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But she watched him breathlessly as he rose and went to the table, and reached to take the books. "So y' keep 'em upstairs?" he said to Johnnie. "Yes, sir," it was a whisper. "She's accommodatin', ain't she, the old lady?" "She she yes." "A-a-ah!" The longshoreman placed the books atop the olive-drab hat, crushing it flat with their weight. "Oh! Oh, don't hurt 'em!" pleaded Johnnie.
A champion to the rescue! The others edge closer to him. They like him. "Nah, they cain't. How kin they? They'd cut their feet all to pieces." "They kin so. I seen 'em do it. The time I went with Uncle George I seen a man, a Japanee.... Yes, sharp. Cut paper with 'em.... A-a-ah, I did so. I guess I know what I seen an' what I didn't."
'A-a-ah! hold your hand, cries my master. 'Where in this wide world am I to find hundreds, or units itself, let alone thousands?
"Let her off! let her off!" cried the crowd. "NO!" roared the King. "Let the beef-eaters go down and chop her into small pieces. If the lions defend her, let the archers shoot them to death. That hussy shall die in tortures!" "A-a-ah!" cried the crowd. "Shame! shame!" "Fling any scoundrel who says a word down among the lions!"
"Is there any water near the cabin, Mr. Ripley?" asked Tom Reade, who possessed a practical head in such matters. "Yes; a spring, within perhaps twenty or thirty feet of the doorway," nodded the lawyer. "Inside the cabin is one of the big, old-fashioned fire-places " "O-o-oh! A-a-ah!" gasped the youngsters in chorus.
"How long did it take to convince you of that, Miss Morris? One act two the whole five acts?" "His first five minutes on the stage, sir. His business wins applause without the aid of words, and you know what that means." Again that elongated "A-a-ah!" Then, "Tell me of that five minutes," and he thrust a chair toward me.
Jumbo crams another cracker into his mouth and speeds away, hunching the patient, unresenting air with his elbows. Ah! See that little flicker of flame on the roof! Do, for pity's sake, hurry up with that connection! The roof is really burning. See? They are trying to chop away the burning place. But there's another! And another! A-a-ah! Hooray-ay! Connection's made! Now you'll see something.
But Leclere caught Batard behind the ear with a blow from his fist, knocking him over, and, for the instant, stunning him. Then Leclere leaped upon him with his feet, and sprang up and down, striving to grind him into the earth. Both Batard's hind legs were broken ere Leclere ceased that he might catch breath. "A-a-ah!
Breaking off short, he turned his head upon his shoulder, and sat listening to some shouting that was going on across the river. Everyone in that quarter was drunk, and, in particular, someone could be heard bawling in a tone of challenge: "Oh? I, you say? A-a-ah! Then take that!" Silantiev, stepping lightly from stone to stone, crossed the river. Somehow, on his departure, I felt ill at ease.
Then Hardman Pool ordered the little maid to fetch a tumbler of gin and milk, which, when she brought it, he nodded her to hand to Kumuhana. The glass did not leave his lips until it was empty, whereon he gave a great audible out-breath of "A-a-ah," and smacked his lips. "Much awa have I drunk in my time," he said reflectively.
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