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Chee and Chirk and Chirp were the naughty crickets who gave him the name, and although Mrs. Cricky said it was unkind, yet other people took it up. Now Chee and Chirk were waiting for the "Parson" when they saw him come out of Grass Cottage, where he had been visiting Mrs. Cricky. "Ssh!" said Chee, "don't make so much noise, he'll hear us. There!
"It seems to you silly, but Chunda Lal is of the East; and he has promised. Oh! be quick! I am afraid. I tell you something. Fo-Hi does not know, but the police Inspector and many men search the river bank for the house! I see them from a window " "What!" cried Stuart "Dunbar is here!" "Ssh! ssh!" Miska clutched him wildly. "He is not far away. You will go and bring him here.
One would think I had agreed to her going. I suppose this is what she learns in her infernal London colleges. I suppose this is the sort of damned rubbish " "Oh! Ssh, Peter!" cried Miss Stanley. He stopped abruptly. In the pause a door could be heard opening and closing on the landing up-stairs.
He drew a long breath. "Ssh! Quiet, steady. I am an old stager out here. I know them brutes. Bash in the head of the first that stirs. There's too many of them, and she won't swim more than ten minutes." He panted again. "Hurry up," he yelled suddenly, and went on in a steady scream: "They are all awake millions of them. They are trampling on me! Wait! Oh, wait!
I would get only fairly absorbed in my task when Stodger would startle me with a sudden "Ssh!" or a no less startling command to "Listen!" Whereupon we would both sit straining our ears to hear nothing. Every few minutes one or the other of us, or both together, would go over the entire house, examining doors and windows and making sure that no one had entered since the last tour of inspection.
What are the Merriweather Girls doing now?" asked Bob Evans as he and Phil Gordon came into Shirley's Shop and followed the girls to the dark room. "Ssh! Bob! We think Shirley's got a picture of a deer or some other wild animal. Keep quiet." "Yes, keep quiet Phil!" laughed Bob. "The wild animal might get excited and run." Everything in the dark room was quiet as Shirley developed the plate.
Joe could see faces that fascinated him by their vivid lines, their starting dark eyes and the white eye-balls, their bulging noses and big mouths. Hands fluttered in lively gestures and a storm of Yiddish words broke loose. Joe arose, lifting his hand for silence. Men pulled each other by the sleeve, and a strident "'Ssh!" ran round the room. "Silence!" cried Joe.
"Where?" inquired Barnabas, glancing up hastily. "Ssh! behind us on the other side of the hedge clever minx!" "Why then " "Sit still, sir hush, I say!" "So that is the reason," said Cleone's clear voice, speaking within a yard of them, "that is why you dislike Mr. Beverley?"
Reach-hard! come! our sick-train's moving. Ssh! General Austin's asleep in the next room!" I asked where Ferry was. "Already started," he whispered, " in the General's own ambulance, with Charlotte Oliver in hers, on a mattress, like Ned, and the four Harpers in theirs."
"What's the idea of this here?" demanded Merton Gill's neighbour in aggrieved tones. "Ssh!" cautioned Merton. "It's Mass or something like that." And they bent in unison to this noon-tide devotion. When this was done Henshaw bustled into the group. "I want about a dozen or fifteen good types for the cafe," he explained to his assistant.