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For a moment Milly's heart ceased beating, then with a shriek, "Virgie, Virgie where are you!" she ran into the front hall and plunged, still shrieking, down the stairs. A door opened on the floor below, and the figure of a large woman in a rose-pink negligee confronted Milly. "Lookin' for yer little girl?" the stranger asked in a loud, friendly voice. "Well, she's all right just come in here!"
This in the Spanish tongue, and then in the tongue of his own country Ben Aboo heard the guttural shouts of his own people: "Sidi, try the palace." "Try the apartments of his women, Sidi." "Abd er-Rahman's gone, but Ben Aboo's hiding." "Death to the tyrant!" "Down with the Basha!" "Ben Aboo! Ben Aboo!" Last of all a terrific voice demanding silence. "Silence, you shrieking hell-babies, silence!"
Varvara was standing with her shoulder against the window, looking into the street; Sophia was walking up and down the room with her arms folded across her bosom; Popka was shrieking. 'How do you do? I responded; 'how do you do, Sophia Nikolaevna? Where is Tatiana Vassilievna? 'She has gone to lie down, answered Sophia, still pacing the room.
Having made up his mind, he started at once, and in three hours was at the foot of the hills on the other side of which ran the road from Lugo to Corunna, which proved so disastrous to the army. He presently arrived at a small hamlet, and the children in the streets ran shrieking away as they saw him.
The wind that had rioted across the mountains, rooting up great trees in its shrieking career northwards, grew hushed as it approached the Altenfjord there a weird stillness reigned, broken only by the sullen and monotonous plash of the invisible waves upon the scarcely visible shore.
He seized the Bible with his rough, huge hands; twice he raised it inarticulate, and then fairly burst into words, with rude and awful eloquence. He quivered, swayed, and bent; then rose aloft in perfect majesty, till the people moaned and wept, wailed and shouted, and a wild shrieking arose from the corners where all the pent-up feeling of the hour gathered itself and rushed into the air.
It was dark and about the middle of the night when all in the sleeping car were suddenly awakened by a loud crash. The train stopped with a jerk, there was a shrieking of whistles, and then loud shouts. "What is it?" called Mrs. Bobbsey from her berth. "Probably there has been a wreck," said Mr. Bobbsey, as he quickly got out of his berth and into the aisle.
The people who had accompanied the carriage remained without, yelling and shrieking: "Sitta Nefysseh is imprisoned let us liberate her!" Sitta Nefysseh had left her carriage, and was now following the cadi, who walked in advance. Behind her came the two women, followed by the officers. Thus the procession moved in profound silence up the broad stairway and into the grand reception saloon.
And there must have been hundreds of people inside side the building. It fell as one piece, that great building. It didn't topple until it had almost reached the river and its shrieking plunge became meteor-like, the sound of its fall monstrous beyond imagining.
Leaving the doorway open, letting the dust-laden wind tear shrieking through the silent house, he plunged into the roaring darkness. He took the centre path that led straight to the compound gate. The unhappy bushes and tortured branches of the trees, bent and twisted by the onrushing wind, lashed his face and body as he went down the path. He did not feel their stinging blows.
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