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Updated: May 2, 2025
The words were little better than a hack claptrap; but the sweet voice glided through the assembly, and found its way into every heart. "Is it so?" asked the old soldier, as his hand hoveringly passed above the coins. "Upon my honour it is, sir!" said the Mayor, with serious emphasis. The audience thought it the best speech he had ever made in his life, and cheered him till the roof rang again.
The young sailor, keeping his eyes away from Bertha, who set to work drawing a huge mug of beer, in which piece of hospitality Jodoque hoveringly helped her, and addressing himself to Doome, said, "Do you know, I was nearly snapped up by a shark some months ago?"
Flora, closest by, sprang crouching to the rescue, but recoiled as the kneeling girl leaned hoveringly over the mementos and with distended eyes and an arm thrust forward cried aloud, "No! No! No-o!" At once, however, her voice was tender again. "Mustn't anybody touch them but me, ever any more," she said, regathering the stuff, regained her feet and moved on.
When the surveyor returned to the rear train, Claude was in a corner seat gazing pensively through the window and out across the wide, backward-flying, purpling green cane-fields of St. Mary, to where on the far left the live-oaks of Bayou Teche seemed hoveringly to follow on the flank of their whooping and swaggering railway-train. Claude turned and met the stranger's regard with a faint smile.
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