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"The hair is so fine like gold, brown gold." With many a sigh and groan the barber plied his shears, stopping constantly to give vent to his feelings with a shrug of his broad shoulders and deep gutteral mutterings. "Oh, quit gargling your throat, Mike, and get through with the job. The young lady is alive, you see, and expects to get back to the Cedars in time for breakfast," said Ned.
"How now, Captain!" cried he, in a gutteral accent, and interlarding his discourse with certain Dutch graces, which with our reader's leave we will omit, as being unable to spell them; "how now! not gone yet!" "No! I start for the coast to-morrow; business keeps me to-day. I came to ask if Mellon may be fully depended on?" "Ay, honest to the back-bone."
"Break um? No, cut um." "You mean the ropes have been cut?" "Uh-huh," he grunted in gutteral tones. There was silence for a moment. "He isn't such a wooden Indian as he'd have us believe after all," grinned Ned. "Can't you trail them?" asked Stacy. The Shawnee shook his head. "Why not?" "No leave trail. Smart man." "Yes, there is no doubt of that," agreed the Professor.
"'Go after Luttra and tell her to make up the bed in the northwest room, said the elder of the two in deep gutteral tones unmistakably German in their accent, to the other who stood shaking the wet off his coat into the leaping flames of a small wood fire that burned on the hearth before us. "'O, she'll do without my bothering, was the sullen return. 'I'm wet through.
As the canoes touched the shore, Ella sprung forward to greet her adopted mother and father; but her course was suddenly checked by one of the Indian warriors, who, grasping her somewhat roughly by the arm, with a gutteral grunt and fierce gesture of displeasure, pointed her back to her former place.
These chiefs were painted, and wore only their necklaces and the customary loin-cloth, throwing their blankets about their shoulders when they had finished dancing. I noticed again Chief Diablo's great good looks. Besides, the officers had picked up many short phrases of the harsh and gutteral Apache tongue.
A widow belonging to another tribe came to the village with her children, and her son being ill, Puneunau offered his services to cure the lad. Day after day he would go to the iglo, run the stick down his throat, then walk around uttering gutteral sounds, but the boy refused to be cured and finally died.
It was precisely the same exclamation which had been uttered by the warrior who sat so cold and inanimate in the stern of the canoe, and Tom, without the least hesitancy, ceased paddling for the instant, straightened up, and responded in the same gutteral fashion, resuming the use of the oar at the same time, as if he meant that that should be the end of it.
They babbled at each other, Mrs. Lander in her Bostonized Yankee, and Maddalena in her gutteral Florentine, and Mrs. Lander was flattered to find how well she knew Italian. Miss Milray had begun being nice to Clementina in fealty to her brother, who so seldom made any proof of her devotion to him, and to whom she bad remained passionately true through his shady past.
Of the pitiful thing that her life had been this man made a wondrous thing, all sweet with twilights and haloed with service. He talked until the courtroom was still as death and the Indian women behind her were rocking in unison of grief. Then she heard questions again and the gutteral soft voices of her women answering with love and devotion in every halting word.
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