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For a moment or two the sweating men ceased in their work, and stood wiping their faces or leaning against the dock wall, talking in low whispers. Cleek and Dollops stood at the quayside, listening to the water lapping against the iron girders, and straining their eyes to catch a last glimpse of the fleet of fishing boats. Of a sudden from out the blackness others appeared.

Every night I make a vow unto the Lord that I will sin no more; but in the morning the devil whispers in my ear and I rise up and sin again no man knows this and I am never glad unless I think I have done well with my pictures, and I hate the meeting-house and " His voice died away miserably. "Two years ago, was't?" asked the old man. "And the man was French?" "Aye."

Suddenly the woman turned, and, laying the prettiest of little hands on my sleeve, said, with a winning smile, "Is it a crime of lèse-majesté?" This was a new idea, but might be useful. "Not yet," I said; "two minutes more, and I will not answer for the consequence." Other whispers ensued.

His finger was on his lips as we got out softly into the starlight. Moreover, we dropped into a very desert of a country road, nor saw a soul when we doubled back beneath the outer study windows, nor heard a footfall in the main street of the slumbering town. Our own fell like the night-dews and the petals of the poet; but Raffles ran his arm through mine, and would chatter in whispers as we went.

His harem was agitated and excited throughout, some of the women abandoning themselves to unaccustomed and unnatural gayety, while others sent their confidential slaves to consult the astrologers and soothsayers of the court; and by the aid of significant glances and shrugging of shoulders, and interchange of signs and whispers, with feminine telegraphy and secret service, most of those interested arrived at the sage conclusion that their lord had fallen under the spells of a witch or enchantress.

They did not know that this awful chamber lay just before them, or it were doubtful that they would have proceeded farther; but they saw that those they sought had come this way and so they followed, but within the gloomy interior of the chamber they halted, the three chiefs urging their followers, in low whispers, to close in behind them, and there just within the entrance they stood until, their eyes becoming accustomed to the dim light, one of them pointed suddenly to the thing lying upon the floor with one foot tangled in the coverings of the dais.

"And the doctor?" asks Camille, as he and the messenger are hurrying side by side out of Exchange alley into Bienville street. " was there yesterday and the day before." They reach the house. Attalie meets her counselor alone at the top of the stairs. "Li bien malade," she whispers, weeping; "he is very ill." " wants to make his will?" asks Camille. All their talk is in their bad French.

In the gallery to which he passed on without awakening him, a crowd of courtiers and ladies, with arquebusiers and captains of the quarters, walked to and fro, talking in whispers; or peeped over shoulders towards the inner end of the hall, where the querulous voice of the King rose now and again above the hum.

He did not say much to his crew, though, nor did his crew say anything to him. Only the silence of the boat was at intervals startlingly pierced by one of his peculiar whispers, now harsh with command, now soft with entreaty. How different the loud little King-Post. "Sing out and say something, my hearties. Roar and pull, my thunderbolts!

"'S-sh-sh! whispers the clerk, scart. ''Tis the boss. The bloke what runs the hotel. He's a fine man, but he has troubles. He's blue. "'So that's the boss, hey? says I. 'And he's blue. Well, he looks it. What's troublin' him? Ain't business good? "'Never better. It ain't that. He has things on his mind. You see "I cal'late he'd have told us the yarn, only Sim wouldn't wait to hear it.