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"This," I said, lifting the canvas a second time and drawing Miriam forward. I could but place the child in her arms. She glided in. The flap fell. There was the smothered outcry of one soul rent by pain. "Miriam Miriam my God Miriam!" "Come away," whispered a choky voice by my side, and Frances linked her arm through mine.
Splash! and a cry from Good. He had fallen in. "Good! Good! where are you?" we shouted, in terrified distress. To our intense relief an answer came back in a choky voice. "All right; I've got hold of a rock. Strike a light to show me where you are." Hastily I lit the last remaining match. Its faint gleam discovered to us a dark mass of water running at our feet.
He picked up the flat little purse and handed it back to her. "Shall I go after him? Did you know him?" The girl was holding on to the parapet with a little choky laugh. "Oh, yes, I know that kind. No, I don't want him!" "He ought to have a good thrashing," Peter was convinced. The girl looked up at him with a sudden curiosity. "You're from the country, ain't you? I thought so the other night.
"I'se got mizzable mem'ry, and I don't justly 'member," was Sam's answer; "but I reckons he feel berry queer and choky berry." "That's exactly my case, so you may venture to tell," Hugh said; and getting his face close to that of the young man, Sam whispered: "She say, 'Tell Massah Hugh I I You's sure you's dyin'?"
When the train had swept out into the yards, the little party broke up. Horatio, who was choky, turned to his wife. Mrs. Horatio was already studying through her spectacles a suburban time-card to ascertain the next "local" for Elm Park. Ernestine and Walter Kemp slowly strolled up the train-shed together. The banker was the first to break the silence:
When she did there was a mist over her bright brown eyes. "The darling thing!" she cried. "Who wrote it, Bob? It's as clever as it can be, and yet there's something about it that makes me feel queer and choky. It's it's" her face brightened "it's something like the feeling I had when little Bobbie wrote me his first letter, that time I went home to take care of mother.
Dust don't hurt me. Goin' to return to 't presently. Made on 't! made on 't! Don't see why folks need be so 'fraid on 't! He! he! 'T is pretty choky, though." And he sat down on one of the leather rolls, and held his sides through a hard coughing fit.
Leila could see the long white throat above those rigid arms straining and swallowing; it gave her a choky feeling to watch it. The voice, uncannily dainty for all the wildness of the words and face, went on: "I won't I don't want to live. If there's another life, I shall go to him. And if there isn't it's just sleep." Leila put out her hand to ward of these wild wanderings.
Organize 'em as much as you like. Show 'em how to play. Give that He-Crab act if you wish. We'll start you in at a dollar a man. That satisfactory?" I believe Brink tried to say it was, only what he got out was so choky you could hardly tell. But he goes out beamin'. "Well!" says Old Hickory, turnin' to me. "I suppose he'll call that coming safely out of a nose dive, eh?"
A good friend in Frank here, who is the very spit of his father, one of the bravest, truest soldiers that ever lived." These words were said in a way which made Frank feel a little choky, and turned the tide of Andrew Forbes's anger, which now ebbed rapidly away. "You'll come to me, my lads, both of you, if you want help?" said the captain, at their parting an hour later.
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