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But Rosa would not desist, and the sailors were compelled to carry Mrs. Liebling up first. As they were lifting on deck the unconscious woman from the steerage, still emitting the fearful rattle, one of the Roland sailors, whose feet were frozen and who, during the whole long, dreadful drifting about on the ocean had not uttered a sound, suddenly began to bellow in pain.
I explained, as nearly as I could then, or can recall now for my agitation and distress throughout were so great that I scarcely understood myself, though every word that was uttered in the mother's voice, so unfamiliar and so melancholy to me, which in my childhood I had never learned to love and recognize, had never been sung to sleep with, had never heard a blessing from, had never had a hope inspired by, made an enduring impression on my memory I say I explained, or tried to do it, how I had only hoped that Mr.
As it did so I saw Tom's arm give a sudden jerk, and as he uttered a yell I realised what was wrong, flinging my arms round him, and threw myself inboard, so that I dragged him with me, and we fell together upon the deck.
As he neared the little stream on the bank of which the Indian lad had promised to await his coming, he uttered the cry of Hup-pe the great owl, which was the signal Has-se had taught him. To his joy it was immediately answered from a short distance in advance. In another moment he stood beside his friend, who without a word led him to where a canoe was hidden beneath some overhanging branches.
His protests were the natural, the inevitable protests that any man with red blood in his veins must need have uttered, brought face to face with so much sorrow and so much beauty.
I smiled to myself at her doctrines, which were as much as to say that the best way of curing appetite was to place a series of appetising dishes before a hungry man, forbidding him to touch them. Nevertheless I could but approve the words which she had uttered with such an air of innocence that if one resists desires, there is no danger of one being humiliated by giving way to them.
At length the black stopped at a somewhat broader place, which allowed us to join him; when, turning round, we looked down into a shallow cavern, in the centre of which we saw Edith and Pierce, kneeling down side by side, and gazing towards the sea. We had approached so noiselessly that they had not heard us. I easily leaped to the level on which they were kneeling, and uttered their names.
She said, indeed she would not; and, as she uttered it with some earnestness, she turn'd about, and gave me both her hands, closed together, into mine; it was impossible not to compress them in that situation; I wish'd to let them go; and all the time I held them, I kept arguing within myself against it, -and still I held them on.
"His dream has come true," he said "the dream he told us about at the Cabinet this morning. His ship is nearing the dark shore. He thought it signified good news from Sherman." Stanton did not reply. To save his life he could not have uttered a word. Then Gurley, the minister, spoke, very gently, for he was a simple man sorely moved. "He has looked so tired for so long.
Whether they had caught sight of him or not, he did not know. He did know that it was time to leave. Phil left. Springing up, he fairly flew over the ground. The men caught sight of him, as he realized when one of them uttered a yell.
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