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They asked me if I knew what ship 'e belonged to, as the police wanted to know. So I told 'em I knew well enough, but I wasn't going to tell if it would get the poor fellow into a scrape. "`Why don't you ask himself? says I. "They told me 'e was past speaking, so I tried to make 'im understand, but 'e only mumbled in reply.
He tried to struggle from her arms, tried to push her from him. "You know!" he mumbled. "You've watched me you know the truth! Everything is lost! I am ruined! The mortgage! Herondale will pass away! I am a poor man, a very poor man! Have pity on me, have pity on me!" He slipped, by their weight, from her arms and fell into the chair.
She could hardly hold it up. "June," she said presently, "I think those people in the eleventh chapter of Hebrews you know?" "Yes, Miss Daisy." "I think they were very happy, because they knew that Jesus loved them." June made no audible answer; she mumbled something; and Daisy sat still. Presently her soft breathing made June look over at her; Daisy was asleep.
How different from the sanguine and joyous mien that he had assumed for Georgiana's encouragement! "Carefully now, Aminadab; carefully, thou human machine; carefully, thou man of clay!" muttered Aylmer, more to himself than his assistant. "Now, if there be a thought too much or too little, it is all over." "Ho! ho!" mumbled Aminadab. "Look, master! look!"
A cloud of butterflies were fluttering about a pool near; a couple of big flies buzzed and mumbled on the pane. "What ails your mother?" Lily asked, recovering herself and looking at Sadie, who was distinctly ill at ease. "Oh, I dunno," Sadie replied, putting one bare foot across the other. Lily insisted. "She 'n' pa's had an awful row" "Sadie!" said the teacher warningly, "what language!"
He now stood silent before them, his great hands hanging loosely at either side. "Some one has come today," he mumbled out suddenly, when the idea struck him. "Who?" asked both girls. "An Englishman on foot." "What does he look like?" asked Em. "I did not notice; but he has a very large nose," said the boy slowly. "He asked the way to the house." "Didn't he tell you his name?"
God forgive me!" he muttered. "O good God, forgive me!" he groaned: "It isn't fair, though. Lord knows it isn't fair," he mumbled hoarsely. At last Nancy Joe came out and took him in hand in earnest. "Look here, Pete," she said. "If you're wanting to kill the woman, and middling quick too, you'll go on the way you're going.
There were only two packs on the sledge, and these he passed through the hole to Porter. A few moments later he was holding a flask of liquor to the lips of the gray-bearded man, while the girl looked at him with eyes that were widening as the snow-sting left them. Tavish gulped, and his mittened hand closed on the girl's arm. "I'm all right, Jo," he mumbled. "All right "
She had grown past that. Surely her body was sacred from such infamy now. "Come here to me, I tell you!" Adna snarled, as he pursued her slowly around the chairs. "You better not whip me, poppa," Kedzie mumbled. "You better not touch me, I tell you. You'll be sorry if you do! You better not!" "Come here to me!" said Adna. "Momma, momma, don't let him!"
One suspicion, and the huge beast would take the staircase in three leaps, and neither quickness, strength nor prowess could have saved Jim if once the hound had caught his trail. "Gosh, I've got to find a weapon somewhere!" Jim mumbled to himself; "this won't do at all."
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