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Behind them followed the minister who yesterday had performed their marriage ceremony, and after him a choir of trained singers softly chanting: "Blessed are the dead who die in the Lord, For they shall cease from their labours." "But David," panted the Girl, "It was mean and poor. That is not she!" "Sush!" said the Harvester. "It is your mother.
It was just eleven o'clock, and they 'ad shut up for the night, when the front door opened, and George stood there smiling at 'em and shaking his 'ead. "Sush a lark," he ses, catching 'old of Mr. Alfredi's arm to steady 'imself. "I gave 'im shlip." "Wot d'ye mean?" ses the manager, shaking him off. "Gave who the slip? Where's them clothes?"
There had been an evil light in the eyes of the Klondike woman and her Bohemian cohorts as they surveyed him. As he preceded me I heard him murmur ecstatically: "Sush is life."
"Great conspirators, they are!" sniffed Jerry. "They might at least grease their oars." He heard the mumble of low voices, the sush of a boat keel on the sand. Reaching down, he caught up a big handful of pebbles; with a hard overhand swing he let them fly. He heard a muttered "Ouch!" and then, after a moment's silence, once more the creak-crook of oars.
He walked across the room to Colonel De Willoughby. "I am going home," he said, in a low, fierce voice; "you had better come with me." "No sush thing," answered the Colonel, gaily. "On'y just come. Don't go to roosh with shickens. Just quoting Tom Moore to Miss Baxter. Bes' of all ways to lengthen our days Is to steal a few hours from the night, my dear."
"Boy's got 'em," ses George, smiling agin and catching hold of Kumbo's arm. "Sush a lark; he's been car-carrying 'em all day all day. Now I've given 'im the the shlip, 'stead o' 'stead o' giving 'im fourpence. Take care o' the pensh, an' pouns " He let go o' Kumbo's arm, turned round twice, and then sat down 'eavy and fell fast asleep.
Then they inspected his badge, looked at a sort of identifying card he carried in an inner pocket, and were satisfied. "But what does it all mean?" asked Grace. "I didn't know you were going in for that sort of thing, Will! How did it happen? And are there any smugglers around here?" "Hist! Not a word! Sush!
There was a quiver of the flimsy railing, a slender body cut through the moonlight, parted the water with a clean sush! and bobbed up almost immediately, within three feet of the boat. Jerry Ring did not have the reputation of being the best diver in Watertown for nothing. Now ensued a great kicking and churning as Jerry's legs transformed themselves into propellers for the salvaged "Big Four."
It was just eleven o'clock, and they 'ad shut up for the night, when the front door opened, and George stood there smiling at 'em and shaking his 'ead. "Sush a lark," he ses, catching 'old of Mr. Alfredi's arm to steady 'imself. "I gave 'im shlip." "Wot d'ye mean?" ses the manager, shaking him off. "Gave who the slip? Where's them clothes?"
Now she was eager to comfort him if he was awake and unhappy, or merely to cuddle and kiss him if he was fast asleep in his bed. At the top of the staircase she saw the lowered lamp in the nursery, and beside it stood Harry in his little nightgown, with a toy ship in his arms. "Mamma, I'm tired of bed and I want to play." "S sush, darling, you will wake Jenny. It isn't day yet.
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