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"What! some as I chucked behind me?" "Yes." The scratching and tearing went on again, and I felt the sand scattered over me several times, but the fear did not attack me again. All at once there was a soft rushing noise, and Shock uttered a yell which seemed to make my heart leap. "Shock!" I cried, "Shock!" but there was no answer, only a scuffling noise. "Shock! where are you?"
From this point there was nothing in the way of hand-rail; so she kept close to the wall as she carried her basket up still higher. At the door of the back room she knocked. There was a sort of scuffling noise inside, and a few moments passed before it was opened. The sisters-in-law looked at each other in amazement.
At last a man looked over the gunnel, just as she was flying past us, and told us in Dutch to go to the devil. `I think you'll go there if you don't look sharp, replied Bill. `Come, my lads, we may as well follow, her, and see if we cannot prevent mischief. So we bore up after her, and hailed her several times, for we sailed very fast, and there was a scuffling on deck: I think that the captain was drunk.
But presently he was conscious of a more active movement in the hall, of the sounds of scuffling, of a high youthful voice saying "I won't" and "I shan't!" of the door opening to a momentary apparition of Miss Tish dragging a small hand and half of a small black-ribboned arm into the room, and her rapid disappearance again, apparently pulled back by the little hand and arm; of another and longer pause, of a whispered conference outside, and then the reappearance of Miss Tish majestically, reinforced and supported by the grim presence of her partner, Miss Prinkwell.
A knot of young men in a corner rattled their sticks vigorously. The older men had begun at any rate to look at the speaker. The boys on the back benches instinctively stopped scuffling. Then he threw himself into a sort of rapid question-and-answer. What were their wages? eleven shillings a week? "Not they!" cried a man from the middle of the chapel. "Yer mus' reckon it wet an' dry.
Those listening at the foot of the stairs heard the first gentle rap on the door, an outburst of profanity, followed almost instantly by a sharp snap, as if a lock had given way, then brief scuffling mingled with the loud creaking of a bed.
With a sigh Irving went forth to quell it. He determined that whatever happened he would not this time lose his temper; he would try to be persuasive and yet firm. The noise was in Allison’s room; the unfortunate Allison was again being persecuted. Loud whoops of laughter and the sound of vigorous scuffling, of tumbling chairs and pounding feet, came to Irving’s ears.
But after a moment of scuffling, he was again held securely. "Girl!" he shouted, "don't try to call out. Keep quiet." The Japanese in the tonneau appeared to understand the words, for he took his hand away from the girl's mouth, though he remained beside her, ready to put an end to any fresh outbreak. "Now," said Orme, turning his eyes on Arima, "what does this mean?"
Attached to a long pole it is carried out of the village, followed by a troop of young people of both sexes, who alternately frolic, lament, and sing songs. Arrived at its destination a field outside the village the figure is stripped of its clothes and ornaments; then the crowd rushes at it and tears it to bits, scuffling for the fragments.
At the foot his attention was again arrested by the faint scuffling sound. It ceased as suddenly as it had begun, leaving him wondering and conscious anew of a chill of apprehension. He had already made his plans for departure, but knew that they must leave evidence, when discovered, of his visit. A large and solid table stood near the divan, and he moved this immediately under the trap.
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