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He shivered, and was about to reply when Colston caught him by the arm again, and said hurriedly "H'st! We are going in. Remember what I said, and don't speak again till some one asks you to do so." As he spoke a door opened in the wall of the dark chamber in which they had been standing for the last few minutes, and a flood of soft light flowed in upon their dazzled eyes.
The longer he stood the unsteadier he grew, and the more profusely he wept. Once or twice he made a motion, as if straightening himself to begin. The noise at table then subsided a little. The guests cried "H'st."
"They're down here," cried the voice of Miss Pilbeam, and the skipper, hardly able to believe in his good fortune, heard the sergeant go downstairs again. At the expiration of another week by his own reckoning he heard the light, hurried footsteps of Miss Pilbeam come up the stairs and pause at the door. "H'st!" he said, recklessly. "I'm coming," said the girl. "Don't be impatient."
Fire, oh yes. When him wakes bimeby him mak plenty fire. Each man. Him sit by fire all time eat. Then him sleep once more plenty. Each man wake, each man mak fire. So fire all time. No freeze dead." "None awake now," demurred Steve lowering his voice unconsciously. "Oh, no," returned the squaw. "No man wake now. Bimeby yes. H'st!" The woman's sudden, low-voiced warning startled Steve.
"They're down here," cried the voice of Miss Pilbeam, and the skipper, hardly able to believe in his good fortune, heard the sergeant go downstairs again. At the expiration of another week by his own reckoning he heard the light, hurried footsteps of Miss Pilbeam come up the stairs and pause at the door. "H'st!" he said, recklessly. "I'm coming," said the girl. "Don't be impatient."
I've had enough chaff about it as it is." Miss Pilbeam stole to the door of the next room and peeped stealthily in. Not a sound came from the cupboard, and a horrible idea that the prisoner might have been suffocated set her trembling with apprehension. "H'sh!" she whispered. An eager but stifled "H'st!" came from the cup-board, and Miss Pilbeam, her fears allayed, stepped softly into the room.
The man laughed. "Alâh!" he said; "whose son be you to give orders that fashion?" "Whose son?" echoed the child passionately. "I am " But Bija clung to his arm. "H'st, Mirak!" she whispered. "Remember what Head-nurse said that we were not to tell " Akbar stood irresolute; he was wise beyond his years. "But Horse-chestnut must not be hungry.
"It ain't come before him," Tommy said, confidently. "How do yer know?" "'Cos it weren't there at dinner-time, and I been here since dinner-time." The words meant that Tommy thought it could only enter by way of the stair, and Shovel quivered with delight. "H'st!" he cried, dramatically, and to his joy Tommy looked anxiously down the stair, instead of up it. "Did you hear it?" Tommy whispered.
During all this time General Arcularius Belch had been bowing profoundly and grimacing in dumb show to the crowd, pointing at Abel Newt, who stood, ingeniously supported, his real state greatly concealed by the friendly night. "Gentlemen!" cried Belch, in a piercing voice. "H'st! h'st! Down, down! Silence," in the crowd.
I've had enough chaff about it as it is." Miss Pilbeam stole to the door of the next room and peeped stealthily in. Not a sound came from the cupboard, and a horrible idea that the prisoner might have been suffocated set her trembling with apprehension. "H'sh!" she whispered. An eager but stifled "H'st!" came from the cup-board, and Miss Pilbeam, her fears allayed, stepped softly into the room.
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