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Still I thought it safest to show an overbearing frown. "To what command do you fellows belong?" He spurted a pint to reply, "Fishe's batt'ry." "Oh! And where is the battery?" "You sa-ay 'Whah is it? ow batt'ry" he champed noisily "I dunno. Does you? Whah is it?" "It's twenty miles off; why are you not with it? What are you doing here?"
He sat like a man in a dream, while the loosened tongues of the men ran noisily on a hundred themes as they chaffed each other, exchanged a fire of bivouac jokes more racy than decorous, and gave themselves to the enjoyment of their rude meal, that had to them that savor which long hunger alone can give.
Over the frozen surface of the river it flowed and wore at the shore-bound ice-floor. And then, one night, the ice went out. Titanically it went, and noisily, with the crash and grind of broken cakes; and in the morning the river rushed black, and deep, and swollen, its roiled waters tearing sullenly at crumbling banks, while upon its muddy surface heaved belated ice-cakes and uprooted trees.
Then a low, shadowy hull, outlined by a glimmer of phosphorescence, came on towards the harbor mouth, and a rocket swept up in a fiery curve and burst, dropping colored lights. A harsh rattle of running chain broke out, the screw splashed noisily for a few moments and stopped, and a launch came swiftly down the harbor. "The port doctor!" said Dick.
"Master Waller, are you upstairs?" came from below; and the boy pressed his finger on his lips and took a little saw from where it was hanging against the wall, put it down noisily, and picked up a hammer from where it lay upon a bench-like table.
Then the Princess came back, very slowly and kicking her long skirts in front of her at every step. She could not hold them up now because of the tray she carried. It was not a silver tray, as you might have expected, but an oblong tin one. She set it down noisily on the end of the long table and breathed a sigh of relief.. "Oh! it was heavy," she said.
The standard bearer came back easily to a sitting posture on the asphalt. The crowd was close in, noisily depriving other bearers of their standards. The Internationale had become blurred and discordant, like a bad phonograph record. The parade still came to break and flow about the obstruction. Wilbur Cowan jerked his prize up and whirled him about. He contemplated further atrocities.
Here, outside the city, emptiness loomed almost like a presence. Only the trees were alive; each with its colony of peacocks and parrots and birds of prey noisily settling to rest. The peacocks' unearthly cry, and the far, ghostly laugh of jackals authentic voice of India at sundown sent a chill down Roy's spine.
When the last note had died away among the cavities of the mountain, he exclaimed: "God bless me! but I think your liver is out of order." Roland started and looked at him interrogatively. But seeing that Sir John did not intend to say more, he asked: "Good! What makes you think so?" "You are too noisily gay not to be profoundly melancholy." "And that anomaly astonishes you?"
'I know you love me, and I trust you. 'Then have no fear; I will come back. My journey was only dangerous because I wanted to die. I want to live now, and I shall live. 'Oh, Alec, Alec, I'm so glad you love me. Outside in the street the bells of the motor 'buses tinkled noisily, and there was an incessant roar of the traffic that rumbled heavily over the wooden pavements.
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