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But away in the forest whence Hish hath come Wohoon, the Lord of Noises in the Night, awaketh in his lair and creepeth round the forest to see whether it be true that Hish hath gone. Then in some glade Wohoon lifts up his voice and cries aloud, that all the night may hear, that it is he, Wohoon, who is abroad in all the forest.
"Divil take him!" whispered he to his companions; "I dinna know what to make av it. It be hawful to 'ear em!" "Hark!" ejaculated Harry Blount. "Hish!" ejaculated Terence. "Wheesh!" muttered Colin. "It's coming nearer, whatever it may be. Wheesh!"
Dudley could lick him to pot if he crossed him, and he and fayther 'ud think nout o' havin' him afore the justices for poachin', and swearin' him into gaol. 'But why does he think it's about me? 'Hish! said Meg, who fancied she heard a sound, but all was quiet. 'I can't say we're in danger, lass. I don't know why but he does, an' so do I, an', for that matter, so do ye.
"I know he walked down the holler to see John Cross's kids." "Hish!" she cried, looking about in alarm, as though the doctor had gone off on a murderous expedition. "You can jist say he won't be home till it's late. I guess there'll be no harm in them knowin' that. Now mind." Elsie gave a parting glance full of warning, and Tim answered with a solemn wink.
When Hanz had somewhat controlled his feelings he sat down in the big chair, and with Angeline looking anxiously over his shoulder and holding the candle, opened and began reading the letter "Yesh, t'is mine poor poy Titus as writes him," he said, pausing for a moment. "Hish name shust as he wrotes him when a poy." The rest of the company looked on and listened in silence.
The woman's tight mouth closed emphatically. "Well, hish!" she said, raising her spoon warningly. "Susan Winters is sittin' on her porch, an' she'll hear if you don't look out. It's no use talkin' about things, anyhow." The wire door creaked again, Mrs. Munn sailed away, and her son hung himself farther over the window-sill. Evidently he had inherited none of his mother's reticence.
"Couple of weeks very short have I to live." "As an hour is my space. Who will stand up for you?" "Hish, now. Hish-hish, my little heart." Madlen sighed; and at the door she made a great clatter, and the sound of the clatter was less than the sound of her wailing. "Mam! Mam!" Joseph shouted. "Don't you scream. Hap you will soften Nuncle's heart if you say to him that my funeral is close."
"Some of my poor wardrobe," he muttered, as he pointed his lean finger in the direction. "It did not sound like a cat, did it hey did it?" he muttered; and without attending to my answer, he went about the apartment, clapping his hands, and crying, "Hish hish hish!" The game, however, whatever it was, did not start.
When I returned, having made this dispositions, I perceived how pale the girl was. 'Are you ill, Meg? I asked. 'Never ye mind. Well enough. Listen, Miss; I must tell it all in a crack, an' if she calls, rin awa' to her, and le' me to myself, for if fayther or t'other un wor to kotch me here, I think they'd kill me a'most. Hish!
"I call the Lord to witness," said Broghill, casting up his eyes after the most approved Puritan fashion "I call the Lord to witness, I know nothing of it!" Cromwell gathered his eyebrows and looked upon him for a moment with a look which made the proud lord tremble; then sending forth a species of hissing noise from between his teeth, sounding like a prolonged hish h h h.
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