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I don’t know where Therese was but I am sure that this voice reached her, terrible, as if clamouring to heaven, and with a shrill over-note which made me certain that if she was in bed the only thing she would think of doing would be to put her head under the bed-clothes. With a final yell: “Come down and see,” he flew back at the door of the room and started shaking it violently.
The over-note to the clamour an uncanny thing too is the soft rustle-down of the tea itself stacked in heaps, carried in baskets, dumped through chutes, rising and falling in the long troughs where it is polished, and disappearing at last into the heart of the firing-machine always this insistent whisper of moving dead leaves.
It was a provoking, mocking peal, with a hair-raising, screeching over-note of defiance. I stepped back, utterly confounded. Instantly there was a stir on the quarter-deck; murmurs of dismay. A distressed voice cried out in the dark below us: "Who's that gone crazy, now?" Perhaps they thought it was their captain?
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