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Thick layers of flannel swathed his throat, and from time to time, he coughed wheezingly, with the air of one who, having a cold, was determined to be conscientious about it. A voice from the buttery began pouring forth words only a little slower than the blackbird sings, and with no more reference to reply. "Cyrus, don't you feel a mite better?
'You can make a row if you like, the fat man said wheezingly; 'but the governor's orders is the governor's orders. The governor says, "Keep that young chap till I come back again." There's plenty here to do it. 'Very well, said Paul, noticing half-a-dozen loungers in the canvas passage.
"La, la!" said the charcoalman, sticking a thumb in the blacksmith's side; "you only give him the happy hand like that!" Duclosse was more serious. "It is the will of God that you become a marshal or a duke," he said wheezingly to the blacksmith. "You can't say no; it is the will of God, and you must bear it like a man."
Her doll, forgotten, lay across a corner of the table, in limp abandon, the buttonholed eyes staring nowhere. Grandsir spoke wheezingly: "We're keepin' house, 'Melia an' me. We thought we'd crack us a few nuts. Help yourself, Hetty." 'Melia lifted her bowl with two fat hands, and held it out, tiltingly. Her round blue eyes shone in a painstaking hospitality. She was a good little 'Melia.
And instead Dunn gasped wheezingly from the rock where I had let him drop, and Collins drawled as if we had met yesterday: "We heard we were dead! But it wasn't us you buried, or any of Hutton's men either, for he'd have missed 'em. I expect you'd better put your funeral down to two stray prospectors, and let it go at that!" He looked curiously into my face.
"La, la!" said the charcoalman, sticking a thumb in the blacksmith's side; "you only give him the happy hand like that!" Duclosse was more serious. "It is the will of God that you become a marshal or a duke," he said wheezingly to the blacksmith. "You can't say no; it is the will of God, and you must bear it like a man."
He lay upon his back, his puffy hands folded across his spherical abdomen where his pantaloons met a sweaty pink-striped shirt; and he panted wheezingly through his nose. "Hell of a country, ain't it!" he observed in a moment. "You a stranger, too?" "I have been here a short time, sir." "Thought so. Jest beginnin' to peel, like me. I been here two days. What's your line?"
Blows left crimson blotches upon pale skin. The curses of the first quarter minute of the fight died away. The breaths of the fighters came wheezingly from their lips and the three chests were straining and heaving. Pete at intervals gave vent to low, labored hisses, that sounded like a desire to kill. Jimmie's ally gibbered at times like a wounded maniac.
And, when he had wheezingly complied, they would arise under their loads, remark that it was real heartening, and hit the forward trail again. "If ever a man worked his passage and earned it," Big Bill confided to his two partners, "that man's our old Skeezicks." "You bet," Anson confirmed.
You cannot drink the water which the pump draws wheezingly up from some deep reservoir of bad flavors. It is very clear water and it has a sparkle that lures the unwary, but it is common knowledge that no man ever drank two swallows of it if he could help himself. So the water supply of Patmos lies twelve miles away in the edge of the hills, where there is a very good spring.
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