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And then there came the Captain was really not surprised, he had been almost expecting it a mew, a peevish, plaintive mew. "I won't open that door," said the Captain. The complaint was repeated. "Poor beast!" murmured the Captain. "Shut up in that in that deuce take it, in that what?" His hand shot up to the top bolt and pressed it softly back. "No, no," said he.

Out in the desert there was only the life-giving air, the opal sands, the plaintive evening sky, the eager morning breeze, the desolated villages, and now and then in the vast expanse, stretching hundreds and hundreds of miles south, an oasis as a gem set in a cloth of faded gold. It would have seemed to any natural man better to die in the desert than to live in Omdurman.

"The thief apologizes to the thief?" "Unkind!" Briefly hesitant, with an impulsive gesture she flung out a generous hand. "You're right; I was unkind. Forgive me. Won't you shake hands? I ... I do want to be a good comrade, since it has pleased Fate to throw us together like this, so so oddly." Her tone was almost plaintive; unquestionably it was appealing.

Kate raised herself higher on her elbow and called sharply: "Bowers?" A sleepy response came from somewhere. "It's daylight hurry!" Bowers's voice, plaintive but stronger, answered: "I'd be ten pounds heavier if it wasn't for that word 'hurry." Kate smiled faintly.

It was brilliant, bewildering; but the dazzle was like the frozen glitter of an icicle. Suddenly, a look of unmitigated scorn swept across her face, and the music ceased. She eyed Dupleisis for a moment half defiantly, and asked, "Would you really like to hear me sing?" Dupleisis answered, earnestly, "Yes." A plaintive prelude followed, and her voice mingled with it almost imperceptibly.

Only the skipper was saved alive. And he " "What of him?" "He went what the people here call 'silly' from the shock not directly. It came on him gradually. He would not leave the island. He would never trust the sea again." "So he's here still?" "Yes." Just then the two plaintive bells of the church began to ring on the wind. "There he is!" Uniacke said. "Where?" "He's our bell-ringer.

All this time the chestnuts and the jug went round and round; and by-and-by they had a song, about a lost child travelling in the snow, from Tiny Tim, who had a plaintive little voice, and sang it very well indeed. There was nothing of high mark in this.

However, upon learning from an attendant that the young girl was resting quietly and apparently not ill, she had not herself personally visited her, but concluded to wait until morning. Once, twice, thrice, just as the Priestess had, as it were, passed the border-land of sleep the pale face, with its pleading eyes and plaintive cry, had started her back to vivid consciousness.

The men were watching a white fleet of bird boats paddling on the sea, hurrying this way and that, struggling with many a plunge and flutter and plaintive cry for the food a retreating tide was bearing from the shore. "'White spirits and gray, I call them," said the younger of the two spectators. "The gulls fascinate me always. They are beautiful to see and hear and paint.

For Kate’s letter had had its desired effect. All her wrongdoings, her crowning outrage of his noble intentions, had been forgotten in the one little plaintive appeal she had managed to breathe in a minor wail throughout that treacherous letter, treacherous alike to her husband and to her lover.