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But Maga's eyes were practised like those of all other wild creatures in detecting movement behind her as well as in front. She spat, and gave vent to a final ultimatum. "You 'ave 'eard. I said you let that man Will Yerr-kees alone! An' don't you dare come to Zeitoon without a 'usband!"
He stopped in amazement, for the Dago turned and spat a brief word at him, making a gesture with his hand as though to command silence. In the moment that followed they all heard it a voice that sang, a strong and sweet contralto that strewed its tones forth like a scent, to add itself to the other scents of earth and leaves that traveled across the waters and reached them on their deck.
"That is a manner of reasoning that had not occurred to me." The Commandante had spat at the mention of the usurper's name and muttered "Chinchosa!" and Rezanov, recalling his first conversation with Concha, looked into the honest eyes of the monarchist with a direct and hearty sympathy. "No better epithet for him," he said. "And the sooner Europe combines to get rid of him the better.
It rasped a little came hurriedly then caught in his throat. Then he spat. Ellen shrunk back against the door. He was breathing through blood. "Uncle, are y'u in pain?" she asked. "Yes, Ellen it burns like hell," he said. "Oh! I'm sorry.... Isn't there something I can do?" "I reckon not. Queen did all anybody could do for me now unless it's pray."
I saw him drive amongst his people every day, and I bowed with the rest, I who could have spat in his face, I who carried with me the secret of his miserable perfidy, who knew alone why his ministers regarded him as a spoilt and fretful child. But I waited. Gradually I wormed my way a little into the fringe of the German Secret Service.
They're full of valuable chemicals and meet me here at ten o'clock and I'll give you another job. Will that do you? "My friend pocketed his pipe and spat on his hands. 'Gi' me the bloomin' truck, said he; and when I had surrendered the pole to him, he set off at a pace that made me thankful for the stout rope lashings of the casks.
Ay, he would wait for the shark; but if he had heard him coming!... His smile was tragic. He could have spat upon himself. About three in the morning, chance, and the set of the current, and the bias of his own right-handed body so decided it between them that he came to shore upon the beach in front of Attwater's. There he sat down, and looked forth into a world without any of the lights of hope.
On the barge's deck by the tiller an immensely fat boatman leant and smoked his pipe, which he withdrew placidly from his lips as Captain Salt gave the password to the man with the lantern and handed over the smoking horses. "Modena!" The fat man spat, stood upright and prepared for business as the passengers stumbled on board.
The Turk, wide awake to these preliminaries, was firing shrapnel at the aircraft overhead, and hurling towards the destroyers his high-explosive shells, which tossed up water-spouts in the sea. The whizz-bang gun spat continuously. "You won't spit after to-night," I mused, "if Doe reaches you."
Nay, not all, O Hair-Face. For last of them was one, a lean and catlike man, young of face, with a quick and daring eye, who drank darkly, and spat forth upon the ground, and spoke no word. "To not say that the quass was good were insult; to spit forth upon the ground were worse than insult. And this very thing did he do.