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"I reckon, young man, as how I shall pay you out for this, and drot my skin, if I once twists my fingers round your neck again, if any thing on this side hell shall make me quit it, afore you squeaks your last squeak. You've druv me from my home, and I'll have your curst blood for it yet.
Field remarked to his colleague: "Well, I think the old chap is going to pull through after all; but it was a mighty close squeak." Meanwhile, the messenger who had been sent out to Willow Bluff to apprise Virginia of her father's accident returned with the information that Virginia had left the day before, to stay with friends, and could not possibly get home till next day.
There was a sudden jostling among the dancers on the floor then an oath, rising high above the riot of talk and laughter a swirl of figures a medley of shouts and women's screams, drowning out the squeak of the musicians' violins and the thump of the tinny piano. Jimmie Dale's jaws locked hard together.
At any moment the door below might open, with the squeak she knew so well, to let him out! "No, no, she never would dare; rather would she die of longing and sorrow, than attempt such an act." She already made a few return steps towards the back of her room, to regain her seat and work.
"Hush!" she said, catching his hand in hers as she read, while all around them the sounds of summer the distant clack of a reaper, the crack of a whip, the locusts droning, the whir of a young partridge, the squeak of a chipmunk were tuned to the harmony of the moment and her voice: "'Night and the sombre silence, oh, my love, and one star shining!
There's another!" growled Flynn, as he fired a second boot, which whizzed past the intruder, and a sharp squeak told that it had not been fired in vain! Moses beat a hasty retreat, and the Irishman continued the fight with that indomitable perseverance for which his countrymen are famous.
It was dark when all was done, so the kitchen was cleared, the candles lighted, Patience's door set open, and little Nat established in an impromptu orchestra, composed of a table and a chair, whence the first squeak of his fiddle proclaimed that the ball had begun.
The sky and water were beginning to be touched by the first faint tones of rose, the dawn was bringing its enchantment to this marriage-time of the black and white. Over in the Key West barracks a bugler would soon be blowing reveille; down in the sleeping town stumpy little street cars would squeak from their sheds and clang their discordant gongs through the narrow thoroughfares.
At any hour of the day or night Catharine, hidden in her chamber, could hear the yapping of the curs, the squeak of rats, and the word of command given by her half-idiot husband. When wearied of this diversion Peter would summon a troop of favorites, both men and women, and with them he would drink deep of beer and vodka, since from his early childhood he had been both a drunkard and a debauchee.
Now they are curled, and paint themselves, and lie in silk and toy with ladies who shamed to be seen at Court or board when I was a boy and love better to hear the mouse squeak than the lark sing." "Still, if I give you my gold chain," Count Hannibal answered quietly, "'twill keep you from that." "Give it to Bigot," the old man answered.
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