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"Not at all," Morris said; "not at all." Then a wave of recollection came over him, and he muttered a half-smothered exclamation. "Abe, Miss Smith," he almost shouted, and then he sat down. "Say, lookyhere, Abe, what is all this, anyway? Miss Smith comes in here and " "Well, upon my word!"
Joe Cross's words were beginning to sound indistinct before he had finished, half-smothered as they were by the increasing roar, as from far down the river a dark line of something could be seen rising some six or eight feet like a huge bank extending right across the river and apparently into the forest on both sides.
The same moment a great draught of wind, rising from depths of the valley below, swept overhead with a roaring sound, shaking the beech and box trees and setting all the golden azalea heads in a sudden agitation. It passed as swiftly as it came. The peace of the June morning again descended on the mountains. It was broken by a wild, half-smothered cry, a cry of genuine terror.
It is this conclusion, and conclusions like this, spoken in the tone of authority, which have sometimes made weak women "speak of their physical organization with half-smothered anathemas," and led them "to be ashamed of the temple" which an all-loving, and, let us also add, an all-wise Father, has built for them.
He's wrong I'm sure he's wrong! You'll live for many and many a happy year yet oh yes, Dad, you will! I'm sure of it! You won't die, darling Dad! Why should you?" She broke off with a half-smothered sob. "Why should I?" he said, with a perplexed frown; "Ah! that's more than I can tell you! There's neither rhyme nor reason in it that I can see. But it's the rule of life that it should end in death.
The river sucked in to the entrance with the smoothness of molten glass, and here, as the darkening walls received them, Shorty took a chew of tobacco, and dipped his paddle. The boat leaped on the first crests of the ridge, and they were deafened by the uproar of wild water that reverberated from the narrow walls and multiplied itself. They were half-smothered with flying spray.
Chloe went, but returned almost immediately, followed by Mrs. Travilla. With a half-smothered exclamation of delight, Adelaide threw herself into the kind, motherly arms extended to receive her, and burst into tears. Mrs. Travilla let them have their way for a moment, while she stroked her hair caressingly, and murmured a few soothing words.
Damer hardly an exclamation, so much as a half-smothered cry but whether of pain or fear, it was hard to determine. "Are you ill?" reiterated Mrs. Clayton, full of anxiety for her fragile-looking cousin. "No," replied Blanche Damer, pressing her hand to her side, but still deadly pale from the effect of whatever emotion she had gone through; "it is nothing; I feel faint after our long journey."
The incident had so far distracted his thoughts from the worries of the night that now, at last and in good earnest, he was dropping to sleep. But in less than twenty minutes he was broad awake again, with sudden start gasping, suffocating, listening in amaze to a volley of snapping and cracking, half-smothered, from the adjoining room.
Somehow or other I seem to possess an irresistible alluring power over mud. I have only to show myself in the street on a muddy day to be half-smothered by it. It all comes of being so attractive, as the old lady said when she was struck by lightning. If there were only one dab of mud to be found in the whole of London, I am convinced I should carry it off from all competitors.
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