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Her fingers were spiteful as they clicked the key in answer. She slammed the current off, set up the "out" notice again, kicked the desk chair against the wall, and came back to the "parlor" breathing quickly. "I think it must be perfectly fascinating to talk that way to persons miles off," said Evadna, eying the chittering sounder with something approaching awe.
The former occupant had papered the walls with newspapers and had pasted up figures cut out from the posters of some Kiralfy ballet, very gaudy. By the one window, chittering all day in its little gilt prison, hung the canary bird, a tiny atom of life that McTeague still clung to with a strange obstinacy.
But the captain would have none of the precautions he urged; declared he would walk the deck as usual, and vowed he could cope single-handed with a dozen cowards like Maxwell. "John Paul," said MacMuir, with admiration in his voice and gesture, "John Paul wasna feart a pickle, but gaed to the mast, whyles I stannt chittering i' my claes, fearfu' for his life.
"Thanks, fellow," he said softly to the little being on his shoulder. "That's kid's getting to be pretty annoying." "I figured as much," Rat said in his chittering birdlike voice. "And I don't like the way she's been looking at me. She's just the kind of individual who would dump me in a disposal hatch." "Don't worry about it," Alan said.
Between the windows, however, the faded photograph of the couple in their wedding finery looked down upon the wretchedness, Trina still holding her set bouquet straight before her, McTeague standing at her side, his left foot forward, in the attitude of a Secretary of State; while near by hung the canary, the one thing the dentist clung to obstinately, piping and chittering all day in its little gilt prison.
To him the marks on the ledge were a pledge of greater discoveries to come. He must find where that carefully constructed road ran to what it led. "Let us see where this will take us." But first he gave the chittering signal in four sharp bursts. And the tawny-gray bodies came out of the tangled brush, bounding up to the ledge.
But King wasn't that sort; he yelled to us to move up and make room, and then took down his whip and started up. Pochette pirouetted out of the way, and stood holding to the low plank railing while he went on saying things that, properly pronounced, must have been very blasphemous. King paid about as much attention to him as he would to a good-sized prairie-dog chittering beside its burrow.
There's one girl that crumbs up her health muffins and puts them on the window-sill every day when I ain't looking, so's not to hurt my feelings." "That accounts for all those chittering sparrows," Nancy said. "And some of those buttermilk men threatens not to come any more if I don't stop serving it to them." "What do you say to them, Dolly, when they object to it?"
"Oh, that," said the Forest Ranger, "that is a well known, game old elderly spinster lady commonly called the Moon; and that other on the branch chittering swear words is nothing in the world but a Douglas squirrel hunting I think he is really hunting a flea to mix in his spruce tips as salad." "Do you know what he is saying?" "Of course! Cheer up! Cheer up! Chirrup!
After he was gone I was able to smile grimly and call it a coincidence, wondering meanwhile, if one of the consequences of my hideously disarranged life was to be a lapse into chittering cowardice; an endless starting aside at shadows. The new field of endeavor, chosen blindly at the ticket window in the capital, proved to be a small manufacturing city.
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