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"My dear boy, I trust not," she said; "you must go to bed, and let Mrs Cross and me examine your arm." "If it is broken we must send off for a surgeon immediately," said the marquis. "I would rather have some supper first. I dare say so would Voules, for we both of us felt very hungry as we came along, and I hope after all, no bone is broken."
Harmony had not expected to find him home, and paused, rather startled. "Oh, I didn't know you were home." Peter spoke without turning. "Try to bear up under it," he said. "I'm home and hungry, sweetheart!" "Peter, please!" Peter turned at that and rose instantly. It was rather dark in the salon and he did not immediately recognize Mrs. Boyer.
There was nothing of the Puritan about him, nothing of the false idea that if a thing is pleasant, it must therefore be somehow sinful. On the contrary, Smith believed that with a normal person the gratification of wishes was the natural result of their possession. If he felt hungry, he ate; if he wanted to see Helen, he went and saw her.
At the same time he proceeded to introduce a fresh belt of cartridges into the hungry maw of the machine gun, in case they were forced into another engagement. Above them the battle still raged, though of course Jack could not decide which side might be getting the better of it.
We made no reply to that man's remarks. A mile further on we again called for lodging. The man could not keep us, as he was poor, and his family sick; but he directed us to a house half a mile from the traveled road, where he said a man lived that was an infidel, but would not turn a hungry man from his door. We went to the house and asked for entertainment.
A splendid sight she was, for our own flag flew from the ensign halyards, and less than three weeks before, any man of us would have given his right hand to see that ship and that flag within hail; but now it was the sight of land that thrilled us to the heart. Hungry, thirsty, worn out with fatigue, we joyously stared at those low, distant hills.
A few minutes later the gold-seekers were on the sleds of the friendly Eskimos, some of whom remembered Abe, and the weary and hungry adventures were being rushed toward the native village as fast as the dogs could run. It was a hunting party that had come upon our friends just in time. Little more remains to be told.
"Willie," she said, "what would you do if you were just sitting down to the table feeling very hungry, and just as you began to eat your meat and potatoes, I would come along and snatch the plate from you?" "I don't know what I'd do," he said, laughingly; "but I'd want to wallop you."
"Let me spell you at the oars, Jim," said Percy. "Don't care if you do! And pass that bag of hard bread forward! I feel hungry enough to eat the whole of it. Wonder what Filippo'll have for supper to-night!" The boys had been in such a hurry to get away from Matinicus that they had not taken time for any dinner; so both had keen appetites. Jim made a hearty lunch on the crisp crackers.
He had been created consul to Opeki as being more distant and unaccessible than any other known spot, and had lived and died there; and so little was known of the island, and so difficult was communication with it, that no one knew he was dead, until Captain Travis, in his hungry haste for office, had uprooted the sad fact.
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