laughter had died away, but she was still shaking, and the tears were running down her cheeks. "I mean to hurt you. I shall hurt you more, if you are not quiet. As soon as you are quiet I will let you go. Be still still there!" He loosed her hands, and took up the paddle again.
This paddle served both to propel and to steer the bancas. More than once he was embarrassed when he caught Maria Clara looking at him. Then he would turn his eyes quickly to some other direction and look far off toward the mountain, or the shore of the lake. The young maiden pitied him in his solitude and offered him some biscuits. The pilot looked at her with surprise, but only for a moment.
Even the oars had not been removed. They got another from the boat alongside to supply the place of the one which had been splintered. "Cut the warps," cried Bill. "We'll paddle on till we find the breeze." The raft was quickly cast loose, and, getting out the oars, they began to paddle silently down the harbour.
"Great guns!" exclaimed the unfortunate author at the finish. "Great guns!" But Geraldine said nothing. She only closed the magazine and pushed it under the pillow out of sight. There was a long silence. A first star appeared and threw a wavering trail on the lake. Jimmie, dipping his paddle mechanically, turned the Peterboro into this pale pathway. The pride and elation had gone out of his face.
As often as he found his body swinging to the song, so often did he sternly check himself and resolutely set another air going in his head, only to find himself in a short space swinging along again to the old song to which he and his brother had so often made their canoe slip in those great days that now seemed so far away. "En roulant ma boule," sang his paddle in spite of all he could do.
Tim O'Rooney made a great deal of splashing, occasionally flirting a shower of spray over his friends as the paddle took an unexpected twist in his hand; but, as we have said before, he had had considerable experience in propelling a canoe, and he gave a little assistance to their dusky friend.
With these they either punt or paddle, according to the shallowness or depth of the water. When they perceive the antelopes beginning to move they increase their speed, and pursue them with great velocity.
We saw also that we were observed from the huts, a large canoe being apparently kept ready to make chase should we attempt to paddle off. After a little time, we ate the provisions we had brought with us, turning our backs towards the shore as we did so, for fear our masters might observe it. We were already beginning to practise some of the arts of slaves.
The animal re-appearing after some time, all the canoes again paddle towards him, some warning being given by the seal-skin buoy floating on the surface. Each man being furnished like the first, they repeat the blows as often as they find opportunity, till perhaps every line has been thus employed.
Slap-slap! went her paddle; the sud-spume flew like shreds of cotton; iridescent foam set with bubbles swirled in the stone-edged basin, constantly swept away down stream by the current, constantly renewed as she soaped and scrubbed, kneeling there in the meadow grass above the pool.
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