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He wished that they might not succeed, that they might feel embarrassed in his presence, and a wicked thought flashed through his mind: "Perhaps the chains will break." "Boys! Attention!" shouted the contractor. "Start all together. God bless us!" And suddenly, clasping his hands in the air, he cried in a shrill voice: "Let her go-o-o!"
"'Down the river, O down the river, O down the river we go-o-o; Down the river, O down the river, O down the Ohio-o-o!" "I think you learned a good deal for one day," said Mrs. Thorndyke, coming in. "How do you do, Jacob? I'm glad to see you." Thus she again put forth her theory that Virginia and I had been together only one day.
"Here's a song he taught me back on the prairie: "'Down the river, O down the river, O down the river we go-o-o; Down the river, O down the river, O down the Ohio-o-o! "'The river was up, the channel was deep, the wind was steady and strong, The waves they dashed from shore to shore as we went sailing along
She stamped her foot again, jabbed her forefinger at the door, and said, "Go-o-o!" in a tone that startled the majority of the company nearly as much as it did Danny. Then Yankee Jack threw down his cards, rose from the table, laid his strong, shapely right hand not roughly on Danny's ragged shoulder, and engineered the drunk gently through the door.
While up to this day, awaking in the mornings in his lair on Temnikovskaya also to the sound of a factory blast agreed upon he would during the first minutes experience such fearful pains in his neck, back, in his arms and legs, that it seemed to him as if only a miracle would be able to compel him to get up and make a few steps. "Go-o-o and e-at," Zavorotny began to clamour again.
I called again and again in a reassuring tone to come on and fear nothing; that he could come if he would only try. He would hush for a moment, look down again at the bridge, and shout his unshakable conviction that he could never, never come that way; then lie back in despair, as if howling, "O-o-oh! what a place! No-o-o, I can never go-o-o down there!"
Dick thought he had never seen a woman with a face and figure to match hers, and it is to be feared that hi mind wandered a little until he was roused by a bellow from the bridge. "Stand by, forrard. Let go-o-o!" Luckily, Dick's office was a sinecure. The men knew what to do, and did it.
Nevertheless, mounting the last slope was such hard labour that Mugford had to turn to and "work his passage," by every now and again taking a spell at the treadles. "Look here!" said Diggory at length: "don't you think we've gone far enough? we shan't be back in time for tea." "Oh, I forgot," answered the captain. "We'll see. Stand by your anchor! Let go-o-o!"
Go! go! We're goin' to make it. We're goin' to make it! Go-o-o!" Half an hour later they were again riding abreast, at a moderate gallop. Alice's cries had been quieted, but she still clung to her mother in a great tremor. Mary and her companion conversed earnestly in the subdued tone that had become their habit. "No, I don't think they followed us fur," said the spy.
I killed the old horse, and I suppose I ought to do something to get ye a new one. But but I don't quite like Mr d'Urberville being there!" "Tess won't go-o-o and be made a la-a-dy of! no, she says she wo-o-on't!" they wailed, with square mouths. "And we shan't have a nice new horse, and lots o' golden money to buy fairlings! And Tess won't look pretty in her best cloze no mo-o-ore!"
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