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Yet, whatever happened, he and Boyd meant to go on, because they had a mission that was calling them all the time. The Captain at last said a few words, and Red Cloud, who had been motionless while he waited, took from under his blanket a pipe with a long curved stem. Will was surprised.
It was past two o'clock when the moon rose. I got up noiselessly, filled and lit my pipe, and sat staring at the great solemn bulk of the fortress, as it stood for the time being almost white in the moonlight against the monstrous shadow of the bills. My mind was in a miserable whirl, and I knew not what to make of anything.
"After this, the pipe was handed to a man on the right of the semi-circle. Another warrior took a lighted brand from the fire, and counted four coups, at the end of each coup touching the pipe bowl with the brand. When he had counted the fourth coup, the pipe was lighted.
"What were you doing?" she asked him, as he joined her. He met her look with a directness oddly disconcerting. "I was commemorating the occasion, he said. "What do you mean?" she said. "Never mind now!" said Burke, and took out his pipe. The light still lingered in his eyes, firing her to something deeper than curiosity. She turned her horse abruptly. "I am going back to see for myself."
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They were moved by a power which they did not understand to keep step with the music of the pipe. On and on they marched on and on. They passed through silent forests and across beautiful plains, up gentle hills and through sheltered fells. And the melody of the piper became so strongly accented that they could not help keeping step, even if they had wished not to do so.
He devoted himself doggedly to the filling of his pipe. "Nothing." "On your word of honor, as a gentleman?" "On my word of honor, as a gentleman." He put back his tobacco-pouch in his pocket. His handsome face was as hard as stone. His clear blue eyes defied all the girls in England put together to see into his mind.
"Not for a damned beach-comber," said the officer, turning on his heel. Jack did not attempt to follow or to pester him. He knew when he was beat. He sat down on the nearest log, and making room for Fetuao beside him, drew out his pipe, filled it and began to smoke. The girl tried to speak to him, but he would not answer.
Taking a match from his waistcoat pocket and lighting a long clay pipe, he spoke: Along in the fifties I was cabin-boy on the whaling-ship Nimrod, Alarson Coffin, master. We were cruising on the coast of Brazil when, one day, the lookout, stationed at the masthead, reported a large school of sperm-whales off our lee-beam.
1 NORTH AUDLEY STREET, April 15. "Slip on, for Time's Time!" said a man, coming forth with a pipe in his mouth from an inn door, exhorting men and horses of railroad omnibus. "Slip on, Time's Time!" I have been saying to myself continually; and now I am coming to the last gasp, and Time slips so fast, that Time is not Time in fact, there's no Time.
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