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Minnie Duncan started, then glanced at her husband's immobile face, took the cue, and remained silent. "I say you were talking about me," Captain Dettmar repeated, this time with almost a snarl. He did not lurch nor betray the liquor on him in any way save by the convulsive working of his face. "Minnie, you'd better go down," Duncan said gently. "Tell Lee Goom we'll sleep below.
Would she nod goom for mooch money, you zink?" "I do nod zink she could be persuaded to coom," said his equerry. "No: she would nod goom," said the grand duke. The baron had an inspiration; he said in a stern voice: "Ze day, 'ighness; ze day will goom soon. Zen you will gommand only; and Bollyooly will obey." "Ach, yes: ze day," said the grand duke, watching the playing children.
Below, Lee Goom and Toyama were lowering skylight covers and screwing up deadeyes. Duncan pulled shut the cover of the companion scuttle, and held on, waiting, the first drops of rain pelting his face, while the Samoset leaped violently ahead, at the same time heeling first to starboard then to port as the gusty pressures caught her winged-out sails. All waited.
Ye canna say I hav na spak fair t' ye, an', by goom, ye'll na see me shally-wallyin this fashion agin. Be off wi' ye: ye can jest shift for yerself, since ye canna keep a civil tongue in yer head. The girl, catching at her breath, stood as if dazed, watching his retreating figure; then starting forward at a run, disappeared up the hill, into the darkness. Old Mr.
She knew that it was with him as it had been of old with his father, and with Goom the father of Jyshak, and long ago with the gods. Therefore she only sighed and let him go. But he, coming out from the cavern that was his home, went for the first time over the little stream, and going round the corner of the crags saw glittering beneath him the mundane plain.
In spite of herself her senses swam in the rhythmic monotony. All outside the focus of the dancers turned gray goom, zup! goom, zup! was it never to end? And then it seemed to her that it never would end, that thus it would go on forever, and that so it was just and right. The men were tireless. The sweat glistened on their bodies, but their eyes gleamed fanatically.
Some beachcomber in Honolulu had whispered to you, and you'd written to the Governor to find out. And that was his answer Lee Goom carried out to you. Why didn't you come to me like a man! No, you must play underhand with me, knowing that this billet was the one chance for me to get on my feet again. And as soon as you read the Governor's letter your mind was made up to get rid of me.
And in the background, under the shadows of the trees were the Monumwezis, their formation regained, close gathered, heads bent, two steps swaying to the right-stamp! two steps swaying to the left-stamp!-the white wands gleaming, and the rumble of their lion song rolling in an undertone: "Goom zoop! goom zoop!" We took our hot baths and sat down to supper most gratefully, for we were tired.
"I can't retain a captain who calls me a liar." Captain Dettmar for the moment was taken aback. His face and lips worked, but he could say nothing. Duncan coolly pulled at his cigar and glanced aft at the rising cloud of squall. "Lee Goom brought the mail aboard at Tahiti," Captain Dettmar began. "We were hove short then and leaving.
It was like the ebb and surge of a wave, the alternate smooth crouch and spring over and over again goom, zup! goom, zup! goom, zup! and behind it the twinkle of torches, the gleam of eyes, the roll of the deep-voiced chanting. Endlessly they repeated this performance. The Leopard Woman, watching, at last had to close her eyes in order to escape the hypnotic quality of it.
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