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But when the next flash come, I was watching, and down there I see somebody a-swinging in the wind on the ladder, and it was Tom! "Come up!" I shouts; "come up, Tom!" His voice was so weak, and the wind roared so, I couldn't make out what he said, but I thought he asked was the professor up there. I shouts: "No, he's down in the ocean! Come up! Can we help you?" Of course, all this in the dark.
There I got me a hammer and nails with the heavy lead sinker offen my fishnet, and it wasn't long before the finest tick-tack you ever saw was working against the Spiegelnails' parlor window, with me in a lilac-bush operating the string that kept the weight a-swinging.
That dream of my youth now lies like a soft cloud far off in the horizon, beautiful with the morning tints of memory, but casting no shadow." She paused; then added, in a lively tone: "Well, Kate, the fifteen minutes are not out, and yet my story is done. Think you now it would really have been better to go a-swinging on a willow-tree over a pond, and so have made a good poetical end?"
But Time keeps his scythe a-swinging, and we go out like a snuffed candle.
In a disorderly way the men began to pull out of range, but still we could hear Kipping shrieking a stream of oaths and maledictions, and now Falk stood up and shook his fist at us and yelled with as much semblance of dignity as he could muster, "I'll see you yet, all seven of you, I'll see you a-swinging one after another from the game yard-arm!"
God helped me, and I crossed on the ice. They were close behind me right behind, and there was no other way. 'Law, missis, said the old servant, 'the ice is all in broken up blocks, a-swinging up and down in the water. 'I know it is. I know it, said Eliza wildly. 'But I did it. I would'nt have thought I could I didn't think I could get over, but I didn't care. I could but die if I didn't.
It kept a-coming, and when it was abreast of me I see there warn't but one man in it. Think's I, maybe it's pap, though I warn't expecting him. He dropped below me with the current, and by and by he came a-swinging up shore in the easy water, and he went by so close I could a reached out the gun and touched him. Well, it WAS pap, sure enough and sober, too, by the way he laid his oars.
And all this time, Traill was looking at her with steady eyes, behind which the pendulum was once more set a-swinging. Should he tell her, should he not? Should he rip out the knife that would cut this knot which circumstances seemed to be tying? "You want to know exactly what it is," he said suddenly. "Then it's this. I'm not the type of man who marries.
Old Dominick was spread out like a featherbed over all hers and most of Spangles', and there Spangles was just a-contending with him over one of her little black babies. He had it in his claw, but she had him by a beak full of feathers and was a-swinging on for fare-you-well.
It kept a-coming, and when it was abreast of me I see there warn't but one man in it. Think's I, maybe it's pap, though I warn't expecting him. He dropped below me with the current, and by and by he came a-swinging up shore in the easy water, and he went by so close I could a reached out the gun and touched him. Well, it WAS pap, sure enough and sober, too, by the way he laid his oars.
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