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"How are we to attract their attention, providin' we succeed in creepin' up under the wall?" I asked, after a long pause, and he replied, grimly: "I'll answer that question after you've told me how we're goin' to stop 'em shootin' at us while we're tryin' to get across."
The general tuk nae heed o't, but walked on and was soon oot o' sicht, and I didna lose a minute in creepin' oot frae my hidin' place and scamperin' awa' back tae my room, and if a' the bogies in the Red Sea were trapesin' up and doon the hale nicht through, I wud never put my heid oot again tae hae a glimpse o' them.
No answer in words; but instead of a sign of assent, the cripple after looking a moment longer at Daisy and the rose-tree, put her hand beyond the balsams and grubbed up a tuft of what the country people call "creepin' Charley;" and then sitting back as before, signified to Daisy by a movement of her hand that the rose-bush might go in that place. That was all Daisy wanted.
I grow and live a thousand years till night again!... But if you want to see me a woman, tell me why I can't ride away tell me what more I'm to lose tell me the worst." "Jane, you're watched. There's no single move of yours, except when you're hid in your house, that ain't seen by sharp eyes. The cottonwood grove's full of creepin', crawlin' men. Like Indians in the grass.
It's a creepin' in on us, though, like the snake in the garden, just to make folks think they can get more comfort out of fixin's than they can out of the good old truths. I can't be fed on chaff; no, I can't." And her sleeves would go up to her elbows, and she would march through work like a mower through a field.
Gien ye dee fechtin' like a man, ye'll flee up wi' a quaiet face an' wide open een; an' there's a great Ane 'at 'll say to ye, 'Weel dune, laddie! But gien ye gie in to the enemy, he'll turn ye intill a creepin' thing 'at eats dirt; an' there 'll no be a hole in a' the crystal wa' o' the New Jerusalem near eneuch to the grun' to lat ye creep throu'."
Hamilton talked to this extent: "Hush, Shadrach," he faltered. "Don't be profane." "Profane! Pup-pup-profane! You set there and and Oh, jumpin', creepin' Judas! I I " Language even his language failed to express his feelings and he waved his fists and sputtered. Baxter seized the opportunity. "Before you make your decision, gentlemen," he said, "I hope you will consider the situation carefully.
"I wish I could make the world one great ball-room for you," said Jerry earnestly. "Do ye?" asked Peg tremulously. "I do." "With you as me partner?" "Yes" "Dancin' every dance with me?" "Every one" "Wouldn't that be beautiful? An' no creepin' back afther it all like a thief in the night?" "No," replied Jerry. "Your own mistress, free to do whatever you wished."
And a precious lucky thing it was that we thought of doin' so, for it's the solemn truth I'm tellin' you, gen'lemen we hadn't very much more'n got settled back on our perches when back comes about a dozen o' them savages, creepin' out from among the trees as quiet as cats, and starts searchin' the whole place up and down as though they'd lost somethin'. My mates and me reckoned it up that them niggers had seen us and counted us some time yesterday, and had found, after the massacree, that we wasn't all accounted for, and so they'd come back to look for us.
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