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I cried, for I saw Hilda's hands giving way a second time, and I was anxious to spare her. "No, thank you," she answered low, but in a voice that was full of suppressed defiance. "I will wait and hear this out. I PREFER to stop here." As for Sebastian, he seemed now not to notice her, though I was aware all the time of a sidelong glance of his eye, parrot-wise, in her direction.
When this delusion was dispelled, he noted with chagrin that the spoils of Egypt had departed, taking with them some plenty of real money. That was the turning-point. By midnight he was hoarse with repeating, parrot-wise, "That's good give me another stack." His persistent losses won him sympathy, even from these hardened plungers.
Overhead, the cabman not merely a cabman, but an individual flicked the flanks of his horse, and cocked his eye and head in answer to gesticulations from shop-doors and pavement. "Let 'em fight it out, I'm impartial," he remarked; and having lifted his little observing door, and given one glance, parrot-wise, below, he shut away the troubled prospect of those mortals, and drove along benignly.
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