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Then all at once there came over the black water a peculiar squeaking, grinding sound, followed by a similar noise of a different pitch. "Pilate not going to s'eep; allee look out for light and go sail away d'leckly." "Yes, we have not wasted our time, Herrick," whispered Mr Brooke. "They're getting up their anchors." "And are we going to follow them, sir?" I said softly.
She looked toward the front of the coffee shop where a teenager was squeaking the soles of his tennis shoes against the floor while he waited for his order. "That's a god awful sound," she said. "Do you think God is awful?" he asked. "I said that the squeaking sound that guy is making is god awful- 'God awful' is a colloquial expression. It just means very bad.
And I don't want to hurt your feelings, but I think that squeaking bird of yours is about the beastliest thing I ever met. So suppose I give you a shilling and call it square, what? 'Gawd bless yer, guv'nor. 'Not at all. You'll be able to get those children of yours some bread I expect you can get a lot of bread for a shilling. Do they really like it? Rum kids!
Hereupon Dick Harness imitated the squeaking of pigs and caterwauling of cats upon his fiddle, so as to set everybody laughing, except Opposition Bill, who pretended to be very sulky. "Come, Dick, it's your turn now. Give us a regular forecastle song," said Ben the Whaler. "Well, then, here's one that's been sung ever since the days of old Queen Anne:
Its panelled rooms, discoloured with the dirt and smoke of a hundred years, I dare say; its decaying floors and staircase; the squeaking and scuffling of the old grey rats down in the cellars; and the dirt and rottenness of the place; are things, not of many years ago, in my mind, but of the present instant.
Then, as he tuned his ears more acutely, he knew that it was the squeaking of a hinge he had heard, and he felt sure it meant the opening of a door near by. Through the hole he looked at the door behind which was Levi Labenstein, whether sleeping or preparing for some act which would put the ship in peril and endanger the lives of all the passengers, could only be guessed.
It certainly would be a wonder to expect anything but confusion from the men who recently became the leaders of 180 millions. The leaders are sure they can make wonders. Prince Lvov! This old squeaking carriage, as Polenov says, is a man from whom I would not expect anything.
But Jim swung the gate open, and up we went, the gravel squeaking beneath our tread. It towered high, the old house, with many little windows in which the moon glinted, and with a strip of water running round three sides of it. The arched door stood right in the face of us, and on one side a lattice hung open upon its hinges. "We're in luck, Roddy," whispered Jim. "Here's one of the windows open."
Ingolby laughed. "You? Oh, I wish all the others were like you. It's the highly respectable members of the community I've always had to watch." The fiddle-song came squeaking out upon the sunny atmosphere. It arrested the attention of a man on the other side of the street a stranger in strange Lebanon.
Then he said, in a harsh, squeaking, laughable voice: "Ladies, do you want any wood, if you please, for your fire?" Receiving no answer, Loony placed his basket on the ground, opened the door gently, and entered the next room, after casting a rapid glance around.
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