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"Good morning!" said Carmichael. "Herr Carmichael?" surprised. "Your excellency?" "Yes. I've been having a little junket, I and my friend here." And Carmichael winked. "Ah!" "But what " "Sh! Very important affair," said the disguised officer. "Go on." But after the carriage had passed it occurred to him that Carmichael wore a dress like a vintner's and that his friend was a mountaineer!
Yan had a big stick in his hand. He shouted: "Sh, sh, sh!" Again the "corpse" moved. Yan groped on the road for some stones and sent one straight at the "white thing." He heard a "whooff" and a rush. The "white thing" sprang up and ran past him with a clatter that told him he had been scared by Granny de Neuville's white-faced cow.
"That other voice said to Gennaro, 'Sit down while I count this." "Sh! he's talking again." "If it is a penny less than ten thousand or I find a mark on the bills I'll call to Enrico, and your daughter will be spirited away again," translated Luigi. "Now, Gennaro is talking," said Craig. "Good he is gaining time. He is a trump. I can distinguish that all right.
He knew that the man they called Stonewall Jackson meant to turn his right, and he began to mass his regiments, and he sent for Sullivan from the left. The 23d and 37th Virginia eyed the on-coming line and eyed the stone fence. "That's good cover!" quoth a hunter from the hills. "We'd a long sight better have it than those fellows! Sh! the colonel's speaking."
But, by the way, doctor, did you know to-day was Christmas? Of co'se I might've knew you did but I never. An' now it seems to me like Christmas, an' Fo'th o' July, an' "Hail Columbia, happy lan'," all b'iled down into one big jubilee! But tell me, doctor, confidential sh! step here a leetle further back tell me, don't you think he's to say a leetle bit undersized? Speak out, ef he is.
Fus'-rate throw, 'n' no mistake, Han' us the props for another shake; Know I'll try, 'n' guess I'll win; Here sh' goes for hit 'm ag'in! Here I thought it necessary to interpose. Professor, I said, you are inebriated. The style of what you call your "Prelude" shows that it was written under cerebral excitement. Your articulation is confused.
But he passed the sleepers safely, and was soon beside his master. "How did you succeed in freeing yourself?" he asked. "Golly, I chawed 'em off!" he replied, with a suppressed chuckle. "Had a great notion of chawin' de tree off, so dat it mought fall on dem and broke dar necks." "'Sh! you are making too much noise," admonished Leland, in a guarded whisper. "Shall I eat up your cords?"
Hucky looked, with joy in his heart. "Well, he has, by jingoes! Did he before?" "Yes, he did. But I, like a fool, never thought. Oh, this is bully, you know. NOW who can he mean?" The howling stopped. Tom pricked up his ears. "Sh! What's that?" he whispered. "Sounds like like hogs grunting. No it's somebody snoring, Tom." "That IS it! Where 'bouts is it, Huck?" "I bleeve it's down at 'tother end.
Ah, yes; I was expecting you. We'll get right at it," and they did. Half an hour later they emerged on the street, free to take in the town, or to have the town take them in, which was usually the case. "What was that he said for us to keep away from?" asked Johnny with keen interest. "Sh! Not so loud," chuckled Hopalong, winking prodigiously.
Gusterson demanded. "Fay, you people aren't even consistent. You've got all your homes underground. Why not your factories?" "Sh! Not enough room. And night missiles are scarier." "I know that building's been empty for a year," Daisy said uneasily, "but how ?" "Sh! Watch! Now!" The looming building seemed to blur or fuzz for a moment.
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