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We'll unhook on the side of that hill there, away from the road. It will be quite warm to-night, and we can lie down under those trees." ... A dozen or so 5·9's rushed through the air, and burst with terrifying ear-racking crashes along the road in front of us. A charred, jagged rent showed in the wall of a farm building.
Recognizing that there was some design in this, the passenger subdued his disapproval of the delay, and sat quiet. In answer to the third ear-racking hail, a man, clothed simply in dirty shirt and disreputable trousers, showed himself in the doorway above, rubbing the sleep out of a red, bloated countenance with a mighty and grimy fist. "'Ello," he said surlily. "Wot's th' row?"
On the way to that section of the city where Cantonese of high and low degree are laid away after death, we encounter a returning funeral party that made a curious procession, and one stretching to inordinate length. In front was a ragamuffin corps of drummers and men extracting ear-racking noises from metal instruments that looked like flageolets, but were not.
Then Alderdene, blinking furiously, emitted one of his ear-racking laughs; and everybody, as usual, laughed too. "You damned cynic," observed Voucher affectionately. "Somebody," said Fleetwood, "insists that she doubled up poor Siward." "She never met Siward until she was engaged to Howard," remarked Voucher. "Well?" "Oh, don't you consider that enough to squelch the story?"
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