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Jem was to do likewise, and thus linked together they would not be separated. All this took time, and during the brief moments that elapsed it was evident that the whole tribe was alarmed, and coming up to the pah. "All right, Mas' Don! I understand. It's follow my leader, and old `my pakeha' to lead."
In a flash the thought went through his listener: 'There it is! Ownerships! Well, we all own things. But human beings! Pah! "You have to look at facts," he said drily, "or rather the want of them." Soames gave him another quick suspicious look. "The want of them?" he said. "Yes, but I am not so sure." "I beg your pardon," replied Jolyon; "I've told you what she said. It was explicit."
Lambourne obeyed, and Varney, after rinsing his mouth with the liquor, drank a full cup, and said, as he took up a lamp to retreat to his sleeping apartment, "It is strange I am as little the slave of fancy as any one, yet I never speak for a few minutes with this fellow Alasco, but my mouth and lungs feel as if soiled with the fumes of calcined arsenic pah!" So saying, he left the apartment.
He would have a better view of the thing before he took to flight. No matter what it was, it could do no hurt at that distance; and as to overtaking him, pah! there wasn't a creature, biped or quadruped, in all Africa that he could not fling dust in the face of.
"They seem friendly enough, yet they eat one another. Pah!" Duff, at the tiller, laughed. Ben shook his head as he took a fresh quid. "Many of these coast tribes are cannibals I've heard," commented the mate. "In times of famine they eat the old folks and the girl babies. Queer world, isn't it?"
"After all my trouble. After our bargain." "I altered my mind," said Mr. Clarkson, with dignity. "Pah!" said the other. "Just in time," said Mr. Clarkson, speaking rapidly. "Another day and I believe I should ha' been too late. It took me pretty near an hour to talk her over. Said I'd been neglecting her, and all that sort of thing; said that she was beginning to think I didn't want her.
Similarly placed to that which he had helped to defend, Don could see upon a shoulder of the hill which ran up behind the whare, a great strongly made pah, ready for the tribe to enter should they be besieged by some enemy.
I think it was horrible, horrible. How can such dreadful things be? I have heard my father say that that very victory filled him with shame.... He led the storming party, and when the pah was carried, and he saw the natives escaping the men surrounding the women and children he ordered the 'Cease firing' to be sounded, but " and her voice faltered.
"I'll tell Miss Etching on you!" threatened Cora, still struggling. "Go ahead. And I'll tell her the things you've said down here every time the school crew is out. You have a funny kind of loyalty; haven't you, Cora? Pah!" "Mind your own business!" snapped Cora, but rubbing her elbows where Jennie had held them like a vise.
At this horrible forced-poetic portrait, Emilia cried in pain: "You hate her suddenly!" "I loathe the creature pah!" went Tracy. "Why do you make her so hideous?" Emilia complained. "I feel myself hating her too. Look at me. Am I such a thing as that?" "You!" Tracy was melted in a trice, and gave the motion of hugging, as a commentary on his private opinion.
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