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Still there was no movement among all the arrased, girdered, pillared hosts. There came a little wailing; far away it was and far. Nearer it drew. Was that a tremor that passed through the crowded crater? A quick pulse of eagerness? "Hungry!" whispered Drake. "They're HUNGRY!" Closer was the wailing; again that faint tremor quivered over the place. And now I caught it a quick and avid pulsing.
His heart beat so that he could hardly speak as, for a moment, the good Abbot who held him by the hand stopped outside of the arrased doorway to whisper some last instructions into his ear. Then they entered the apartment. It was a long, stone-paved room.
But ere he could reach the arrased doorway, Prince Charles sprang to his side and cried, valiantly: "Nay then, if he goes so do I! 'Twas surely but a Christmas joke and of my own devising. Spoil not our revel, my gracious liege and father, on this of all the year's red-letter days, by turning my thoughtless frolic into such bitter threatening.
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