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I badly want a pipe. The next piece of shade that you see, sing out, and we'll put in there." "Pull your left," said Mike. "That willow's what you want." Uncle John looked over his shoulder, caught a crab, recovered himself, and steered the boat in under the shade of the branches. "Put the rope over that stump. Can you manage with one hand? Here, let me Done it? Good. A-ah!"
Manley pressed his fingers hard against his temples. "You know I don't. I want you to stay and like the country, and be happy. But the way you have been talking makes it seem a-ah!" He dropped his tortured head upon his hands and did not trouble to finish what he had intended to say. Nervous strain, lack of sleep, and a headache to begin with, were taking heavy toll of him.
"All this talk of yours don't hold water no, nor spirit either," he laughed. "Say, I'm goin' to get married, and so I know." Quite how he knew didn't seem clear; but he paused for the impression. Abe whistled interestedly and edged nearer, turning his ear so as not to miss what the youngster had to say. "Who?" he demanded. "A-ah!"
He seemed a little easier but not for long. Soon his eyes rested on little Lida, his favourite, who was shaking in the corner, as though she were in a fit, and staring at him with her wondering childish eyes. "A-ah," he signed towards her uneasily. He wanted to say something. "What now?" cried Katerina Ivanovna.
"You needn't," said Peter. "Sure you won't change your mind and take a little fizz? We've been through some hot work for this weather." "You have. No not any!" "One go at mine, then, and I'm yours. A-ah! that was pretty good. Well there was a girl, of course. But she came because she wanted to come. Then the trouble began.
The camel turned its head towards him, showing its teeth, and snarling with a sort of dreary passion. "A-ah!" shouted the driver. "A-ah! A-ah!" The camel began to get up. As it did so, from the shrouded group of desert men one started forward to the palanquin, throwing off his burnous and gesticulating with thin naked arms, as if about to commit some violent act. It was the sand-diviner.
"I hope you haven't been paying attentions to anybody, Sam," said Mr. Nugent in a shocked voice. "A-ah," said Mrs. Silk, shivering with anger. "Ask 'im; the deceiving villain. Ask anybody, and see what they'll tell you. Oh, you wicked man, I wonder you can look me in the face!" Truth to tell, Mr. Wilks was looking in any direction but hers.
"Nothing, as far as I know; unless it was Brian Shaynon's doing " "A-ah!" "You know that old blighter?" "Slightly very slightly." "Friend of yours?" "Not exactly." The accent of P. Sybarite's laugh rendered the disclaimer conclusive. "Glad to hear that," said the boy gravely: "I'd despise to be beholden to any friend of his ..." "Well.... But what's the trouble between you and old man Shaynon?"
If the Groland outside resembled his father-in-law, he would like to drink him a pledge that should burn like the plague and ruin. He snatched a flask from his pocket as he spoke, and after a long pull and a still longer "A-ah!" he stammered: "I've been obliged to bid farewell to my tongue, yet it feels as if it were sticking in my throat like the dry sole of a shoe.
But he must be kept in his place, me child, an' ye see " "A-ah, m'mah, in the name of goodnsss sit down and pour out the tea," interrupted Anna Maria impatiently. "I'm dyin' for me cup. An' sure ye haven't brought us anythin' at all to eat yet, Elleney. Off with you now, an' bring that same toast whoever made it. The poor child's frightened out of her wits.
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